About the Event
In this panel-style webinar, the 2024-25 BCcampus Research Fellows TRU Research Team will provide an overview of their large, mixed-method studies examining student experiences of inclusion and intercultural learning at a B.C. post-secondary institution. Panelists will focus on how students exercise power through narratives that resonate with, or actively resist, colonial, patriarchal, and White supremacist ideologies. They will also discuss the importance of developing empirically–grounded recommendations for inclusive pedagogical innovations, evaluating the impact of such learning opportunities, and creating safer, more equitable, and just campus environments.
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About the Facilitators
The TRU Research Team will be joined by three student Research Assistants: Mara Nanaman, Mamathashree Yogananda, and Bisi Ale-Olorunfemi.
Kyra Garson is an Intercultural Coordinator at TRU. Her professional and service roles focus on enhancing intercultural understanding and inclusion through learning and teaching, institutional initiatives, and engagement. Her research interests include the impacts and outcomes of internationalization, intercultural learning, and critical and inclusive pedagogies.
Amie McLean is a sociologist, writer, educator, and parent whose academic interests are equity and social justice issues in Canadian post-secondary education and work. Her perspective is rooted in anti-racist, anti-colonial feminist thought, with an expanding focus on disability justice. As an intercultural coordinator at TRU, she works in a collaborative and pan-institutional capacity to educate, advocate, and work in the service of equity, inclusion, intercultural engagement, and (un)learning.
Alana Hoare is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Education at TRU. Her academic interests focus on ethical leadership and culturally responsive governance and planning in higher education—specifically, the role of cultures and epistemologies and their influence on educational systems. Previously, Alana taught English language learners and in elementary school. She also spent nearly a decade as a Quality Assurance Scholar-Practitioner and maintains a research program in this field.
Anila Virani is an Assistant Professor in the TRU School of Nursing. She has over twenty years of diverse experience in health care and research. Her research interests include exploring and incorporating technology in improving health and education.