Simon Power
2022 TLS Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant
The Determinants of Academic Dishonesty
This grant provides funding for Carleton’s instructors to engage in systematic, evidence-based, scholarly investigations of all aspects of teaching an learning in a post-secondary context.
Professor Power received this grant to fund an initial investigation into the factors that appear to influence academic dishonesty. This is the first part of a longer-term project on the economic modelling of academic dishonesty.
2019 FPA Teaching Fellowship Award
This award provides full-time FPA faculty and instructors an opportunity to innovate and demonstrate leadership in teaching, as well as to reward teaching excellence. The Fellowship is awarded on the basis of a candidate’s teaching record and on a project proposal focused on teaching innovation.
Professor Power received the fellowship for his proposal to use popular culture in the teaching of introductory Economics.
“The committee particularly noted Simon’s impressive commitment to teaching and, as one member noted, his [evident] gift for conveying complex ideas,” said Professor Mendeloff.
“Receiving the FPA Teaching Fellowship further reinvigorated my long-standing passion for teaching, which is, after all, the very raison d’être of the university,” says Power. “Good teaching does not simply involve the transmission of knowledge, perhaps even more importantly it also opens new doors, fosters creativity, expands horizons, nurtures resilience, and underpins the foundations of our great liberal society.”