Shayna Minosky, REB Chair
Dr. Shayna Minosky (formerly Rusticus) started with KPU as a sessional instructor in May 2014 and became a regular full-time faculty member in September 2016. Dr. Minosky completed her undergraduate degree at KPU (then Kwantlen University College) in 2003. She graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (BAA) in Psychology. From there she went to UBC where she completed her Master’s (2005) and PhD (2010) in Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology. She also completed a two-year post-doctorate with the Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES) at UBC then two years with the Department of Physical Therapy on an evaluation project related to evidence-informed health care.
Prior to working full-time with KPU, Dr. Minosky worked for 8 years as a Statistical Analyst for the Evaluation Studies Unit within UBC’s Faculty of Medicine (and still continues to work there on a casual basis). She has also taught as a sessional instructor for over 10 years in the Faculty of Education and School of Social Work at UBC.
Outside of her professional life, Dr. Minosky lives with her partner, three teenage children, cats Willow, Charlie, and Luna and dog Shadow, in New Westminster. She stays active through walking, hiking and weightlifting. She also has 10 years of experience in mixed martial arts. Other hobbies she has are reading fantasy novels and crocheting (and other crafts).
Ken Bauder
Ken Bauder joins the KPU REB as a community member. Ken is retired, living in Cloverdale with his partner of 54 years, 2 adult children and 4 grandchildren. Ken’s work life involved several industries focused around the maritime industries (land and water). He was also involved in education (instruction and curriculum development) and was employed by the Provincial Government. Ken’s volunteer work included being a Board of Director (BoD) on a credit union, school district business company, a municipal festival organization, a community representative on a SSHRC grant.
Currently, Ken is a BoD with the Cloverdale Community Association. His passion for supporting the community has been formed by his travels through many countries, which helped him further recognize, understand, and respect different cultures.
“I believe that it is important to build collaborative relationships between community and stakeholders to inform decisions and that having an open dialogue with our families and our communities is beneficial to understand who we are as individuals”. - Ken Bauder
Dr. Fabricio Telo
Fabricio Telo is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at KPU. He completed his Master of Arts and PhD in Social Sciences at the Federal Rural University in Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Brazil. As a member of Brazil's Peasant Truth Commission, Fabricio works on the history of the Brazilian military dictatorship of 1964-1985, advocating for reparations for its victims. In 2024, he received KPU's Chancellor's Chair Award to conduct a research project on the complicity of a Canadian corporation with that same dictatorship.
Dr. Greg Simmons
Areas of interest:
- Green criminology
- Corporate crime
- Elite crime
- Crimes of globalization
- Regulatory theory
Anne Worthington
Anne is a community member for the KPU REB and has lived in the Lower Mainland since 2003. Her professional career spans more than 20 years. She leads program needs assessments and evaluation studies with post-secondary institutions, entrepreneurs, and local and international non-profit organizations. She blends technical depth, strategic thinking, curiosity, and a strong commitment to social justice.
Areas of interest:
- Social accountability in health education programs, including predictive studies
- Rural economic development and small business support programs
- International development and humanitarian aid projects (education, health, food security and nutrition, livelihoods, carbon markets, agriculture, gender equity)
Anne holds graduate degrees in areas of research methods, international development, and anthropology. In addition to the KPU REB, she serves on boards for the Canadian Evaluation Society of BC and the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a volunteer in the performing arts, plays in musical groups throughout the lower mainland, and is an avid enthusiast of ultimate frisbee, kayaking, badminton, and skiing. Her greatest joy comes from travel and forming intercultural connections.
Dr. Tanjeem Azad
I am interested in the scientific study of people’s memories for past events and experiences. To date, my research has examined factors that influence how we misremember past events in applied situations, such as eyewitness testimony. One factor that I have been exploring is the consequences of false denials on memories. If you can clearly recollect a past experience but later are incorrectly informed that the experience did not occur, how does that affect your belief and memory about the experience? I am also collaborating with research scholars around the world to investigate various memory phenomenon, e.g., with colleagues in the United States to examine how non-probative photographs may affect people’s beliefs regarding health claims about COVID-19; with colleagues in the Netherlands to examine various therapeutic practices that may give rise to erroneous beliefs in repressed memories; and, with colleagues in New Zealand to examine the monetary values of memory.
Paula Hirschmann
Areas of interest:
- Social/criminological theory
- Green criminology
- Gender-based violence prevention
Melissa Cuthill
Data Librarian, KPU. Melissa is responsible for developing and providing research data management (RDM) and data services support to faculty, staff, and student researchers.
Areas of interest:
- RDM
- FAIR data principles
- Discoverability
- Digital preservation
- Controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies
- UX & usability design