Navigating Research Ethics and SoTL – Apr 30, 2025

Session Description

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) allows educators to systematically examine their teaching, preventing what Shulman (1999) described as “pedagogical amnesia,”—the tendency to forget valuable insights about our teaching from one term to the next. By engaging in SoTL, instructors can capture and revisit their teaching experiences, fostering continuous improvement.

This interactive session, Part IV of the 2024-2025 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Series, will focus on research ethics processes and planning at U of T. This session will emphasize that the ethics process itself can serve as a valuable tool for kick-starting one’s research and to develop a clear protocol that will serve for all research stages moving forward.

Facilitators:  

• Jayne Baker, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream & Associate Chair, Academic Sociology, and Chair of the Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Research Ethics Board
• Cora McCloy, PhD, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL, CTSI