Episode Five – Clea Schmidt (University of Manitoba)
Dr. Clea Schmidt is Professor of Education at the University of Manitoba, where her research interests include diversity in the teaching force and the international mobility of educators and students from equity-seeking groups.
Dr. Schmidt also serves on the Working Group on Academic Freedom at the Centre for Free Expression, Metropolitan University (Toronto).
She is particularly interested in critically examining the intersection of academic freedom and university initiatives and policies such as respectful workplaces; trigger warnings; and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).
Visit Dr. Schmidt’s faculty page: https://umanitoba.ca/education/clea-schmidt
Host
Dr. Marc Spooner
Professor, Faculty of Education University of Regina
Dr. Marc Spooner is a professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He specializes in qualitative and participatory action research at the intersections of theory and action-on-the-ground.
His interests include: homelessness & poverty, "audit culture" & the effects of neoliberalization & corporatization on higher education, and social justice, activism, & participatory democracy.
He has published in a variety of venues including peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, government reports, and popularizations. He is recognized by the Canadian Senate as an expert in homelessness.
Stephen Hurley
Chief Catalyst voicEd Radio Canada
Stephen Hurley has spent nearly 40 years as an educator. He has experience as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, a teacher educator and a policy observer. As the founder and chief catalyst at voicEd Radio, Hurley is passionate about nurturing stronger relationships between education research, practice and policy.
