Researchers

Dr. Straw explores the question of whether new technologies move us forward in cultural terms, or whether they slow down a sense of innovation and progress by providing ever more…

Dr. Smith is an Associate Researcher in the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia. She is the former executive director of Coastal Jazz and the highly…

Sociologist Howard Becker continues to observe, interview, and write, after retiring from a forty-six year academic career. His most recent publications include “ASA Convention” in Social Psychology Quarterly (2007) and…

Since the mid 1990s, Andra McCartney has been developing an approach to the creation of electroacoustic soundwalk art which features reflexivity studies as an important aspect of the work, integrating…

Adam Davies (he/they) is a queer feminist interdisciplinary researcher with a background in Education, Sexuality Diversity Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. Adam holds a PhD from OISE, University of…

Stacey Bliss, PhD (Education: Language, Culture and Teaching, York University, Canada) is an imaginative (auto)ethnographer, sound collaborator, and Gong teacher/student/performer. As a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Media,…

Jessica Bissett Perea is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work intersects the larger fields of Native American & Indigenous Studies (NAIS) and Music & Sound Studies. She specializes in Critical NAIS approaches to…

Ingrid Mündel is the Managing Director of the Re•Vision Centre. Ingrid holds a PhD in Literature and Performance Studies from the University of Guelph and is an experienced community-based researcher,…

Sara Ramshaw was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in 2017 following previous appointments at the University of Exeter (England) and Queen’s University Belfast (Northern…

Michelle Stewart is an award-winning, and internationally funded social sciences and health researcher, who is a known advocate and activist for social justice. She has a specialization in health and…