HELLO, I'M SETH.

I teach Educational Research, Sociocultural Foundations of Education and Comparative and International Education at Lakehead University in Canada. I spent 10 years at the Thunder Bay Campus and moved to the Orillia Campus in 2014. In his present position at Lakehead University, I am a member of the core faculty for the PhD and Research Masters Programs. Prior to his present position, I taught at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam and at Pacific University in Oregon, U.S.A., where I was Director of the Teacher Education and International programs for 4 years. I obtained my Ph.D. in Educational Studies with specialization in leadership and policy studies from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. My research interests include leadership and policy studies; comparative and international education with emphasis on critical policy analysis of the role of education for social justice; lifelong learning and higher education policy; community-school relationships and teacher effectiveness. Since 2000, I have presented over 70 papers at international conferences and have published several peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles and book chapters. I am an international ambassador of Lakehead University. In 2011, I was a visiting professor at the Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, UK. I spent my 2018/19 sabbatical year as a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where I was a co-applicant for a grant on developing smart cities, a project that took me and my Glasgow colleagues to Kyrgyzstan and India in December 2018. Since 2011, I have made 12 visits to post-Soviet states, particularly Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan where I have been offering lectures to faculty and graduate students on doing research and publishing in peer-reviewed journals. I have facilitated the development of connections between the International Office at Lakehead University and institutions in Kazakhstan  to cooperate in student and faculty exchange activities. Currently, my research is focused on policies regarding teaching English as a foreign language in post-Soviet states.