Tehmina Khwaja
(She/Her)
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 EDIVancouver Island University, Nanaimo, CanadaNov 2019 - Aug 2021
- Visiting ScholarUniversity of Toronto, OISE, Toronto, CanadaJul 2019 - Nov 2019
- Assistant ProfessorCOMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, PakistanOct 2015 - Sep 2017
- Graduate Research AssistantThe College of William and Mary, School of Education, Williamsburg, United StatesAug 2011 - May 2015
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Director, Equity, Diversity, and InclusionCamosun College, Victoria, CanadaJan 2024 - May 2025
- EDI SpecialistThompson Rivers University, Kamloops, CanadaAug 2021 - Dec 2023
DEGREES
- PhD Educational Policy, Planning and Leadership in Higher EducationThe College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, United States
- MPhil American StudiesQuaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
- MA English LiteratureUniversity of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
CERTIFICATIONS
- Understanding Indigenous PeoplesCamosun College, Victoria, CanadaDec 2024This 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 CertificateThompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada2022I am a certified trainer in anti-discrimination response. This training was developed and provided by Dr. Ishu Ishiyama of UBC.
- NVivo Certified ExpertVancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada2023
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Postdoctoral FellowVancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada1 Nov 2019 - 31 Aug 2021Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)Postdoctoral FellowshipSupervised by Wager ACW
LANGUAGES
- EnglishCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- UrduCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- Panjabi; PunjabiCan read, write, speak and understand