Profiles

Nausheen Shafiq

Nausheen has several years of experience training faculty and establishing curriculum and courses with a focus on ESL programs. Recently, she has been working with program re-accreditation, institutional effectiveness and quality assurance for programs in several disciplines while also teaching at a university in the United Arab Emirates. She strives to find ways to continually […]

Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks provides academic leadership to the CTLT to help guide the centre in supporting teaching and learning development, practice, and evaluation across UBC Vancouver. In addition, she holds a faculty position as Professor of Teaching in the Department of Philosophy at UBC Vancouver. Christina’s scholarly interests and work include the Scholarship of Teaching and […]

Trish Varao-Sousa

Trish supports the design and implementation of teaching and learning research and evaluation projects across campus and assists in the co-ordination of the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Trish has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of British Columbia where she studied how different learning environments influence attention and retention.

Adriana Briseño-Garzón

Adriana leads CTLT’s research and evaluation activities in alignment with the university’s strategic priorities. She manages the implementation of the activities and services of the Institute of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISOTL) and works collaboratively with faculty members, staff and graduate research assistants supporting their engagement with scholarly activities related to teaching and […]

Roselynn Verwoord

In her role as Learning Design and Curriculum Consultant, Roselynn provides leadership in the design and development of curriculum and related courses and materials. In collaboration with departments and units, Roselynn helps identify curriculum needs, consults on how to address these needs, and oversees related curriculum projects through implementation and evaluation. Roselynn has several years […]

Zoe Morris

Zoe Morris

Carissa Block – II

My first home was on a boat anchored in the waters of the Taíno people (St. John, USVI), but I spent most of my childhood on the lands and waters of the Suquamish people (Bainbridge Island, WA). After high school I moved north to xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territory in 2014 to study at UBC. I, a […]

Lauren Casey

Haala ḵaats’ii, I am Haida and Cree-Metis. My paternal family is registered with Skidegate of the Haida Nation, of the Juus Clan from the Youngs and Collinsons. My maternal family are of mixed settler and Red River Metis descent. Our family names include Desmarais, Clermont, and Delorme. I lived on the lands of the Katzie, […]

Hannah Coderre

I was born and raised in Treaty 8, in Northern Alberta and I am of Métis and mixed European settler heritage. My paternal Métis family is originally from Lac La Biche, Treaty 6. I now live on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səl̓ilwətaɬ Nations with my little family. I am […]

Renata Hall

I am a second-generation cis-gendered Black, and queer, Toronto Born settler with Ghanian and Indigenous Guyanese (Amerindian-Akawaio) ancestry. I have lived most of my life in the Greater Toronto Area, the unceded land and territory of the Mississauga’s, Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg. I am honored to join the team and further grateful for the opportunity to […]