{"id":91416,"date":"2024-03-11T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=91416"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:35:12","slug":"faculty-of-education-appoints-new-associate-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/03\/faculty-of-education-appoints-new-associate-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty of Education appoints new Associate Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Educational Studies Joyce Mgombelo has been appointed Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Student Services in the Faculty of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Mgombelo brings specialized expertise to the role, having served as Graduate Program Director of the Joint PhD in Educational Studies and as a mentor for graduate students and new faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted\u00a0to\u00a0recognize the experience and wisdom that\u00a0Joyce\u00a0brings\u00a0to\u00a0her new role as we continue to enhance our robust research portfolio in the Faculty of Education,\u201d said\u00a0Professor Mary-Louise Vanderlee, Interim Dean of the Faculty.<\/p>\n<p>In her new role, Mgombelo said she strives to amplify the innovative work of faculty and graduate students. <em>Maclean\u2019s<\/em> magazine ranked Brock 11th for its research reputation in the publication\u2019s 2024 ranking of Canada\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/education.macleans.ca\/feature\/canadas-best-education-programs-university-rankings-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 top schools for education programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to finding new and interesting ways we can support faculty and graduate students in their work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mgombelo offers extensive experience in research practices learned through her own research agenda in mathematics education, focusing on cognition, teacher education, computational thinking, identity, and ethics.<\/p>\n<p>A strong supporter of interdisciplinary and collaborative research practices, Mgombelo has also secured extensive internal and external funding for various research projects with international reach and said collaboration is key to her success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have worked with many collaborators, locally, nationally and internationally, and have seen the great value of group work among graduate students, faculty and, of course, local and international communities who are involved in our research,\u201d Mgombelo said.<\/p>\n<p>To encourage collaboration, Mgombelo will work to create events and research forums that gather faculty and graduate students together for knowledge sharing and discussion, fostering the connection between experienced faculty and those just starting their graduate studies journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Educational Studies Joyce Mgombelo has been appointed Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Student Services in the Faculty of Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":91417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,7,1],"tags":[98,6094],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91421,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91416\/revisions\/91421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}