{"id":498,"date":"2026-07-02T14:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=498"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:54:11","slug":"laura-pickell","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/people\/laura-pickell\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Pickell"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laura Pickell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Carleton University. With more than 17 years of experience in higher education, her work focuses on experiential learning, community&nbsp;engagement&nbsp;and evidence-informed teaching innovation. She has developed&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;in partnership development, curriculum renewal, collaborative strategic&nbsp;planning&nbsp;and inclusive engagement practices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pickell&#8217;s teaching and scholarship emphasize authentic and reciprocal partnerships that connect students with community organizations, schools,&nbsp;hospitals&nbsp;and other external partners through applied and community-based learning experiences. Through these initiatives, she&nbsp;seeks&nbsp;to enhance student learning while encouraging students to engage meaningfully with the communities around them. Pickell&#8217;s work also includes undergraduate research initiatives, health technology assessment partnerships, experiential learning&nbsp;programs&nbsp;and science outreach activities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pickell has played an active role in institutional strategic initiatives, including contributing to Carleton University\u2019s first Strategic Plan for Community Engagement. Her research and teaching interests are grounded in the belief that strong partnerships create meaningful opportunities for learning,&nbsp;collaboration&nbsp;and community impact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through Pickell&#8217;s work in teaching,\u00a0scholarship\u00a0and strategic planning, she contributes\u00a0expertise\u00a0in experiential education, community-engaged learning and partnership development that supports long-term institutional and community goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":499,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Laura","cu_people_last_name":"Pickell","cu_people_initials":"LP","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[40],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-498","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-community-engagement-partnerships"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor (Department of Health Sciences)","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/498\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}