Dr. Fiona Blaikie is Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of Education at Brock University; former Director of the Joint PhD in Educational Studies Program, and former Chair of Graduate Studies and Research (at Lakehead University). She has won numerous awards, most recently the USSEA/InSEA International Ziegfeld Award. Fiona’s current scholarship in visual arts education focuses on new materialities, situated feminist ontologies, and posthumanism. Her edited collection, Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults was published (2021) by Routledge. Currently, Fiona is Co-Chair of the Arts Education Research Institute (AERI) and Associate Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University.
Areas of Expertise:
– Visual art education
– Qualitative research including arts-informed educational research
– Social theory on the body and clothing
– Youth culture
– Qualitative approaches to portfolio assessment
– Curriculum development and implementation
– Aesthetics
– Embodied knowledge/s
– Intersectionality
– Youth identity constructs