Leadership, Policy and Governance Academics
Explore our academics in Leadership, Policy and Governance and their areas of research expertise
Sarah Eaton - Specialization Chair
- Higher education administration and leadership
- Action research
- Bilingual/second language education
- Building capacity of online educators
- Educational administration and leadership
![Amy Burns](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/AmyBurns.jpg?itok=yEYcMafO)
Amy Burns
- Case study research
- Critical discourse analysis
- Educational administration and leadership
- Educational policy
- Female leadership
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Nadia Delanoy
![James Kent Donlevy](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/JamesKentDonlevy%20.jpg?itok=IV_IaXo6)
James Kent Donlevy
- Constitutional, human rights and educational law
- Ethics in leadership
- Leadership in educational administration
- Catholic education
![Sharon Friesen](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-01/SharonFriesen.jpeg?itok=9rqBRIkt)
Sharon Friesen
- Technology-enhanced learning environments
- Educational reform and policy
- Design based research
- Educational leadership
- Mathematics teaching and learning
![Dianne Gereluk](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/DianneGereluk.jpg?itok=g_bTlwAs)
Dianne Gereluk
- Civic education
- Educational reform and policy
- Philosophy and strategies of school reform
- Policy development
- Diversity
![Eugene Kowch photo](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-01/eugene-kowch.jpeg?itok=kOVjsYeF)
Eugene G. Kowch
- Educational administration and leadership
- Complexity research in education
- Curriculum and instruction
- Organizational theory
- Educational reform and policy
![Aliya Kuzhabekova](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2024-04/aliya-kuzhabekova.png?itok=64h-x_x2)
Aliya Kuzhabekova
![Brittany Harker Martin](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-06/britt-martin.jpeg?itok=gjh7D5yb)
Brittany Harker Martin
- Socially empowered learning
- Arts education
- Service-learning
- Organizational resistance to change
- Innovation adoption
![Stephen MacGregor photo](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2024-04/stephen-macgregor.jpg?itok=2tpPR7tQ)
Stephen MacGregor
- Educational administration and leadership
- Educational reform and policy
- Network theory and analysis
- Knowledge mobilization
- Research impact
![Donald Scott](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-06/donald-scott.jpeg?itok=k0awJ21M)
Donald Scott
- Educational administration and leadership
- Principal preparation
- Organizational learning
- Higher education administration and leadership
- Teaching and learning methods
![Shelleyann Scott](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-06/shelleyann-scott.jpeg?itok=dj-Vj4ty)
Shelleyann Scott
- Educational administration and leadership
- Higher education administration and leadership
- Leadership development
- Capacity building of individuals and organizations
- Professional development
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Brenda Spencer
- Educational reform and policy
- Critical discourse analysis
- Sociology of education
- Social justice and equity in education
- Leadership in educational administration
![Shirley R. Steinberg](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2021-06/shirley-steinberg-profile_0.jpg?itok=66Lrmfe_)
Shirley R. Steinberg
- Critical Pedagogy and Social Justice
- Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Anti-racism, Islamophobia
- Critical Qualitative Research
- Youth Studies, Leadership, and Community Activism
- Women in Leadership
![Ian Winchester](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/IanWinchester.jpg?itok=8egfU2mL)
Ian Winchester
- Cognitive science
- Theory/philosophy of higher education
- Literacy
- Science education
- Theory of knowledge