Royal Roads University faculty members are available as experts for media interviews.
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Doug Hamilton
Professor
Expertise: Problem-based learning, integrative learning, online course facilitation, transformative change processes and domestic and international program development.
Elizabeth A. Childs
Professor
Expertise: Educational technology, instructional design, adult education and online learning, the changing face of distance education and the use of social media in problem-based learning environments.
Eugene Thomlinson
Associate faculty
Thomlinson has taught tourism and hospitality in Canada and Australia. He worked for the Canadian Tourism Commission and Parks Canada.
Expertise: Tourism market research and management.
Eva Malisius
Associate professor
Expertise: Conflict competence in leadership and teams, human rights related to early stages of human life, integration of video assignments in learning and teaching, conflict at the interpersonal and community levels and the national to the international levels and engaging with conflict more constructively.
Geo Takach
Professor
Communicator, writer and documentary filmmaker includes hundreds of speeches, publications (books, magazines, newspapers, corporate fare), film, radio, television and video. He published two books in 2016, Tar Wars and Scripting the Environment.
Expertise: Environmental communication and environment and democracy.
Geoff Archer
Associate professor
Archer is the director of the Eric C. Douglass Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies. He has published a number of works including his 2016 book, #WriteIn16: A Field Guide to the 100 Most Presidential Americans.
Expertise: entrepreneurship, experiential learning, microbusiness, microfinance
Geoffrey Bird
Professor
Bird has produced a series of films exploring Canadian war history and heritage. His latest work, A Moral Awakening, explores the legacy of the atomic bomb on the Délı̨nę First Nation of the Northwest Territories.
Expertise: Remembrance tourism, sustainable tourism, tourism human resource development policy and practice, the visitor experience and war heritage.
Jaigris Hodson
Professor
Hodson is a frequent media commentator and author for The Conversation Canada.
She maintains an active role as a social media consultant, with clients such as the Canadian Country Music Association. She deleted her Facebook account in 2017.
Expertise: Uses of computer-assisted discourse, analysis of large multimodal online and digital texts, the importance of soft skills for students, Canadian social media use during elections and the future of local news in North America.
Jennifer Walinga
Professor
Walinga was a member of Canada’s Commonwealth, World and Olympic gold medal rowing teams from 1983 to 1992.
Expertise: Organizational communication, team dynamics and high performance, creative insight and social innovation, workplace health and sport education.
Dr. Juana Du
Program head
Du is fluent in Mandarin.
Expertise: Corporate and intercultural communication, performance management and innovation, expatriate training and relocation, organizational diversity and culture, and learning and knowledge management and subsidiaries of multinational enterprises.
Kathy Bishop
Associate professor
Expertise: Creative and collaborative leadership, health and wellness, reflexivity and ethics, and using artistic and action research for positive organizational change.
Kenneth Christie
Program head
Christie is a frequent media commentator on conflict around the world and has travelled extensively in war zones and conflict areas.
He has worked at universities in Europe, USA, the Middle East, Africa and Canada, and has published more than 12 books. He is the head of the Human Security and Peacebuilding program at Royal Roads.
Expertise: Migration and refugees, human rights, human security and peacebuilding, ethnic and state formation/failure in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, terrorism, de-radicalization and jihadist groups, and the growth of populism in the West and elsewhere.