The PhD Collab: Arts-Based Interventions in Graduate Research

Imroze Singh Goindval is a PhD student in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. His research examines caregiving for mandhbuddhi (intellectual and developmental disabilities [IDDs]) within Panjabi communities across Panjab (India) and the Panjabi diaspora in British Columbia.

Committed to art museum education for more than twenty-five years, Marie-France was Responsable des visites at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal from 1995-2008, and was gallery educator for 11 years at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She is currently a fulltime lecturer in art education and museum education at the University of British Columbia – Vancouver.

Manisha Tripathy is a PhD student in Curriculum Studies (Art Education) at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research focuses on the aesthetics of algorithms and questions of authority and authorship in conditions of digital saturation.

Anita Sinner is Professor of Art Education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, The University of British Columbia. Her areas of interest include artwork scholarship, ABER, international art education, relational geographies, historical perspectives, life writing, collaborative online learning and community education.

வண#க%! I am a listener of stories and enjoy working on collaborative and creative pedagogical designs. I am grateful to live and work on the traditional, unceded, ancestral territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people. I bring experience as a racialized scholar working in ABER, particularly in collaboration with migrant children and families, as well as the educators who learn from and support them.

Xi Chen (Sisilia) is an artist, educator, and M.A. student in Art Education at the University of British Columbia, where she uses a/r/tography to explore international student identity in Canada through visual journaling. Originally from China, she holds an M.Ed. in Education Management and has curated the “まめほん” (mini picture books) traveling exhibitions and produced Wadang-inspired Ex-Libris printmaking in the museum.

Fabiola del Rincón Fernández is a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at UBC. Her interdisciplinary research examines transnational and multimedial poetic works from Latin American and Caribbean authors and activists. Latin American and Caribbean authors and activists.

Sara Valaniya is an artist, cartoonist, and researcher whose work engages comics, caricature, and visual satire as forms of popular culture and critical knowledge production. With over ten years of professional experience as a caricaturist and cartoonist, her practice spans editorial illustration, broadcast media, animation, and community-based art education in Iran and Canada.