Experts list

Royal Roads University faculty members are available as experts for media interviews.

They are professional and approachable; they speak in a language your audience can understand.

For media inquiries, including help arranging interviews with our experts, phone 250.882.3481 or email us. (Email is monitored 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, please call for after-hours inquiries.)

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Richard Kool

Professor

Kool is active in the Victoria Holocaust Remembrance and Education Society.

Expertise: Environmental education and communication, dinosaurs, Northwest coast native whaling, marine invertebrates and museum exhibit design.

Robin S. Cox

Professor

Cox is the program head for the graduate programs in Climate Action Leadership. Cox is also the director of the ResiliencebyDesign Lab, a transdisciplinary research and educational outreach centre focused on building multigenerational climate action leadership and competencies.

Expertise: Climate action and professional adaptation to climate change, psychosocial dimensions of disasters including disaster resilience, psychological first aid and critical incident stress management, traumatic stress and coping, and counselling interventions with traumatic stress and anxiety disorders.

Siomonn Pulla

Associate professor

Pulla keeps a website on social science for social change.

Expertise: Corporate–Indigenous relations, Indigenous learning systems, the history of Indigenous–settler relations in the Commonwealth, Métis political resurgence and representation in Canada, and participatory and collaborative research.

Tamara Leary

Associate professor

Expertise: Student services and development (including international students), adult education, program development and assessment, student recruitment, enrolment and retention and higher education administration and leadership

Terry Power

Professor

Power sits on a number of national boards, including the Knowledge Management Institute of Canada, the Comprehensive Security Studies Group and the academic board of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies.

Expertise: Strategic and advanced international studies

Wanda Krause

Associate professor

Expertise: Gender and women’s leadership, organizational development, civil society and the Middle East.

Wendy Rowe

Professor

Rowe has produced more than 100 studies on juvenile justice, law enforcement, substance abuse, mental health, education and social services.

Expertise: Strategic partnership and community engagement, action research, stress transformation, leadership thriving and women’s leadership.

Zhenyi Li

Professor

Li is a prolific author on the topic of intercultural communication.

Expertise: Intercultural understanding, cross-cultural adaptation, multiculturalism, intercultural branding and marketing, connection between intercultural communication and health-related knowledge and attitude and beliefs.