EXPERIENCE
Instructor
University Of Winnipeg, MB
•Campus Sustainability (4000) – Environmental Studies Department Winter 2024
•Introductory Psychology (1000) – Psychology Department Winter 2022
•Data Analysis (2200) – Psychology Department 2006 – 2007
•Research Methods (2100) – Psychology Department 2006 – 2007
•Data Analysis (2200) – Psychology Department 2005 – 2006
•Research Methods (2100) – Psychology Department 2005 – 2006
University Of Victoria, BC
•Introductory Psychology (100) – Psychology Department Fall 2023
•Addressing Climate Change & Ecological Grief (4 hrs) – Continuing Studies Fall 2022
•Addressing Climate Change & Ecological Grief (2 hrs) – Continuing Studies Spring 2022
•Introductory Psychology (100) – Psychology Department Fall 2020
Booth University College, MB
•Community Psychology (300) – Psychology Department Fall 2023
•Social Psychology (200) – Psychology Department Fall 2023
•Lifespan Development (200) – Psychology Department Fall 2022
University of Prince Edward Island, PEI
•Introductory Psychology (1010) – Psychology Department Fall 2021
Invited Talks
- Ecotourism: Attitudes & behaviours UVic: Psychology & Nature (300) 2020
- Psychology of human-animal relations UVic: Psychology & Nature (300) 2020
- Human-animal relations & ecotourism UVic: Advanced Enviro Psychology (400) 2020
- Social perceptions of environmentalists UVic: Advanced Enviro Psychology (400) 2020
- Descriptive stats and normal distribution UVic: Research Methods-Psychology (200) 2020
- Psychology & climate change UVic: Environmental Psychology (300) 2019
- Qualitative research methods in psychology UVic: Research Methods (200) 2019
- Qualitative research & small N designs UVic: Research Methods (200) 2018
- Social perceptions of environmentalists UVic: Research Methods (200) 2018
- Oil sands, pipelines, & energy in Canada UBC: Sociology & Natural Resources (300) 2016
- Environmental activism in Canada UBC: Environmental Psychology (300) 2015
- Environmental activism in Canada UBC: Environmental Psychology (300) 2014
Teaching Assistant
University of Victoria, BC
• Research Methods (psychology & climate change) – Lab Instructor X4 sections (200) – Psychology Department 2020
• Interpersonal Relationships (300) – Psychology Department 2020
• Infant & Child Development (300) – Psychology Department 2019
• Research Methods (200) – Psychology Department 2019
University of British Columbia, BC
• Sociology & Natural Resources (300) – Sociology Department 2016
• Environmental Psychology (300) – Psychology Department 2014 & 2015
University of Winnipeg, MB
• Data Analysis (2200) – Psychology Department 2003 & 2012
• Advanced Research Design & Data Analysis (4100) – Psychology Dept 2004
• Research Methods (2100) – Psychology Dept 2003
• Cognitive Psychology (High School Enrichment) – Psychology Dept 2003
Adult Continuing Education, MB (volunteer)
• English Language Class (English as an additional language) 2001
“I’d like to commend you for the alignment I saw between your lesson plan and your core beliefs about teaching, which I have the unique ability to speak to as your classmate and colleague.
Your lecture was interpolated with active learning moments that kept the students engaged for the full 50 minutes. You also varied the ways in which you asked the students to participate. For example, you paired think/pair/share opportunities with a longer exercise roughly three-quarters of the way through the class: a game/exercise – and I call it a “game” because it was, indeed, both interesting and fun – was incredibly illuminating without being pedagogically heavy-handed.
You had the students (and myself) thinking deeply about how we value things differently based, primarily, on cultural norms and perceptions. Even more impressive, you had the entire room enthusiastically participating in this discovery, which is a feat of scholastic engineering. From the viewpoint of this observer, the learning that took place during your lecture was active and sincere.”
“Professor Williams did an absolutely amazing job instructing this class. The way she organized and presented material and assignments was very enjoyable and low stress. I feel like many students were able to absorb majority of the information she presented. I really enjoyed her method and style of teaching and would definitely take a course with her again. I do not have any critiques about her lectures, style of teaching or material as it was all informational, enjoyable and interesting.”
