Barb Campbell Heads Webster Centre and Faculty Development Office

Dr. Vianne Timmons, Vice-President of Academic Development, is pleased to announce that Barb Campbell is the new Director of the Webster Centre for Teaching and Learning and the Faculty Development Office. Barb is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing. She was a nurse for 25 years before coming to UPEI in 1999. She has served as chair of the National Registered Nurses Exam, as a member of the Children's Health and Applied Research Team (CHART), and a member of the UPEI Honorary Degree and Hessian Award committees. Her areas of research are in knowledge translation, participatory action research, children's health, and immigrant health.

Over the past six years she has taught nursing courses in Ethics, Issues, Leadership, Population Health, and Advanced Practice. "Barb Campbell's teaching style, based on the Freirean principle of partnership, affirms the mutual and collaborative roles of teachers and learners. I am confident that she will be a great asset to the University in her new role," says Dr. Timmons.

Campbell aims to raise the profile of the Webster Centre by assisting faculty to become better teachers and students to become better learners. "Considering the costs involved for one to attend university, it is critical that we, as faculty, not only deliver a high standard of curriculum but that we do it with passion and commitment," she says.