Academic Credentials

PhD (Education), University of Victoria
MA (Education), University of Calgary
BEd (Early Childhood Education), University of Calgary

Biography

Dr. Michelle Yeo is a Professor and director of the Mokakiiks Centre for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Her current research program includes three pillars: student experience of learning, scholarship of educational development, and decolonizing practices in higher education. She is interested in understanding and catalyzing complex development and supporting authentic reflective practice at all levels of the institution.

As director of the Mokakiiks Centre, Dr. Yeo advances Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal through administering an internal SoTL research grants program, co-facilitating a SoTL development program for faculty members, and hosting events such as the Banff Symposium for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She is the past president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL).

Research Interests

• student experiences of learning
• scholarship of educational development
• decolonizing practices.

Affiliations

• International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Canadian Society for the Study of Education
• Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education
• Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• Educational Developers’ Caucus

Selected publications

BOOK

Yeo, M., Miller-Young, J., Manarin, K. (2023). SoTL research methodologies: A guide to conceptualizing and conducting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Routledge.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Miller-Young, J., Yeo, M., & Manarin, K. (2024). Navigating Boundary Experiences in SoTL: Pinch points, paradigms, and perspectives. In Miller-Young, J. & Chick, N.L. (eds.)  Being and becoming a scholar of teaching and learning. Elon University Center for Engaged Learning.

Yeo, M. & Woolmer, C. (2022). Wrestling the monster: Novice SoTL researchers, ethics, and the dual role. In L. Fedoruk (Ed.) Ethics and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Springer, pp. 29-42. 

REFEREED JOURNAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Santucci, A., Yeo, M., Stalheim, O.R. What (Is It) About Dialogue? We Make the SoTL Road by Talking. Transformative Dialogues, 17(1), 72-90. https://doi.org/10.26209/td2024vol17iss11803

Lindstrom, G., Easton, L., Yeo, M., & Attas, R. (2022). The disrupting interview: A framework to approach decolonization. International Journal for Academic Development. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2022.2103560

Boman, J. & Yeo, M. (2020). Exploring and learning from failure in facilitation. International Journal of Academic Development, 25(1), 19-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2019.1700120 

Yeo, M., Boman, J., da Rosa dos Santos, L., Mooney, J., Phillipson, A., Smith, E. (2019). “Inquire, imagine, innovate: A scholarly approach to curriculum practice. Collected Essays in Teaching and Learning (12), 155-165. DOI: 10.22329/celt.v12i0.5421

Yeo, M., Haggarty, L., Ayoungman, K., Wida, W.(Snow, T.), Pearl, C., Stogre, T., Waldie, A. (2019). Unsettling faculty minds: A faculty learning community on Indigenization. New Directions in Teaching and Learning, 157 (Spring), 27-41. DOI: 10.1002/tl.20328 

Miller-Young, J., Manarin, K., & Yeo, M. (2018). Challenges to disciplinary knowing and identity: Experiences of scholars in a SoTL development program. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 12(1), 1-6. DOI: 10.20429/ijsotl.2018.120103

Yeo, M., & Boman, J. (2017). Disciplinary approaches to assessment. Journal of Further and Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2017.1367371

Miller-Young, J., & Yeo, M. (2015). Conceptualizing and communicating SoTL: A framework for the field. Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 3(2), 37-53.

Academic Credentials

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, McMaster University, Canada
PhD (Education), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
MBA (Public Services), University of Brighton, United Kingdom
B.A. (Hons) (Linguistics), University of Essex, United Kingdom

Biography

Dr. Cherie Woolmer is Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning), based in the Mokakiiks Centre for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Her research program focuses on student-faculty partnerships in higher education, which is informed by critical pedagogy, socio-cultural approaches to change, and the impact of pedagogical partnerships on institutional culture. Her recent publications focus on approaches to co-creating curriculum with students and issues of equity and risk in partnerships.

She co-facilitates Mount Royal’s SoTL Development Program, runs workshops and book studies on issues relating to pedagogical partnerships and SoTL, and offers consultations with faculty and students engaged in SoTL.

Research Interests

• Students as Partners in SoTL
• Co-creating curriculum and assessment with student partners
• Learner Voice progression from K-12 to post-secondary
• Institutional cultures of student-faculty partnership in postsecondary education
• Equity and inclusion in student-faculty partnerships
• Educational leadership and capacity building in SoTL
• Knowledge mobilization of SoTL

Teaching and Development

• Mokakiiks SoTL Development Program
• Mokakiiks SoTL seminar series
• Developing student-faculty partnerships to enhance teaching and learning [workshops and consultations]

Affiliations

• Associate Editor, Canadian Journal for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL)
• Associate Editor, Imagining SoTL
• Editorial Board, Centre for Engaged Learning Open Access Book Series
• International Journal for Students as Partners Advisory Group
• International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fellow (2019)

Selected publications

Maurer, T W., Woolmer, C., Powell, N., Sisson, C., Snelling, C., *Stalheim, O., & Turner, I. (2021). Sharing SoTL findings with students: An intentional knowledge mobilization strategy, Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.9.1.22.

Woolmer, C., & *Suh, J. (2020) Understanding educational leadership through Network Analysis: A critical reflection on using social network analysis in a mixed methods study. In N. Fenton & W. Ross (Eds.) Critical reflections on methods for researching teaching and learning (pp. 1-20) Netherlands: Brill.

Bovill, C., & Woolmer C. (2020) Evaluating student engagement and student engagement in evaluation: expanding perspectives and ownership. In T. Lowe & Y. El Hakim (Eds.) A Handbook for Student Engagement in Higher Education: Theory into Practice (pp. 83-96). London:Routledge.

Marquis, E., Healey, M., *Guitman, R., *Black, C., & Woolmer, C. (2020). Navigating from the ‘Micro’ to the ‘Mega’: Toward a Multi-Level Approach to Supporting Student-Staff Partnership. In T. Lowe & Y. El Hakim (Eds.) A Handbook for Student Engagement in Higher Education: Theory into Practice (pp. 110-124). London:Routledge.

Marquis, E. *Guitman, R., *Nguyen, E. & Woolmer, C. (2020). ‘It’s a little complicated for me’: faculty social location and experiences of pedagogical partnership, Higher Education Research & Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1806789

Woolmer, C., Marquis, E., Aspendlieder, E., & Goff, L. (2019). Student-staff partnerships in teaching and learning. In S. Marshall (Ed.) A Handbook for Teaching and Learning: Enhancing Academic Practice (5th edition, pp. 81-94). Routledge.

Woolmer, C. (2019). You say, they say, I say: The weaving of positions, identities, and narratives in partnership work. Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education, Issue 27. https://repository.brynmawr.edu/tlthe/vol1/iss27/6

Bovill, C., & Woolmer, C. (2019). How conceptualizations of curriculum in higher education influence student-staff co-creation in and of the curriculum. Higher Education, 78 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0349-8

Woolmer, C. (2018). Exploring dimensions of risk in pedagogical partnerships in higher education. Teaching and Learning together in Higher Education, Issue 24. https://repository.brynmawr.edu/tlthe/vol1/iss24/1

Woolmer, C., Sneddon, P., Curry, G., Hill, B., Fehertavi, S., Longbone, C., & Wallace, K. (2016). Student-staff partnership to create an interdisciplinary science skills course in a research-intensive university. International Journal for Academic Development, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2015.1113969