Mentorship & Training
Faculty and Instructor Teaching Support 2020 – 2021
Psychology Department – University of Victoria, BC
I provided pedagogical and online support to educators in the psychology department, including facilitating regular interactive teaching seminars.
Teaching Assistant Consultant (TAC) 2019 – 2021
Psychology Department – University of Victoria, BC
Over two appointments in the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years, I provided training and mentorship to graduate students for teaching assistant roles.
Private Tutor and Consultant 2017 – present
• Topics including adult education, academic reading and composition, APA style, statistics and research methods
• For doctoral students: Research consultation and proposal planning, review of dissertations and defence presentations
The Good Life student film
As a staff member of the Sustainability Office at the University of Winnipeg (2012-2013), I mentored undergraduate students in project management and campus engagement.
Assistant Manager of Operations, NPC National Historic Site 2010
I developed and facilitated site training for a new team of operations employees at a remote national historic site. In conjunction with training, I established financial procedures, team protocols and manuals, and managed ongoing scheduling and supervision.
EDUCATION
Graduate of the LATHE certificate program
The University of Victoria
2018 – 2020
“UVic’s Learning and Teaching in Higher Education graduate certificate program (LATHE) is the first of its kind in Canada. It is a dynamic 2 year accredited program that prepares UVic Doctoral students to teach effectively in higher education. LATHE is offered jointly by the Division of Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation and Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies within the Faculty of Graduate Studies.”
Topics and apprenticeship include:
- Course design, lesson plans, and delivery
- Intended learning outcomes, constructive alignment, and backward design
- Bloom’s taxonomy, threshold concepts
- Instructional strategies, active and engaged learning
- Rubrics, scaffolded learning, formative and summative assessment
- Teaching modules, guest teaching and peer teaching observations
- Contemporary issues in higher education, including internationalization, student accommodation, etc.
Teaching Assistant Consultant – psych department
The University of Victoria
2019 – 2021 (2 terms)
“A TAC is a senior graduate student with TA experience and demonstrated teaching excellence, who is able to serve in a mentoring capacity. The TAC’s primary goal is to facilitate the professional development of TAs. This includes assisting them to be effective teachers through a series of discipline-specific TA seminars, teaching observations, one-on-one consultations, and serving as a resource and linkage to appropriate campus resources.”
Preparation for the TAC role includes training in workshop development, hands-on teaching skills, and mentorship. Additional training includes:
- Cultural Acumen (Decolonization and reconciliation in academic spaces)
- Sexualized Violence Prevention
“Hi Liz! Thank you for everything regarding the psychology 201 labs! This was by far my favourite lab that I’ve taken at UVic, thanks in large part to you.
You were incredibly engaging and I really appreciate the level of involvement you had with us (especially at 8:30am on a Wednesday morning, kudos!), as it made the entire experience that much better.
I had been looking forward to learning more about psych research and I am very thankful that I was able to participate in some. Thanks again!”
“I am a novice learner in a college course after being out of school for over 40 years. My personal opinion of Liz is she is nothing short of being magical. Liz is always there for me! She is able to extract from me what i need in order to gain insight into my courses. She has taught me how to be self reflective and given me the encouragement needed to carry on through difficult learning.
Liz is the best teacher/tutor I have ever had! Her patience and caring is above and beyond! She has always made me feel like I can get in touch with her at anytime and have never felt like it was an imposition or a question that was too small too ask. Her support is the reason I am getting the education I need to become a teacher.
It is an honour to know Liz and have her as a tutor. A very heartfelt thank you!”
Contributions to the Development of Teaching and Learning
History Lab
From 2017 to 2020 I worked as a research assistant with Dr. Heidi Tworek at UBC to design, administer, and analyze evaluation materials for a pedagogical project called the History Lab.
More information about the project:
“The History Lab allows students to work on a digital history project with faculty members. It brings the experimental and collaborative spirit of a lab to humanities research, with two main objectives. First, it exposes students to the messy process of research. It removes the walls between teaching and scholarship. Second, it enables students to acquire digital research skills. Heidi Tworek co-created a History Lab at Harvard University, with great success. By putting students in the driving seat, the course turns conventional ideas about instruction on their head. We have all heard of the flipped classroom. This is a flipped curriculum.” – Heidi Tworek, UBC
Curriculum Development
Details to come