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Warren Code, MSc, PhD
Associate Director, Special Initiatives

Warren leads, advises and assists in planning, research/evaluation and management for a range of teaching and learning projects across the Faculty of Science, with a particular focus on the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative and related UBC initiatives. Warren is responsible for advising and professional development for department-based teaching and learning fellows, evaluating impact on students and faculty, and connecting (via correspondence and on-campus visits) with people from UBC and other institutions interested in the accomplishments in teaching and learning within the Faculty of Science.

Alice Campbell, MA, MET
Science Education Specialist (SES)

Alice provides pedagogical support to faculty to enhance their teaching and learning practices in face-to-face, blended and online learning environments. She works collaboratively with faculty to design and implement evaluation tools to help inform pedagogical decisions, advises on instructional design best practices, and supports faculty in developing well-aligned teaching and classroom assessment materials.

Jaclyn Dee
Science Education Specialist (SES)

Jaclyn’s work as a Science Education Specialist in the Department of Zoology is guided by the principle that educators and students, at every stage in their development, can foster a culture of teaching and learning excellence. She creates spaces for all learners to discover, discuss, and evaluate evidence-based teaching and learning practices through individual consultation and by organizing, facilitating, and presenting at science education workshops, retreats, and symposia. To inform curriculum renewal and assessment efforts, Jaclyn also seeks to engage faculty and students in building a consensus vision of the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that Biology program graduates should possess.

Noureddine Elouazizi, MSc, MPhil, PhD
Learning Technology Strategist and Skylight LT team lead

Noureddine is responsible for providing the strategic leadership to manage the learning technologies ecosystem at the Faculty of Science. He leads the Skylight-Learning Technology team (Skylight-LT) to provide Learning Technologies services, which include: (i) management of the LT-Ecosystem operations at the Faculty of Science, (ii) consulting faculty members and other stakeholders on the feasibility, integration, design and sustainability of LT-pedagogies and solutions, and (iii) collaborating and engaging with Science faculty in LT-mediated pedagogy’ s evaluation, innovation and research.

Naoko Hawkins, PhD
Educational Strategist, Student Diversity Initiative

Working in partnership with UBC Science instructors, staff, and students, Naoko develops, implements, and evaluates strategies that enhance equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) at UBC Science. She also works to enhance EDI sustainable capacity in UBC Science through training, consulting, communication, and collaboration. Naoko is cross-appointed between Skylight and the Equity & Inclusion Office.

Erica Jeffery, MSc
Science Education Specialist (SES)

(Currently on leave)

As a Life Sciences SES within the Zoology Department, Erica aims to empower graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to use evidence-based methods to achieve their teaching and learning goals. She is particularly interested in leveraging technology to make student learning inside and outside the classroom more effective, and in ways that instructors can efficiently collect and make use of data to inform their teaching practices. Her goals include supporting instructors in undertaking pedagogical projects, fostering connections within and between the department and the UBC teaching and learning community, and assessing and improving the alignment between course-level and program-level learning outcomes.

Adele Ruosi
Science Education Specialist (SES)

As a Science Education Specialist jointly appointed with Skylight and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Adele advises faculty instructors, including instructors in a paired-teaching arrangement, on pedagogical improvement, curriculum revisions, and assessment of teaching and learning effectiveness. She also works on a longitudinal tracking project to assess students' learning effectiveness and to identify their challenges in physics throughout their entire curriculum.

Ashley Welsh, MA, PhD
Faculty Liaison

As the Faculty Liaison, Ashley advises and supports faculty and graduate students with the development and evaluation of teaching and learning enhancement projects. She also contributes to curriculum and course development, professional development services, and the development of the Faculty-wide undergraduate student learning outcomes. Ashley is cross appointed between the Science Centre for Learning and Teaching (Skylight) and the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) as a means to improve collaboration among these groups and to enrich the scholarship of teaching and learning occurring within the Faculty of Science.