Faculty Associates
In Memoriam
Anne Marie Ryan, PhD
1955-2022
Anne Marie was a University Teaching Fellow in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at AV¾ãÀÖ²¿, Faculty Associate for the Centre of Learning and Teaching, the President of the Atlantic Geoscience Society, and a 3M National Teaching Fellow,
CLT Faculty Associates are faculty members who have a passion for teaching and learning and who seek to take on an educational leadership role at AV¾ãÀÖ²¿.
Faculty Associates champion teaching and learning initiatives, projects, or interests that resonate both with them personally and with the specific disciplinary teaching needs of their Faculty or our wider university community. ÌýThey may also engage in leading some CLT programs and services.Ìý In this way, Associates provide additional depth and connection to the work of the Centre and can be supported where necessary by the CLT team and other Faculty Associates.
CLT Faculty Associates provide a conduit between the central unit of the Centre for Learning and Teaching and the teaching and learning endeavours within their Faculty or beyond.Ìý As an informal advisory group, Associates are well-positioned to inform the work of CLT by conveying the teaching and learning needs of a Faculty to CLT, while CLT is able to share Centre activities with them to increase opportunities for other faculty to learn about CLT services and about institutional policies and procedures.
For more information about the CLT Faculty Associates, please contactÌýSuzanne Le-May Sheffield, Executive Director (Acting), Centre for Learning and Teaching: Suzanne.Le-May.Sheffield@dal.ca.
CLT LIAISON
 Lindsay McNiff, MA, MIÌýLearning & Instruction Librarian AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Libraries Email: lindsay.mcniff@dal.ca Phone: 902-494-4460 |
FACULTY ASSOCIATES
Dr. Rebecca Affoo is a Speech-Language Pathologist and an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the Faculty of Health. She is passionate about the scholarship of teaching and learning and implementing evidence-based education. |
 Christian Blouin, PhDAssoc. Professor Centre for Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics Faculty of Computer Science AND Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Email: cblouin@cs.dal.ca Tel: 902-494-6702 Dr. Christian Blouin is an associate professor in the and in the . He is assisting Faculties, Schools and program directors to build curriculum maps. His work on curriculum mapping has given him the opportunity to work with a wide range of discipline, and help devise many plans to collect curricula information from a large number of instructors. |
 Kim BrooksProfessor of Law Schulich School of Law kim.brooks@dal.ca Phone: 902-494-7112 |
Marion Brown is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work and Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Health, responsible for strategic leadership and support for program and curriculum development, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement for academic and scholarly innovation; initiatives related to the scholarship of teaching and learning including faculty development; and project lead for operationalization of university policy on Holistic Evaluation of Teaching. All of this she integrates into theÌýGrowing the Garden of Teaching & Learning in the Faculty of HealthÌýcommunity of practice.ÌýShe is the 2024 recipient of the AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Alumni Association Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. |
Laura Cumming is an Accounting Lecturer in the Faculty of Management.Ìý She has recently formed a Teaching Community of Practice in the FoM to encourage faculty to work together to address teaching and learning challenges and improve teaching quality.Ìý Laura’s service activities within the Rowe School of Business include curriculum mapping for CPA Canada’s Professional Education Program, hosting teaching workshops, and sitting on a rapid task force to improve teaching quality.Ìý She believes in the importance of experiential learning and strives to provide her students with opportunities to extend their learning with real world experiences. |
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 Joy Galloway-Jones, M.A. EdInstructor, Faculty of Agriculture Manager of WIL Programs, Educational Change Facilitator & WUSC Advisor Email: Joy.Galloway-Jones@dal.ca Ìý |
Dr. Gillian Gass is a University Teaching Fellow in the Department of Biology. She has many interests in science education that relate to her background in biology and the history of science, including the nature of science, conceptual change, accessibility, explanation, and laboratory and online learning. She has organized reading groups and workshops on teaching and learning, and enjoys talking about teaching with colleagues within science and beyond. |
Dr. Clifton Johnston is an Associate Professor and NSERC Chair in Design Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering. His research is in the area of cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sports engineering and design theory, practice and education. Dr. Johnston is President of the Canadian Engineering Education Association. |
Dr. Poitras is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at AV¾ãÀÖ²¿. He is a learning scientist for the Faculty's Computer Science Education Research cluster initiative. His work focuses on introductory programming skills acquisition and the role of self-regulation in problem solving with technology-rich learning environments.Ìý |
 Raghav V. Sampangi, PhDInstructor | Faculty of Computer Science Email:Ìýraghav@cs.dal.ca Phone: 902-494-7849 |
Laurel Schut is an Instructor at the College of Sustainability, teaching within the interdisciplinary Environment, Sustainability and Society program. She teaches undergraduate courses focused on food systems and sustainability, conflict management, and environmental decision making. Her service activities within the College include hosting an annual curriculum workshop, co-developing undergraduate sustainability certificate offerings, and holistic curriculum mapping for the Environment, Sustainability and Society program. Laurel is also a Member at Large on AV¾ãÀÖ²¿â€™s Academic Quality Team (AQT). With an interest in exploring the connections (and tensions) between faculty wellbeing and teaching effectiveness, Laurel’s contributions as a CLT Faculty Associate focus on teaching and wellbeing. |
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In addition to his teaching endeavors in biochemical education, Shawn is also actively and collaboratively conducting educational research in the areas of case-based learning, students as partners, technology-informed pedagogy, and decolonization in science education. As a member of CLT faculty associates, Shawn is interested in supporting the center’s efforts in SoTL research development and communication, as well as fostering evidence-based teaching and learning practices in his home faculty, Medicine. Shawn is always passionate in chatting about teaching and learning related topics. |
Rebecca H. Affoo, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, SLP-Reg, SLP(C) (She/Her/Hers)
Marion Brown, PhD, RSW (she/her)
Laura Cumming, CA, CPA, MBA, BEd
Karen Gallant, PhD
Gillian Gass, PhD
Clifton Johnston, PhD
Eric Poitras, PhD (he/him)
Laurel Schut (she/her)
Jennifer van Dommelen, PhD
Shawn Xiong, PhD (he/him)Ìý