Education News Autumn 2022 | Page 47

Postdoctoral Fellow Incentive Award
Queen Elizabeth II Centennial Aboriginal Scholarship
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships — Doctoral Program
Education News | Page 47

Postdoctoral Fellow Incentive Award

Dr . Needal Ghadi
Dr . Christine Massing
Dr . Needal Ghadi has been awarded the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow Incentive Award in the Faculty of Education . Dr . Christine Massing , who has co-published with Dr . Ghadi in four refereed journal articles , will serve as his Postdoctoral Fellow supervisor .
Ghadi completed his Ph . D . in the Faculty of Education in 2020 with the supervision of Dr . Andrea Sterzuk . Given his outstanding academic performance , the Faculty of Education nominated him for the Governor General Academic Gold Medal and he was the recipient of the Associate Dean ’ s Graduate Students Thesis Award in 2021 . Ghadi has co-published six journal articles and presented locally , nationally , and internationally .
Jessica Madiratta
Dr . Ghadi ' s doctoral study , “ documented the intersections between language learning and capital of Syrian men living in Regina ; finding that their established identities were eroded or altered due to the loss of their linguistic capital .”
As a Postdoctoral Fellow , Dr . Ghadi will extend his doctoral work to study the impact of COVID-19 on the language learning of adult Syrians in urban and rural Saskatchewan .

Queen Elizabeth II Centennial Aboriginal Scholarship

A Participatory Action Research Project – Improving Teaching Practices Through Professional Development in Culturally Responsive Teaching $ 20,000 for the 2022-2023 Queen Elizabeth II Centennial Aboriginal Scholarship .

SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships — Doctoral Program

Pimotehowin Nehiyawi Pimāisiwin : We Will Walk This Cree Way of Life . $ 105,000
Noela Crowe-Salazar