The Canadian Society for the Study of Education is the largest organization of professors, students, researchers and practitioners in education in Canada. CSSE is the major national voice for those who create educational knowledge, prepare teachers and educational leaders, and apply research in the schools, classrooms and institutions of Canada. Founded in 1972, the bilingual CSSE is an umbrella organization consisting of several national constituent associations.
Dr. Robert Nellis is highly honoured and thrilled to be serving his term as a CSSE president. Robert completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta in 2007, with his thesis co-receiving the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Dissertation Award. He developed that work into Haunting Inquiry: Classic NFB Documentary, Jacques Derrida, and the Curricular Otherwise (Sense 2009). Since that time, his scholarship has drawn from memoir, creative nonfiction, arts-based approaches, and poetic inquiry. Robert loves working as a continuous faculty member in the Red Deer College School of Education and currently teaches courses in Child Development and Family Studies. Previous courses he has taught include Media, Culture, and Curriculum; Concepts of Childhood in the History of Education; Introduction to Educational Psychology; Communication in the Classroom; and Inclusive Education: Adapting Instruction for Students for RDC. His service has included work for Local 37, Alberta Teachers Association, Red Deer College Faculty Association, and the board for the Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta, Red Deer Chapter.
Dr. Shelleyann Scott is a professor and currently the Chair of the Leadership, Policy and Governance specialisation in Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. She has held numerous leadership roles within the university context including Chair of department, Associate Dean, Professional and Community Engagement and Director of Graduate Programs at the University of Calgary. Prior to joining the University of Calgary, Shelley was the Director and Coordinator of Teaching and Learning at Curtin University’s Business School, the largest business school in Australia at that time. Shelley has experience in education, government, and business contexts. Her work experience encompasses leadership in an education district office, high school teaching, medical technology, and business consultancy.
Dr. Jennifer Markides is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and an Associate Professor in Curriculum and Learning with the Werklund School of Education and the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. Jennifer’s research focuses on the holistic wellbeing of youth and Indigenous education, towards systemic change and reconciliatory action. She prioritizes community-engaged partnerships where the research is responsive to the needs, interests, and knowledges of communities. She utilizes Indigenous research methodologies, emancipatory pedagogies, and arts-based approaches in her scholarship.
Dr. Sylvie Roy is a professor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. Her areas of research are: sociolinguistics for change, second and additional language teaching and learning, ethnography and discourse analysis. She has published a book entitled: French Immersion Ideologies in Canada based on her research in French immersion. She has worked in teacher education to train French teachers in Alberta. She also served as Associate Dean of Research in her faculty from 2018-2023. She was the President of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics from 2008 to 2010.Dr
Dr. Dawn Wiseman is an Associate Professor and Department Chair at Bishop’s University. Her work focuses on the manner in which Indigenous and Western ways of knowing, being, and doing might circulate together in STEM/STEAM teaching and learning (kindergarten through post-secondary education) by examining how interactions and interrelationships between policy, practitioners, and practice create, maintain, or collapse the possibilities for such circulation. While the research has a heavy theoretical component, it emerges from what educators do in classrooms and how those acts of doing, impact student learning and understandings.
Dr. Aloysius N. Maduforo is an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. His interdisciplinary research focuses on leadership in higher education, health equity, organizational change, and the wellbeing of Black, racialized, and immigrant communities. Dr. Maduforo’s scholarship integrates educational leadership, public health, and community-engaged research to address complex social challenges and advance equitable policies and practices. He has published extensively in leadership, education, and health sciences and serves in several editorial leadership roles.
Tim has been happily employed with CSSE since 1982. Over that time Tim has encountered many amazing people, and forged some strong relationships. Tim enjoys living his life with his partner filled with travel, good food, and good friends. Tim’s role in CSSE involves the finances of CSSE and of four additional national organizations (CASAE, CNIE, CSSHE, and OTESSA).
Email: finances [at] csse-scee.ca
Barb has been with the Society for over 10 years. Barb’s role is to manage membership, conference, and special events registrations and other duties as required. In addition, Barb provides the same for an additional four national organizations at this office which also include CASAE, CNIE, CSSHE, and OTESSA.
Email: mmb_services [at] csse-scee.ca
Nabila has been a member of CSSE since 2021 and has joined in the Conference Manager position in 2024. Outside of her work with CSSE, Nabila is a PhD Candidate at the University of Victoria in the Faculty of Education. Her research interests include intersectional feminism, space and placemaking, social justice, informal learning and adult education.
Email: conference-congres [at] csse-scee.ca
Nat has been a member of CSSE since 2022 and has joined in the Communications Manager position in 2024. Nat supports the website, social media, newsletters, and member updates. She is a PhD student attending Lakehead’s Joint PhD in Educational Studies. Her research interests include media literacy, teacher confidence, and arts-based research methods. She also supports CURAC through the CSSE Secretariat.
Email: communications [at] csse-scee.ca
Cam has been working with CSSE in various roles since 2016. As Executive Director, Cam supports the governance and operations of the CSSE Secretariat groups (CSSE, CSSHE, CASAE, CNIE, and OTESSA). Outside of his work, Cam completed his PhD at the University of Ottawa in 2024. His research interests include French as Second Language, teacher education, and technology integration.
Email: execdir-dirgen [at] csse-scee.ca
The objective of CSSE is to promote the advancement of Canadian research and scholarship in education. In order to fulfill its mandate, CSSE will:
CSSE is governed by a board of directors consisting of an elected executive and the presidents of the constituent associations and of the graduate student committee, supported by a permanent staff in our Ottawa office.
The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, known as the Federation, is a membership-based organization that is made up of 66 scholarly associations and 71 universities and colleges, comprising more than 70,000 scholars, students and practitioners across Canada. CSSE is one of the largest scholarly associations in the Federation.
Through its activities, the Federation strives to support and advance Canada’s research in the humanities and social science, fields which are intrinsically important to the development of social, cultural and economic understanding, thus giving our society necessary tools to address the most complex of questions.
For more information on the Federation, please visit their web site.