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Rahula Samaranayake 

Rahula Samaranayake is an international student from Sri Lanka and completed his Master of Education program at 黑料网 in 2025. He was a Mathematics and Statistics teacher in Sri Lanka for the international curriculum. He is also an online mathematics tutor and maintains a repository of instructional mathematics videos to support high school and university undergraduates.

Rahula is studying metacognition in artificial intelligence. In particular, he is exploring mathematics students鈥� metacognition when they use AI.

Xiaohan Yang

Xiaohan Yang holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Florida Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Educational Studies (Urban Education) from Johns Hopkins University, Xiaohan brings an interdisciplinary background to her research at the intersection of education and technology. Xiaohan, originally from China, completed her initial teacher certification training in China, earning the Chinese National Teacher Certification, and has four years of practical teaching experience in both Chinese and American K-12 classrooms.

Xiaohan鈥檚 primary research interest lies in the role of social artificial intelligence in emotional support for adolescents, with a secondary focus on how generative AI can support content learning for multilingual learners.

Saniya Shaikh

Saniya Shaikh holds a master鈥檚 degree in physics from the University of Pune, India, and has almost a decade worth of teaching experience as a Physics lecturer for a polytechnic in India followed by a high school Physics teaching position with the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates where she also led the Advanced Science Program as a coordinator.

Saniya鈥檚 interests are in exploring the application and effective integration of educational technologies such as Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) and artificial intelligence (AI) in STEM education across school boards and in the teacher training program. She also an instructor at the university where she has taught the Astronomy course in the Department of Physics and a STEM education course in the Bachelor of Education program.

Sasha Nandlal

Sasha is from Trinidad and Tobago where she worked as a secondary school teacher. She completed her MEd degree at the University of New Brunswick focusing on Instructional Design and Online Learning.

In her PhD program, Sasha is exploring e-assessment in an inclusive education framework.

Michael Ampong

Michael is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Education. He is an international student from Ghana in West Africa. He has an MPhil in Educational Administration from the University of Cape Coast and a BEd in Information Technology from the University of Education in Ghana. Michael 鈥媓as worked as a teacher and an examiner in his home country. He is passionate about student achievement, higher-order thinking skills acquisition, teacher development, and online education. For his dissertation, he is using a mixed-method approach to investigate strategies that can help strengthen the formative assessment of higher-order thinking skills in online education.

Publications:

• Ampong, M. (2020). Review of the book, Digital Literacy Skills for FE Teachers, By White, J., Canadian Journal of Education/Revue Canadienne De l鈥櫭ヾucation, 43(1), iv-vi. Retrieved from 

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Elizabeth Blake

Elizabeth Blake began her PhD journey in January 2021 and has been exploring posthumanist educational theory as a means of recreating inclusive education. She graduated from the University of New Brunswick with a combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education in 2001. She moved to the Island shortly after graduation and started her teaching career at Tignish Elementary. Over the last 20 years, she has taught in Elementary, Intermediate and High schools across the island with the French and English school boards. During this time, she completed her Master鈥檚 in Education: Leadership and Learning at 黑料网. Her Master's thesis 鈥淭he emotional labour of critical pedagogy: An autoethnographic study of teacher identity鈥� explores the need to elevate all voices in the classroom. 

Elizabeth is excited to work with the Faculty of Education as the BEd (fls) coordinator, assistant professor and as a PhD student. Her leave of absence as an administrator for the la Commission scolaire de langue fran莽aise will allow her to consider various ways of being together in an inclusive classroom. Her research interests include inclusive education, assessment, diversity, actor-network theory, agential realism and posthumanist theory. 

Diane Montgomery

Diane is in the second year of her PhD program. She also completed her Master of Education at 黑料网 with her thesis exploring the integration of technology, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Response to Intervention (RTI) frameworks in inclusive classrooms. Diane also holds post-graduate certificates in training and development and educational therapy. Her interests include inclusive education, educational leadership and alternative assessment methods. Diane has worked with students with diverse learning needs in private and public educational settings supporting them to learn how to learn. Her goal is to continue uncovering barriers that prevent all students from becoming successful learners and to identify potential solutions.

Selected publications:

• Montgomery, D. (2022). The tiered approach to support all learners in inclusive classrooms. Thesis. PEI. ;
• Montgomery, D. (In press, 2022). (Review of the book Colour Matters: Essays on the Experiences, Education and Pursuits of Black Youth. Book by Carl E. James). Cdn Journal of Education.

Conference presentations:

• 黑料网 Graduate Studies and Research Conference. Oct. 14, 2022
• Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association conference. May 17, 2022
• Canadian Study for the Society of Education conference. May 19, 2022.
• The Rosa Bruno-Jofr茅 Symposium in Education, Queen鈥檚 University. March 26, 2021

Christina Perry

Christina is a 2nd year PhD student currently working on her comprehensive ePortfolio. She has almost twenty years鈥� experience working with international students as Instructor and Manager of English for Academic Purposes programming at the post-secondary level.

Her research interests include building inclusive learning environments, equity, diversity and inclusion, internationalization, and English as an Additional Language pedagogy.

Of particular interest is how to be an inclusive researcher. Her dissertation will be exploring how university classrooms can be inclusive spaces based on the tenets of community and a sense of belongingness.