Ruth Nielsen

Ruth Nielsen

Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies

Bachelor of Arts, Honours - English Literature - University of Victoria, Master of Arts - Education, Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership - Western University

Ruth Nielsen

Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies

Bachelor of Arts, Honours - English Literature - University of Victoria, Master of Arts - Education, Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership - Western University

I am a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education, Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership Studies. My research focuses on how Ontario high-school principals understand and promote equity in virtual schooling.

As a born and raised Yukoner, from Whitehorse, Yukon, I am very interested in decolonizing research including Northern communities. My MA research (completed in 2020) was an autoethnography of my experience negotiating access for collaborative inquiry into shared educational leadership in the Yukon Territory.

I earned my Bachelor of Arts, Honours from the University of Victoria in 2013. Here, my studies focused on contemporary western Canadian fiction. My final project used a post-colonial theoretical lens to examine the concept of home in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach and Jack Hodgins’ Broken Ground.

My research interests are virtual schooling, educational leadership, ethical leadership, shared / collaborative leadership, decolonizing research, equity, social justice, epistemology, critical theory, and Foucauldian theory.

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Katina Pollock, PhD

Supervisor