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Dr. Barbara Campbell

Director, Webster Centre and Faculty Development Office

Dr. Campbell is the Director of the UPEI Webster Centre for Teaching and Learning, the Faculty Development Office; Associate Professor with the UPEI School of Nursing; and Adjunct Professor at the University of New Brunswick in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Through her doctoral work “Participatory Action Research: Knowledge Translation of Children’s Health in a Rural Community,” she developed and subsequently published her conceptual framework in knowledge translation.  

Her areas of research include knowledge translation, family and newcomers' literacy, and the uses of technology with new learners to higher education. She is a member of Knowledge Translation Canada: A CIHR Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research (STIHR), and part of a team investigating ‘Writing the Digital Economy: Shifting Contexts, Practices, and Beliefs’ funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She also works with UPEI Science faculty to conduct faculty development at the University of Namibia.  

Dr. Campbell teaches a graduate course in knowledge translation with the Atlantic Regional Training Centre, as well as two Nursing leadership courses at UPEI in online and blended modalities. She has authored 19 peer-reviewed publications, is a member of the Learning Disabilities Association of PEI, and a volunteer with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of PEI having co-authored the PEI Integrated Stroke Strategy.