Centre CV

As the University of Alberta Centre for Teaching and Learning, we embody and are committed to lifelong learning, unlearning, and relearning as well as to the continued academic, personal, and professional development of not just our U of A instructors but of ourselves, too. As part of the U of A teaching and learning community, we partner with instructors and programs to develop engaging and meaningful learning experiences for students by inspiring, empowering, modeling, and connecting excellent teaching across our campuses and beyond - and we do this, in part, by sharing our expertises with our friends, peers, and colleagues all locally, provincially, nationally, inter-nationally, and globally.

Our team members' scholarly contributions and educational research advance the evidence-informed pedagogies and practices that undergird CTL’s work. Across 2021-2023, CTL team members, individually and collectively, have delivered 23 invited keynotes, talks, panels, and presentations; published 26 pieces (including 9 peer-reviewed pieces: 1 book, 3 articles, and 5 chapters); presented at 26 academic conferences; and have been featured in the news and media 10 times.

Keynotes and Invited Talks, Panels, Presentations
  • Bahadur, M., Mayberry, T., & Tanchuk, N. (2023, March). Tenure is not the only track: Marketing your skills for teaching and learning careers. Teaching Assistants’ Training Program (TATP) Panel, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. [Panelist]
  • Glanfield, F., Hamdon, E., Maybery, T., & Penney, M. (2022, November). Leadership, Indigenization, decolonization, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Leading Others: Inclusive Leadership. Organizational Development, Human Resources, Health, Safety and Environment (HRHSE), University of Alberta. [Panel Developers and Invited Panelists]
  • Hamdon, E. & Mayberry, T. (2023, April). EDI and teaching awards - (in)equity in adjudication: Approaches to (and challenges of) addressing bias and structural inequity in adjudication practices. Awards for Faculty Excellence Adjudication Committee, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • Igobwa, E. & Mayberry, T. (2022, October). Principles of gender inclusivity. MD Program, College of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, PreClerkship Coordinators Committee Meeting. 
  • Mayberry, T. (2021, September). Gender pronouns, teaching and learning, and cultures of respect. School of Dentistry Keynote, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. 
  • Mayberry, T. (2021, October). Gender pronouns and cultures of respect. Unmuting generation Z - Canadian Student Leadership Conference (CSLC) 2021, Keynote, Guelph, ON.
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, January). Visual pedagogies: teaching can be a real drag (show). Research Fridays @ Intersections of Gender. University of Alberta, Edmonton, ON. 
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, March). Critical pedagogies and critical whiteness: Why, and how, a white academic drag queen is doing Critical Race Theory. Library Speaker Series, University of Alberta, Edmonton, ON. 
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, April). Research/creation in the transgender visual culture classroom: Using experimental assignments. Critical crafting in and beyond humanities classrooms: 19th-century material culture and 21st-century open pedagogy. A SSHRC-funded Public Research Series, Co-Investigators Andrea Korda, Mary Elizabeth Leighton, and Vanessa Warne, Critical Crafting Session: Embellishment [Scholarly teaching presentation]
  • Mayberry T. (2022, May). Gender pronouns and creating cultures of respect. Region of Waterloo Library (RWL) Spring Programming, Region of Waterloo Library, Kitchener, ON. 
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, September). What the heck is intersectionality? EDII Employee Resource Group Speaker Series, University of Alberta, Edmonton, ON. 
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, November). Gender pronouns and cultures of respect. Business Communication Keynote, Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario, London, ON.
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, November). Gender pronouns and cultures of respect. Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. (Academic Teaching Staff focus)
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, December). Gender pronouns and cultures of respect. Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. (Non-Academic Teaching Staff focus)
  • Mayberry, T. (2023, February). Gender pronouns and cultures of respect. Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON.
  • Mayberry, T. (2023, March). Confessions of an ‘EDI killjoy’: Just acronyms...or academic justice? Pearson Education Keynote, Leading in Learning: A Pearson Lunch, Learn, & Meet Webinar Series, Pearson, Canada. [Morning Session – Pacific Time]
  • Mayberry, T. (2023, March). Confessions of an ‘EDI killjoy’: Just acronyms...or academic justice? Pearson Education Keynote, Leading in Learning: A Pearson Lunch, Learn, & Meet Webinar Series, Pearson, Canada. [Morning Session – Eastern Time]
  • Mayberry, T. (2023, March). Gender pronouns and cultures of respect. Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. (Tenured-Faculty focus)
  • Mayberry, T. (2023, June). Confessions of an ‘EDI killjoy’: Just acronyms...or academic justice?” Faculty Development Summer 2023 Workshop, Department of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Saint John Campus, Saint John, NB.
  • Mayberry, T. (2023, June). Confessions of an ‘EDI killjoy’: Just acronyms...or academic justice? NEOS Library Consortium Keynote, MacEwan University and The King’s University, Edmonton, AB.
  • Mayberry, T. (2023, June). You ain’t ‘scared’ of me...you hate me: An academic drag queen's CRT-informed response to today's dragphobia and transphobia. ADR Institute of Alberta (ADRIA) 2023 Annual General Meeting, Westin Hotel Downtown Calgary, Calgary, AB.
  • Morrison, A., Shiri, A., Aziz, B., & Penney, M. (2023, May). FoTL Closing Keynote Jointly with ACURIT: AI and Education Keynote Conversation, Traditions re-imagined: Learning, unlearning, and relearning teaching, Festival of Teaching and Learning, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy and Zoom, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Penney, M. (2022, April). Drag Race pedagogy and communities of care in teaching and learning spaces. Research Fridays @ Intersections of Gender. University of Alberta, Edmonton, ON.
