Andrea Webb
Dr. Andrea Webb spent a decade as a high school teacher before returning to higher education as a teacher educator. Her research interests lie in teaching and learning in higher education and she is involved in research projects related to Threshold concepts, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and Social Studies Teacher Education. Currently, Dr. Webb is part of a multinational SSHRC-funded project, Narrative Art & Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education.
Terra Poirier
Terra Poirier is an interdisciplinary artist, research communicator, and M.Ed. student in the EDST ALE program. She works with photography, graphic narrative, and print media to explore memory, community, labour, and erasure. Terra’s book, Non-Regular: Precarious academic labour at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (UNIT/PITT, 2018), created with 26 instructors, received extensive media attention and has been presented in exhibitions, classrooms, and research contexts. Her work has been exhibited at the Polygon Gallery, Bainbridge Island Art Museum, Presentation House Gallery, and grunt gallery’s Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, and her award-winning short films have screened locally and internationally. Terra worked in public scholarship for almost two decades as a research communicator at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Althea Thauberger
Professor Althea Thauberger is an artist, filmmaker and educator known for place-based experimental documentary projects that emerge from collaborative research and production processes. Her work—spanning photography, film, video, and performance—explores relationships between community stories and geopolitical histories. She was born in Saskatoon, and is of settler Scandinavian and Black Sea German descent.
Prof. Thauberger’s recent exhibitions include the Kaunas Biennial (2021); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2020); The Toronto Biennial of Art (2019), The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2019); The National Gallery of Canada (2019); La musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2017), and the inaugural Karachi Biennale 2017.