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Tehmina Khwaja

(She/Her)

Assistant Professor

Education

Orcid identifier0000-0002-2405-0534
  • Assistant Professor
    Education

BIO

Dr. Tehmina Khwaja is an educator, scholar-practitioner, administrator and advocate with more than 15 years’ experience in teaching, mentoring and coaching, facilitating culturally responsive dialogue in international academic settings. Her research interests include higher education leadership; gender and intersectionality; equity, diversity and inclusion; communities of practice; academic organizational culture; and qualitative methods.

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Postdoctoral Fellow EDI
    Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, CanadaNov 2019 - Aug 2021
  • Visiting Scholar
    University of Toronto, OISE, Toronto, CanadaJul 2019 - Nov 2019
  • Assistant Professor
    COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, PakistanOct 2015 - Sep 2017
  • Graduate Research Assistant
    The College of William and Mary, School of Education, Williamsburg, United StatesAug 2011 - May 2015

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
    Camosun College, Victoria, CanadaJan 2024 - May 2025
  • EDI Specialist
    Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, CanadaAug 2021 - Dec 2023

DEGREES

  • PhD Educational Policy, Planning and Leadership in Higher Education
    The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, United States
  • MPhil American Studies
    Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • MA English Literature
    University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Understanding Indigenous Peoples
    Camosun College, Victoria, CanadaDec 2024
    This was a semester long course for Camosun College staff that covered a range of topics from personalizing land acknowledgements to incorporating indigenization in administrative work.
  • Anti-discrimination Response Training Certificate
    Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada2022
    I am a certified trainer in anti-discrimination response. This training was developed and provided by Dr. Ishu Ishiyama of UBC.
  • NVivo Certified Expert
    Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada2023

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada1 Nov 2019 - 31 Aug 2021
    Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)Postdoctoral FellowshipSupervised by Wager ACW

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Urdu
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Panjabi; Punjabi
    Can read, write, speak and understand