Courses Developed and/or Taught
  • Bhalla, M. & Menard, A. (2022, Spring). In search of reconciliation through dispute resolution. Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, ON.
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, Winter). Drag and trans- visual cultures and rhetorics. Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, February). Gender pronouns for science communication. Science Communication Certificate. Royal Canada Institute for Science (RCIScience). Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Online content module. Available online: Certificate Modules [Module 8]
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, February). The mentorship relationship. Graduate Supervision Development Program. Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. Online content module.
  • Menard, A. (2022, Winter). Reconciliation and lawyers. Faculty of Law, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
  • Menard, A. (2023, Winter). Indigenous peoples and the criminal legal system. The Path: Your Journey through Indigenous Canada.The Canadian Bar Association, Alberta Branch. 
Publications
Conference Papers and Presentations
  • Afrin, S., Karki, C., Samboo, S., & Mayberry, T. (2023, February). Decolonizing the dissertation: Autoethnography, counterstory, and teaching queer. Concurrent Panel Session at CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) Annual Convention. Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL.
  • Ambury, B. (2022, August). Mirror, mirror: Criticality, personal narrative, and reflective teaching. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Braul, B. (2022, August). Organizing your online teaching environment and establishing your instructor presence. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Bryde, L. & Mayberry, T. (2022, March). RuPedadgogies of realness: RuPaul’s Drag Race and teaching and learning. Roundtable Session at NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 53rd Annual Convention. Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD.
  • Bryde, L., Mayberry, T., Fine, D., Joy, P., Kampouridou, V., Martin, R., Penney, M., & Workman, N. (2023, February). RuPedagogies of Realness, The roundtable edition!: A CCCC roundtable on teaching and learning with RuPaul's Drag Race and on pandemic publishing. Concurrent Roundtable Session at CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) Annual Convention. Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL.
  • Igobwa, E. (2022, August). What is EDI—and how can we weave EDI principles into our practice (learning and teaching)? Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Igobwa, E. (2023, May). Rethinking the sage on the stage: Reinventing our pedagogy by learning, unlearning & relearning in a good way. Traditions re-imagined: Learning, unlearning, and relearning teaching. Augustana Conference on Undergraduate Research and Innovative Teaching (ACURIT), University of Alberta, Camrose, AB.
  • Lemelin, C. (2021, August). Fostering civility, communication, and trust in synchronous Zoom classes online. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Lemelin, C. (2022, August). Educational leadership session: Planning and implementing departmental changes to programming and teaching practices. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Mayberry, T. (2021, August). Assessing our students’ metacognition and critical reflection. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, March). Gender pronouns, teaching and learning, and cultures of respect. Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 53rd Annual Convention. Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD.  
  • McNutt, K. (2021, August). How can CTL's resources help you reflect? Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Menard, A. (2022, August). A call to action: Centring Indigenous methodologies and approaches Part 1. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Menard, A. (2022, August). A call to action: Centring Indigenous methodologies and approaches Part 2. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Menard, A. (2022, August). A call to action: Centring Indigenous methodologies and approaches Part 3. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Menard, A. (2022, October). Movie and sharing circle: Sisters in Spirit. Screening and community discussion of Highway of Tears. Centre for Teaching and Learning and Office of the Vice-Provost, Indigenous Programming and Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Parker, A. (2021, August). Effective pedagogy using new eClass tools. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Parker, A. (2022, August). Let's learn…hybridly!. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Parker, A. (2023, April). Teaching hybrid: Opportunities, considerations, and strategies. Conference on postsecondary learning and teaching, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
  • Parker, A., Stein, L., & Pate, A.G. (2021, August). Blended learning: What is my preferred blend? Merging COVID with post-COVID teaching. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Penney, M. (2022, August). Community conversation: Building meaningful relationships in your classroom. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Penney, M. & Lawless, K. (2022, May). Ungrading as critical pedagogy: Impacts on equity, agency, and learning in the university classroom. Spring Perspectives on Teaching Conference, Western University, London, ON.
  • Penney, M., Torbica, M., & Nord, J. (2023, May). Supporting student tutors in holistic and embodied ways. Unwriting the centre. Canadian Writing Centres Association, Zoom. 
  • Penney, M., Hock, K., Arunkumar, K., Kuang, Z., Scott, S., Lawless, K., & Power, M. (2023, May). Kindness and care in the realm of grading: Experiences with ungrading and specifications grading. Teaching and learning with kindness and care. University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning (UWTL) Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. [Panel Discussion].
  • Penney, M. & Sehmby, D. (2022, August). Mirror, mirror: Building reflective capacity in the contemporary classroom. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
  • Ward, J. (2021, August). Harnessing the hybrid classroom: Using Indigenous teaching praxis to increase student engagement. Online teaching institute, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
Reviewing for Journals and Conferences

