SoTL Grant Recipients

2023-24

Manjeet Birk (Feminist Institute of Social Transformation). Project: Integrating Virtual Reality in problem-based learning for critical race studies classrooms.
Mirella Veras (Department of Health Sciences). Project: Learning experience of health science students with artificial intelligence (ChatGPT).
Emily Hiltz (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Assessing program learning objectives through co-op experiences.
Christian Viau (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering). Project: Analysis of the student experience in Canadian post-secondary STEM programs – through the lens of the LGBTQI2S+ community.
Amanda van Beinum & Joanis Sherry (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: Interdisciplinary co-teaching as a sustainable model for health humanities pedagogy.

2022-23

Audrey Girouard (School of Information Technology) and Jin Kang (Creative Interaction Lab). Project: Designing a chatbot to support social interaction of STEM undergraduate students who are blind and low vision.
Peter Coffman (School for Studies in Art and Culture). Project: Developing a blended, thematically-based third-year course on Canadian architecture.
Elena Zabolotnii (lead), Paul Simms, Shoeleh Shams, Christian Viau (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), and Kahente Horn-Miller (AVP, Indigenous Teaching, Learning, and Research). Project: Engineering training for work affecting Indigenous communities: First Indigenous Knowledge Bundle for CEE.
Troy Anderson (Sprott School of Business). Project: VR initiative for entrepreneurship project with youth in Northern community.
Patricia Audette-Longo (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Forced change: pandemic pedagogy and journalism education.
Simon Power (Department of Economics). Project: The determinants of academic dishonesty.
Ilyan Ferrer (School of Social Work), Conely de Leon (Toronto Metropolitan University). Project: Exploring the potential of digital storytelling for social justice in postgraduate learning.
David Hornsby (Norman Patterson School of International Affairs), Pamela Nichols (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Katie Bryant (Mangosuthu University of Technology, South Africa). Project: Pandemic possibilities: Investigating the effect of COVID-19 on helping students learn how to write in universities in Canada and South Africa, to identify fungible strategies and foster improved collaborations between Canadian and African higher education institutions.
Leighann C. Neilson (Sprott School of Business). Project: Exploring the learning and teaching experiences of graduate students from equity seeking groups in management education.

2021-22

Fateme Rajabiyazdi (Department of Systems and Computer Engineering). Project: Critical reflections on teaching data visualizations to students with engineering backgrounds.
Paloma Raggo (School of Public Policy and Administration) and Sylvie Babadjide (Teaching and Learning Services). Project: How to survive and thrive teaching online: essential strategies that work in a pinch.
Kim Hellemans (Department of Neuroscience) and Zachary Patterson (Department of Neuroscience). Project: The impact of compassionate grading and instruction on student stress and academic achievement.
Brenda Morris (School of Social Work), Louise Whitaker (Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Australia), and Melissa Petrakis (Monash University, Australia). Project: International perspectives on teaching mental health social work.
Elena Zabolotnii (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Paul Simms (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), and Kahente Horn-Miller (School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies). Project: Engineering training for work affecting Indigenous communities.
Bruce Burlton (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) and Hooman Jazebizadeh (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Project: Experiential learning activities related to satellite ground station design and operation for Aerospace Engineering students.
Ishara Mahat (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: Understanding students’ learning perspectives and effectiveness of different pedagogies.
Sujit Sur (Sprott School of Business). Project: Soft skills and virtual teams.
Melanie Adrian (Department of Law and Legal Studies). Project: Making multiple-choice meaningful: a collaborative approach to testing.

2020-21

Augustine Park (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: Exploring the experiences of Black, Indigenous and Racialized graduate students in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Melissa Chee (Department of Neuroscience). Project: Experiential learning via in-class experiment to teach scientific writing in journal article format.
Aneurin Bosley (School of Journalism and Communication). Project: Building trust in Journalism.
Ali Arya (School of Information Technology). Project: Virtual reality-based STEM learning spaces.
Paulo Garcia (Department of Systems and Computer Engineering). Project: Effectiveness of layered learning tools in online engineering education (Stage two).
Sean Landsman (Interdisciplinary Science and Practice). Project: Comparing the effectiveness of textbook, news article, and comic in communicating scientific concepts to increase undergraduate science literacy.
Zachary Patterson (Department of Neuroscience). Project: How mode of learning influences mental wellness and academic success – on-campus versus online.

2019-20

Mustafa Bahran and Alain Bellerive (Department of Physics). Project: A measurement and assessment of the effectiveness of the lab component of the introductory physics courses.
Samuel McCready (Department of History). Project: Re-thinking history teaching: historical making and learning in digital culture.
Sophie Tamas (Department of Geography and Environmental Studies/School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies). Project: Imposter syndrome: the impact of academic (in)security.
Kim Hellemans, Kim Matheson, Hymie Anisman (Department of Neuroscience), Robyn McQuaid (Royal Ottawa Hospital), and Larry McCloskey (Paul Menton Centre). Project: Investigating student mental health and resilience: relationship to current stressors and biomarkers of immune function and stress reactivity.
Paulo Garcia (Department of Systems and Computer Engineering). Project: Effectiveness of layered learning tools in engineering education.

2018-19

Kenta Asakura, and Sarah Todd (School of Social Work). Project: Evaluating artificial intelligence (AI)-based simulation in teaching social work practices
Lois Frankel, and Claudie St. Arnold (School of Industrial Design). Project: Sensory design learning resources – the sense-it kit.
Ernest Kwan (Sprott School of Business), Yan Liu (UBC), and Irene Lu (Sprott School of Business). Project: Vector plot: A tool for teaching statistics.
Kim Hellemans (Department of Neuroscience). Project: Exploring academic buoyancy among university students: A literature review.
Martha Mullally (Department of Biology). Project: Virtual reality, perception and learning: Development of a virtual reality experience to increase student conceptual understanding of transcriptional regulation.
Pamela Walker (Department of History). Project: Women’s suffrage Reacting to the Past game.
Shermeen Nizami (Department of Health Science). Project: Using evidence-based practice (EBP) learning outcomes to prepare undergraduate and graduate health science students for professional and academic practice.
Tonya Davidson (Department of Sociology and Anthropology). Project: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and SOCI 1001: Re-designing the curriculum.
Audrey Girouard (School of Information Technology). Project: Furthering ubiquitous computing education.

Presentations related to university teaching and pedagogy

Zachary Colbert (Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism). Showcasing the work of two graduate architecture studios conducted at Carleton University that engage imaginative solutions for non-visual architecture, 2019 DARKNESS conference.
Tracy Hodgson-Drysdale (School of Linguistics and Language Studies). Presentations about teaching science writing and teacher as SFL researcher, 45th International Systemic Functional Congress 2018.
Nandini Sarma (Department of French). Presentation about virtual learning environment, 2018 WorldCall conference.
Audrey Girouard (School of Information Technology). Workshop on “Ubiquitous computing education”, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics.

2017-18

Melanie Adrian (Department of Law and Legal Studies), and Elspeth McCulloch (EDC). Project: Multiple-choice exams: An opportunity for active learning.
Kevin Hamdan (Department of Geography and Environmental Studies). Project: The effects of using mobile classroom response system on students’ engagement and performance.

Presentations related to university teaching and pedagogy

Peggy Hartwick (School of Linguistics and Language Studies). Presentation about cuPortfolio integration in teaching, 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning.
Shermeen Nizami (Department of Systems and Computer Engineering). Presentation on “integrated information rich engineering course design”, 2017 Annual Conference of the International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.