Humber’s Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) would like to highlight a passionate social innovation researcher and faculty member Dr. Soheila Pashang as our Faculty Rock Star of the week.   

Soheila has spent more than 14 years teaching and researching social justice. As a professor in the Faculty of Social & Community Services (FSCS) at Humber, she is committed to teaching, learning, and expanding the conversation around diversity. Soheila notes, “Diversity is considered a sensitive topic, but it should not be. It is part of our reality in life.” Her commitment to diversity ignited her latest research, Pedagogy and Practice: Teaching Diversity in Classrooms.

The research is a prominent example of Humber College’s dedication to supporting research projects under the umbrella of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), now incorporated into the family of Humber’s Office of Research & Innovation. With funding from SoTL’s then-Teaching Innovation Fund (now restructured and replaced as the Seed and Cultivate Research and Innovation Funds), the research project started in 2018 and became a collaborative, multi-year endeavour.  

Learn more about Soheila and the research project, “Faculty Rock Star: Soheila Pashang, PhD Sheds light on her research team’s project: Pedagogy and Practice: Teaching Diversity in Classrooms.”