Igobwa, Everett

  • Proposal Reviewer, Festival of Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, 2022

Parker, Anita

  • Proposal Reviewer, Festival of Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, 2022

Pate, Graeme

  • Proposal Reviewer, Festival of Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, 2023

Mayberry, Tommy

  • Proposal Reviewer (Round Two), CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) 2023
  • Reviewer, Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, “Posthuman Drag” Special Issue
  • Reviewer, Teaching, Learning & Assessment Across Disciplines: ICE Stories, OpenLibrary Book
  • Reviewer, STEM Fellowship Journal 

Sehmby, Dalbir

  • Proposal Reviewer, Festival of Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, 2023

Valgardson, Bradon

  • Proposal Reviewer, Festival of Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, 2022
Awards, Grants, and Distinctions
  • Bryde, L. & Mayberry, T.  2022 Bookseller/Diagram Prize, RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul’s Drag Race (McFarland, 2022) – Won
  • Bryde, L. & Mayberry, T.  2022 Bookseller/Diagram Prize, RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul’s Drag Race (McFarland, 2022) – Shortlisted (Top 6)
  • Menard, A. 2022 Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers, Canadian Lawyer Magazine – Won
  • Menard, A. 2023 Top 5 Most Influential Lawyers, CIO Magazine – Won
Committee Memberships and Service

Ambury, Brad

  • Member, Provost’s Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence and the Learning Environment, University of Alberta

Igobwa, Everett

  • Co-Lead, EDI Community of Practice & Care, Educational Developers Network of Alberta (EDNA)

Lemelin, Cosette

  • Chairperson, Educational Developers Network of Alberta (EDNA)
  • Board Member, Legal Education Society of Alberta (LESA)
  • Member, Alberta School of Business Dean Search Hiring Committee
  • Member, MacEwan Symposium for Teaching and Learning Steering Committee
  • Team Lead, Welcoming Newcomers Program (2022-2023), University of Alberta International

Mayberry, Tommy

  • Member, General Faculties Council (GFC) Committee on the Learning Environment (CLE), University of Alberta
  • Member, General Faculties Council (GFC) University Teaching Awards Committee (UTAC), University of Alberta
  • Member, Program Support Team (PST) (Undergraduate and Non-Credit), University of Alberta
  • Member, Centre Directors’ Community of Practice, Educational Development Community in Canada
  • Member, EDI Faculty Leads Committee, University of Alberta
  • Member, EDI Scoping Group Committee, University of Alberta
  • Member, Indigenous Knowledges Action Group (IKAG), Educational Developers Caucus/Educational Development Community in Canada, 2021-2023*
    • *IKAG formally came to a close in February 2023 with new leadership in place for the EDCC (Educational Development Community in Canada) and no longer a safe, productive home for Indigenous folks working across educational development in this nation now known as Canada
  • Invited Guest (and future Member) of GFC University Teaching Awards Committee (UTAC), University of Alberta (Winter 2023)
  • Mentor, NeMLA’s CV and Job Clinic, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 54th Annual Convention. The University at Buffalo. Niagara Falls, NY, 2023 
  • Hostess and MC for the Evening, CCCC’s Open Mic Night Drag Show, Doing Hope in Desperate Times, 2023 CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2023
  • Member, 2022 COVID-19 Remote Teaching Awards Adjudication Committee, University of Alberta
  • Internal Examiner, Economics Quality Assurance (QA) Process, University of Alberta
  • Founding Incorporator and Director, EDCC (Educational Development Community in Canada), 2021-2022*
    • *interim new organization for educational development across this nation colonially known as Canada; officially incorporated with Corporations Canada on February 11th, 2022 as 13766934 Canada Association; named by the community and voted upon in Fall 2022, at which time, we changed leadership
  • Vice-Chair, Communications, EDC (Educational Developers Caucus), Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), 2021-2021*
    • *elected by EDC Membership June 2021; then STLHE dissolved the EDC effective November 19th, 2021 

