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 As Research and Evaluation Consultant, Nicola Simmons supports the design and implementation of research about teaching and learning at UW. In addition to co-ordinating the Teaching-based Research Group (TBRG) and LIF/PIF grants program, she assists faculty members with research-related activities: grant proposals, ethics proposals, conference proposals, and publications. Nicola pursues her own research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), doctoral student and new faculty identity development, reflective practice, and qualitative research methods and ethics, and holds a number of research grants related to program evaluation.
Nicola is also a graduate advisor and teaches part-time in the Faculty of Education at Brock University, where she received her PhD for her study What’s different under the gown: New professors’ constructions of their teaching roles. Nicola and her husband, who live in Burlington, have a musical son and a horse-crazy daughter. Her hobbies include making willow furniture and judging science fairs. Selected Professional Highlights Publications
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Staff Profile - Nicola Simmons
The Centre for Teaching Excellence
Environment 1, Office 325
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
CTE Phone: 519 888 4567, x 33353
CTE Fax: 519 888 9806
Email: cte@uwaterloo.ca