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. Zahia Marzouk
Dr. Zahia Marzouk’s teaching and instructional design career has spanned over twenty years. She holds an MA in TEFL from the American University Cairo, and an MA and a PhD in Educational Psychology from Simon Fraser University. As a Post-doctoral fellow at the Educational Psychology Lab at SFU, Dr. Marzouk collaborated on designing an online learning environment with tools to support and scaffold individualized learning. Her contributions to this project included conducting experimental research that applied and expanded on theories of learning and instructional design.
Her research primarily explores how students use learning strategies and the development of scaffolds (motivational, cognitive, and metacognitive) for students aimed at enhancing student performance and regulation of learning.
Recently, Dr. Marzouk has been awarded an SSHRC grant, affirming her commitment to innovation in educational psychology. Leading a team of researchers from Simon Fraser University, George Mason University in the United States, and Monash University in Australia, her project seeks to examine the dynamic interplay between motivation and learning. By leveraging advanced software, the team aims to analyze learners' activities and their motivational states in real-time, before, during, and after study sessions. This research employs a multifaceted approach, combining surveys, real-time data tracking, and interactive coaching by a chatbot to deepen our understanding of the interconnections between motivation, cognition, and metacognition. This innovative approach holds great potential for enhancing online learning experiences and will be openly accessible for the benefit of educators and researchers worldwide.
Dr. Greg Simmons
Areas of interest:
- Green criminology
- Corporate crime
- Elite crime
- Crimes of globalization
- Regulatory theory
Dr. Wallapak Polasub
A resource and environmental economist, with more than 15 years of experience in the project management of food systems and agricultural research and extension. After graduating from the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005, Wallapak worked as a lecturer and researcher at Kasetsart University, Thailand. She moved to Canada and made Vancouver her new home in 2011.
Wallapak joined ISFS as a research associate in September 2013. Her interests are on the economic impacts of local food, small-scale farming, farm product direct marketing, co-operatives and sustainable economic development. She also loves extension and outreach works that allow her to work with producers and consumers of farm products.
Recently, she completed qualitative research among newcomers to Canada in Metro Vancouver and led a nationwide research project examining the concerns and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food access.
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