Dr. Melody Viczko is an associate professor in critical policy studies in education at Western University. Her research examines multi-scalar governance in the study of how different levels of policy actors work together to make policy happen. Dr. Viczko has led international research partnerships, including a project on international refugee access to HE, and is currently leading a research project with a team of RAs and collaborators related to global policy issues and the post-pandemic university.

Dr. Viczko’s work is situated in the field of critical policy studies. Theoretically, her work draws on concepts of assemblage, multi-level and multi-scalar governance, governmentality, socio-materiality, policy enactment and controversies in education. Methodologically, her approach to critical policy studies research involves controversy mapping, post-structural discourse analysis and ethno-methodological studies of education policy.

Dr. Viczko received a PhD in Education Policy Studies from the University of Alberta, where she also worked as Program Coordinator for the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER), co-directed by Dr. Lynette Shultz and Dr. Ali A. Abdi. 

Dr. Viczko’s involvement in various professional activities include commitments to socially just practices in education.