Research & Scholarship
Stephanie's scholarly work sits at the intersection of post-secondary education, institutional practice, and the human dimensions of professional transition. She is drawn to questions that matter in real contexts, and to inquiry that finds its way back to people.
The EdD is a professional doctorate designed for practitioners who want to bring scholarly rigour to real-world leadership challenges. For Stephanie, it is a natural extension of nearly two decades spent inside post-secondary institutions: observing, designing, and leading, and wondering why things work the way they do. Her doctoral work deepens her capacity to examine those questions with both intellectual seriousness and practical intent.
Some of the most meaningful inquiry happens inside institutions, not just about them. Stephanie has led and contributed to formal practice-based research projects within post-secondary contexts: work grounded in evidence, shaped by real constraints, and oriented toward change.
College of Law, USask · 2024–2025
Competency-Based Legal Education (CBLE) Project
Contributed to one of the first structured inquiries into competency-based program frameworks within a Canadian legal education context. Supported evidence-informed curriculum analysis alongside faculty, the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching & Learning, and the Law Society of Saskatchewan, exploring readiness, opportunity, and constraint.
College of Medicine, USask · 2019–2022
Program Evaluation in Undergraduate Medical Education
Led practice-based program evaluation examining medical student residency match strategies, application experiences, and wellbeing during a high-stakes national transition. Designed the systems that enabled annual data collection across all four years of undergraduate medical education. Supported peer-reviewed dissemination in the Canadian Medical Education Journal.
"The questions that drive me rarely have tidy answers. And that's exactly the point."
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