The Office of the Senior Vice President, Academic is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Heidi Marsh as the Director, Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL).
The Director, SoTL will establish Humber College as a leader in the emerging movement of scholarly inquiry into teaching and learning processes. Under the direction of the Associate Vice-President, Teaching and Learning, Dr. Marsh will provide cross-college leadership in advancing and advocating for activities related to SoTL. Such activities will include: identification of questions related to student learning; rigorous, systematic and evidence-based study of student learning; research and peer-review of the results; and communication of the findings, broadly, to provide insights to other educators across the system. The Director will also be responsible for managing a peer-reviewed academic journal at Humber for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Heidi Marsh has spent the past decade researching and teaching on the topic of cognitive and metacognitive abilities in children and non-human primates. She received her B.Sc.H. from Queen’s University, and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at York University, studying information management. Heidi has held teaching positions at Bucknell University (in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania), York University and Western University, teaching a variety of psychology and statistics courses, and continuing her research on metacognitive abilities. More recently, Dr. Marsh was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, studying metacognitive information gathering behaviour in children and rodents.
Dr. Marsh’s research has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Comparative Psychology, Perception, and Animal Cognition, and has been presented at several national and international conferences across Canada and the United States. She has also co-authored two book chapters, and is currently a guest-editor for a special issue of the journal Infant Behavior and Development. Her research has been recognized both at the institutional level, including York University’s top Dissertation Prize, and at the national level, receiving the Canadian Psychological Association’s Certificate of Academic Excellence. Her work has also garnered funding from both provincial and federal governments, including an NSERC Post-doctoral Fellowship, for which she was rated second overall in the Psychology Division. Dr. Marsh’s research has been featured in several media outlets, including an interview on CBC Radio’s national science program Quirks and Quarks. Heidi is also a passionate educator, and has embraced innovation and scholarship in her teaching, both as an instructor and as a coach and mentor for her academic colleagues.
Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Dr. Heidi Marsh.
Eileen De Courcy
Associate Vice President, Teaching & Learning