Dr. Joshua DiPasquale

As a postdoctoral researcher, I am working with a team of researchers on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant project. The project involves reframing notions of design in education and also designing professional workshops for in-service teachers, across Alberta. The workshops aim to engage teachers in educational design processes that integrate insights from professional design fields, such as problem framing, with a focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion.

As a RA at the Werklund School of Education, I have assisted on several research projects, including how educators are conceptualizing design processes, designing educational activities to help pre-service teachers design effective anti-bullying interventions, understanding youth’s trust in media during COVID-19, and understanding the influence of podcasting as a learning tool in online course work. Across these projects, I have engaged in
designing learning activities, retrieving and summarizing relevant literature, conducting interviews/focus groups, and engaging generally with qualitative research methods.

As a RA, I worked in both the Educational Informatics Laboratory and the Center for Higher Education Research, Policy, and Practice. Respectively, my duties included using statistical software (SPSS and Excel) to process quantitative data as well as gathering archival data and theoretical insights to assist in the establishment of the international research center. As a TA, I assisted professors in facilitating and teaching two courses within the university’s BA program in educational studies and digital technology.