Encourage Your Students to Apply to the Upcoming Experiential Education Symposium
By Lisa Endersby & Sophie Bury
Join Lisa Endersby (Educational Developer & Acting Director of the YU Experience Hub) and Sophie Bury (Director of Learning Commons and Reference Services) as they promote the upcoming Experiential Education Symposium.
You can watch the video below, or directly from YouTube.
For more information, please visit https://www.yorku.ca/eesymposium/ or email eesteam@yorku.ca. Applications to present close on November 3, 2021.
The EE Symposium has also been featured in YFile: https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2021/10/26/experiential-education-symposium-committee-seeks-student-presenters/
About the Authors
Lisa Endersby holds a PhD in Educational Studies and serves as an Educational Developer in the Teaching Commons as the liaison developer for the Faculty of Health, the Schulich School of Business, and the Libraries. Her portfolio includes supporting all facets of experiential education pedagogy alongside facilitating opportunities for reflective professional development through observation, reading, and peer mentorship. Her research explores professional development within communities of practice, examining the impact of social learning on the negotiation of a professional identity for student affairs and higher educational professionals. Her professional and academic background also includes experience in career services, student leadership development, and supporting the first year student transition.
Sophie Bury is the Director of Learning Commons & Reference Services at York University Libraries. Prior to this she assumed the role of Head of the Bronfman Business Library at York University. She has a strong research interest in information literacy (IL) related issues, with a special focus in her presentation and publication work on the topic of faculty’s IL attitudes, perceptions and experiences of IL. Other research interests include academic literacies, including mainstreaming academic literacies in curricula in higher education.