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Dr. Billie Jane Hermosura has accrued over 20 years interdisciplinary experience within health care, with her primary areas of research interest being professional competencies development, leadership, and program evaluation. She earned a PhD from the University of Ottawa in Health Professions Education, a Master of Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University, as well as a Master of Applied...

BA (Dalhousie), M.Ed. (University of Saskatchewan), PhD (Queen’s University) Assistant Professor of Assessment and Curriculum Theory Alice Johnston (she/her) is a settler scholar and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at St. Francis Xavier University. She completed her Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies at Queen’s University, where her doctoral research identified principles for...

Jeff Johnston is a pianist, composer, and educator with a long-standing career in jazz and film music. For several decades, he has led his own groups and performed or recorded with artists including John Abercrombie, Slide Hampton, Kenny Wheeler, Sheila Jordan, Dave Liebman, Archie Shepp, and emerging voices such as Bjorn Solli and Ben Solomon. He has toured extensively throughout North America...

Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Her research is concerned with the relationships between power, embodiment, and (visual) culture, from the perspectives of psychoanalysis and decolonial thought. She is author of Surface Imaginations: Cosmetic Surgery, Photography, and Skin (MQUP, 2015), editor of...

Dr. Marc Husband earned his Ph.D. in Education from York University in 2019 and has been teaching mathematics since 1999. His work explores how teachers use students’ ideas as the starting point for meaningful mathematical learning. Marc’s recent research focuses on para-imaging — re-presenting and extending students’ mental math strategies to make their thinking visible and visual during public...