I am currently the VP Academic and Provost at beautiful Royal Roads University in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. I bumbled through an undergraduate degree and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Sheffield in England. I then spent time in various positions doing research and teaching in areas ranging from synthetic chemistry to environmental science and travelled extensively in the Canadian Arctic and the west coast of Canada as a field scientist with a specialization in contaminant transport mechanisms. Since I moved over the dark side I have become more interested in the directions of post-secondary education, the evolution and development of on-line learning and new models of university governance and leadership. I currently serves on the boards of BCNet and the Canadian Virtual University. I am an avid outdoor enthusiast and mountain biker so don’t be surprised to see those kind of pictures in my blog.
Musing on Post-Secondary Education