Dr. Glenda L. Black is a Professor at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario. In the graduate program, she teaches courses related to educational leadership and adult learning. In the teacher education program, she teaches curriculum inquiry (action research), curriculum design and assessment courses. Prior to her arrival at Nipissing University, she was a classroom teacher and school administrator. Glenda’s research interests are in international teaching practicums, indigenous education, curriculum development, and of course action research.
Past President & Editor of CJAR
Dr. Kurt Clausen, Professor at the Faculty of Education at Nipissing University, has acted as editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Action Research for the past 20 years, publishing nearly 50 issues. He was the founder and first president of the Canadian Association of Action Research in Education (CAARE) in 2014. He and Glenda Black co-edited CAARE's flagship polygraph The Future of Action Research in Education: A Canadian Perspective for McGill-Queen's University Press in 2020.
Vice President - Program Chair
Lincoln Smith is a doctoral candidate and a sessional lecturer in the department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Current research focuses on holistic, collaborative, and teacher-driven approaches to teacher learning, and accessibility and equity in teacher education. He is also a full-time K-12 educator with almost two decades of experience working in public and private schools both in Canada and internationally. His school-based work focuses on student support, teacher research, and pedagogical development.
Secretary & Treasurer
Dr. Sunny Man Chu Lau, Full Professor at Bishop’s University in Quebec, is Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Integrated Plurilingual Teaching and Learning. She specializes in critical literacies, literature and language teaching, teaching English as a second language, plurilingual pedagogy, and participative-based research methodologies. Disrupting the university-school and theory-practice divides, Dr. Lau pioneers participative action research studies on cross-language and cross-curricular teacher collaborations to promote not only mobilization of languages for knowledge-construction but also metalinguistic and metacultural awareness for critical literacies education. She is co-editor for Critical Inquiry for Language Studies.
Communications Director
Dr. Manu Sharma is an Associate Professor at Thompson Rivers University in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, where she teaches foundational courses in the Masters of Education program. Dr. Sharma has previously taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses and supported field placements at University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Brock University, University of Toronto, and University of Windsor; in addition, she worked for the Toronto District School Board and in international settings as a public educator. Her research interests and publications in the field of education are based on equity initiatives, teacher development, social justice pedagogy, deficit thinking, and international teaching experiences.
Graduate Student Representative
April est enseignante d’anglais au niveau cégep au Québec et aussi un PhD Candidate at McGill University in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Her research is heavily informed by her expériences as a teacher, puis ses approches pédagogiques sont influencées par sa passion pour la recherche. She is currently interested in studying the interaction between translingual approaches to teaching creative writing in academic spaces et la bonification des identités multilingues.
Conference Proceedings Committee Members
Dr. Sunny Man Chu Lau, Full Professor at Bishop’s University in Quebec, is Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Integrated Plurilingual Teaching and Learning. She specializes in critical literacies, literature and language teaching, teaching English as a second language, plurilingual pedagogy, and participative-based research methodologies. Disrupting the university-school and theory-practice divides, Dr. Lau pioneers participative action research studies on cross-language and cross-curricular teacher collaborations to promote not only mobilization of languages for knowledge-construction but also metalinguistic and metacultural awareness for critical literacies education. She is co-editor for Critical Inquiry for Language Studies.