Menard, Andrea

  • Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Indigenous Lawyers' Forum
  • President and Founder, Indigenous Connect
  • Board Member, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Institute of Alberta (ADRIA)
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association's National Indigenous Advisory Group - Criminal Justice 
  • Member, Vice-Provost (Indigenous Programming and Research) Indigenous Advisory Committee
  • Member, Vice-Provost (Indigenous Programming and Research) Indigenous Research Strategy Task Force
  • Member, Faculty of Science Indigenization of the Bachelor of Science Committee
  • Invited Member, General Faculties Council (GFC) Committee on the Learning Environment (CLE)
  • Member, Indigenous Engagement Collective (Augustana Campus)
  • Member, Festival of Teaching and Learning Steering Committee

Penney, Mandy

  • Member, U of A Writing Services Director Hiring Committee
Conference Attendance
  • Ambury, B. (2022, October). Indigenizing the Japanese Language Curriculum: Lessons and Perspectives from Indigenous Voices, University of British Columbia, Zoom. [Workshop].
  • Ambury, B. (2022, October). #UngradingCon: Assessment for Equity, a free Twitter Conference. Twitter.
  • Ambury, B. (2022, November). A Virtual Institute for Alternative Assessment in Higher Education, Athabasca University, Zoom.
  • Ambury, B., Parker, A., Pate, A.G., & Penney, M. (2022, February). Educational Developers Caucus (EDC) Conference, University of Waterloo. 
  • Ambury, B., Ireland, L., Lemelin, C., Mayberry, T., Parker, A., Pate, A.G., & Penney, M. (2023, April). Educational Developers Network of Alberta (EDNA) Spring Meeting, Norquest College. 
  • Borger, C., Lai, L., Lindmark, K., Lucius, J., Pate, A.G., & Robertson, M. (2021, October). Adobe MAX - The Creativity Conference, Online.
  • Igobwa, E. (2023, May). Traditions Re-imagined: Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning Teaching. Augustana Conference on Undergraduate Research and Innovative Teaching (ACURIT), University of Alberta, Camrose, AB.
  • Igobwa, E., Lemelin, C., Mayberry, T., Parker, A., & Penney, M. (2022, October). Educational Developers Network of Alberta (EDNA) Fall Meeting, University of Lethbridge.
  • Lemelin, C. (2021, November). Evolving Beyond Crisis—Connecting to the Future. 46th Annual POD (Professional and Organization Development Network in Higher Education) Network Conference, Virtual.
  • Lindmark, K., Mayberry, T., & Parker A. (2021, September & October). ATLA Conference for Antiracist Teaching, Language, and Assessment, Oregon State University. 
  • Mayberry, T. (2022, March). Care. Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 53rd Annual Convention, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
  • Mayberry, T. (2023, March). resilience. Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 54th Annual Convention, University of Buffalo, SUNY, Niagara Falls, NY.
  • Mayberry, T. & Penney, M. (2023, February). Doing Hope in Desperate Times. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2023 Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
  • Menard, A. (2022, May). Mawachihitotaak (Let’s Get Together) Métis Symposium, Supporting Indigenous Sharing Network (SISN), Alberta.
  • Menard, A. (2022-2023). ii’ taa’poh’to’p Indigenous Knowledge Lecture Series, University of Calgary.
  • Menard, A. (2023, March). 1st Annual SILR Gathering (Supporting Indigenous Language Revitalization (SILR), Edmonton, Alberta. 
  • Menard, A. (2023, March). 2nd National Indigenous Citizenship Forum: Moving Beyond Indigenous Self-identification at Canadian Post-secondaries, First Nations University of Canada.
  • Parker, A. (2022, November). Re:Imagine, Re:Connect, Re:Start. 47th Annual POD (Professional and Organization Development Network in Higher Education) Network Conference, Seattle, WA.
  • Parker, A. (2022, December). Courageous Conversations Speakers Series: Human Rights Day Ableism, Disability Justice and Accessible Futures in Post-Secondary Education, University of Calgary, Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. 
  • Parker, A., & Rivera-Quijano, M. (2023, April). Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
  • Penney, M. (2022, May). Spring Perspectives on Teaching Conference, Western University, London, ON.
  • Penney, M. (2023, May). Teaching and Learning with Kindness and Care. University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning (UWTL) Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. 
  • Penney, M., (2023, May). Unwriting the centre. Canadian Writing Centres Association, Zoom. 
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