新澳门六合彩开奖

 
 

Centre for Learning and Teaching

Award for Excellence in Education for Equity Recipients


Congratulations to the 2025 recipient!


Dr. Heidi Weigand is an Assistant Professor at 新澳门六合彩开奖鈥檚 Faculty of Management, where she specializes in leadership, change management, and Indigenous community engagement. Her research focuses on building resilient, sustainable communities through collaboration, mental health advocacy, and decolonization. Dr. Weigand鈥檚 work often incorporates Two-Eyed Seeing, a framework that combines Indigenous and Western knowledge to foster respect, sustainability, and collective well-being. She collaborates closely with Indigenous knowledge holders, particularly in the Mi鈥檏maq community, to address community-driven projects on mental health, fish habitat protection, and leadership systems.

As an educator, Dr. Weigand teaches BUSI 6998: Building Collaborative Capacity and BUSI 6999: Leading Change, focusing on developing leadership skills through diverse cultural lenses. She has received numerous awards and grants, including SSHRC Explore and Mitacs funding, to advance her research on decolonization and community leadership. Dr. Weigand holds a PhD from Saint Mary鈥檚 University.

2020

Dr. Amy Bombay, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine

2019

Dr. Suzanne Zinck, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine

The care of trans and gender-diverse youth is a priority area in health care. Yet, because most physicians and primary care providers consider this a specialty area, few have the required knowledge to care for this historically underserved population. Dr. Zinck, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, has been educating physicians from across the province to understand the incredible resilience of these youth and families despite the institutional stigma, discrimination and waitlists they currently face. The impact of Dr. Zinck鈥檚 work is profound: through student mentorship and physician education, she has passionately contributed to the overall health and well-being of trans and gender-diverse youth and their families from across the province and beyond.

2017

Dr. Lisa Goldberg, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health

Lisa Goldberg, an associate professor in the School of Nursing, is receiving Dal鈥檚 award for education for diversity. In particular, Dr. Goldberg is being celebrated for her work enhancing Dal鈥檚 Nursing curriculum by applying the 鈥淐aring Science鈥� approach to teaching and mentorship. These changes provide more opportunities for students to have exposure to important considerations in the health-care system, like the needs of LGBTQ+ individuals. Wrote one nominator: 鈥淪he creates a safe space for students to discuss issues of heteronormativity, sexism, racism, ableism, etc. Within this space of diversity dialogue, she is able to address issues of socially constructed marginalization so that students can continue their own journey of present and life-long learning about diversity.鈥�

2015

Dr. Wanda Thomas Bernard, School of Social Work

The inaugural recipient for this award, Wanda Thomas Bernard has been with the School of Social Work for over 25 years. Dr. Bernard advocates great teaching and learning within the 新澳门六合彩开奖 community and beyond. Her willingness to develop innovative curricula reforms that take diversity seriously is demonstrated over and over again in her engagement in her own courses and within her department. She has authored numerous pieces that share her practices with a wider audience, and has been a role model, mentor, and friend for many students and colleagues at 新澳门六合彩开奖 and in the region more generally. Last year Dr. Bernard was awarded the Order of Nova Scotia and this April received the national Harry Jerome Award for community service.

Diversity in the Classroom

Dal News, Matt Reeder - November 6, 2015