Andrea Webb

Biography

Dr. Webb spent a decade as a classroom teacher and department head before returning to higher education as a teacher educator. Her research interests lie in teaching and learning in higher education and she is involved in research projects related to Threshold Concepts, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and Social Studies Teacher Education. Currently, Andrea is Director of the UBC Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (https://isotl.ctlt.ubc.ca/), and Co-Director of Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives (https://visualnarratives.org/).

Selected Keynote and Invited Presentations

Webb, A.S. (2025, October). Opening Borders: Cultivating an Inclusive and Sustainable SoTL. Closing Keynote at Mount Royal University SoTL Symposium, Banff, AB, Canada.

al-Saud, A. Webb, A.S., Schallié,C. Ribbens, K., Dahmen, T., and Üngör, U.U. (2025, June). Visualising Survivors’ Voices. Spui25. Panel Presentation. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Webb, A.S. (2025, May 29). Hallmarks of SoTL. Invited Keynote address at SoTL Symposium, University of Manitoba.

Webb, A.S. (2025, February 18). Threshold concepts: Portals to thinking about curriculum. Invited talk for Guelph-Humber faculty. (Local)

Webb, A.S. (2025, January 30). But I Live: Educational materials to teach about The Holocaust. Educators’ workshop, Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Webb, A.S. (2024, June 12). Equity minded SoTL research design. Presentation for the University of Wisconsin Teaching Scholars Summer Program. University of Wisconsin, USA. 

Webb, A.S. (2024, May). Threshold Concepts in SoTL: Constraints and opportunities. Invited lecture. University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia.

Webb, A.S. (2023, November). Discipline Matters. Keynote. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Conference hosted from Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Webb, A.S. (2023, October). The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: In Conversation with Dr. Andrea Webb. Invited seminar. Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. (International)

Webb, A.S. (2023, May). SoTL Inquiry – Research Design, Methodology, & Dissemination. Invited presentation at the SoTL Shine Summit. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. (National)

Webb, A.S. (2022, March). HWU Programme directors: Recognising educational leadership. Invited presentation for Heriot Watt University Programme Directors Forum, Scotland, United Kingdom. (International)

Books and Edited Volumes

Webb, A.S. (Ed.). (2026). Arts-Based Holocaust Remembrance: A Resource for Educators. B.C. Campus Pressbooks.

Webb, A.S. (Ed.). (2025). New Horizons in Threshold Concepts. Conference Proceedings for the 10^th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference. Pressbooks BC Campus. https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/thresholdconceptsconference/part/new-horizons/  

Davies, J.P., Gironacci, E., McGowan, S., Nyamapfene, A., Rattray, J., Tierney, A.M., & Webb, A.S. (Eds.) (2024). Threshold Concepts in the Moment. Brill. https://brill.com/display/title/68395

Webb, A.S. (2024). But I Live Educators’ Resource. https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/butiliveresource/ B.C. Campus Pressbooks.

Chapters

Webb, A.S. (2025). Genocide. Learning to inquire in History, Geography, and Social Studies (Eds. Roland Case and Penney Clark). The Critical Thinking Consortium.

Webb, A.S., Kensington-Miller, B., Lewis, H., Maheux-Pelletier, G., Gansemer-Topf, A., & Hoffman, A. (2024). The importance of autonomy and community for SoTL engagement: How six scholars embraced change to assert their SoTL values and identity. Becoming a SoTL scholar (Eds. Janice Miller-Young & Nancy Chick). (pp. 268-293). NC: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning. doi.org/10.36284/celelon.oa6.

Selected Articles

Abrahamson, E., Webb, A.S., & Kensington-Miller, B. (2025). Introduction to the Special Section: Context Matters — Advancing SoTL through Collaborative Inquiry – the 2023 ICWG collection. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.13.48 

Lewis, H. & Webb, A.S. (2024). The SoTL scholar’s individual and collective journey: Navigating a cognitive and emotional transition. Transformative Dialogues, 17(2). https://journals.psu.edu/td/article/view/1875

Webb, A.S., Hubball, H.T., & Clarke, A. (2023). Fostering scholarly approaches to Peer Review of Teaching in a Research-Intensive University: Strategic development of a departmental SPRoT protocol. Global Research in Higher Education, 6(1). www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/grhe

Kensington-Miller, B., Webb, A.S., Maheux-Pelletier, G., Gansemer-Topf, A., Lewis, H., Hofmann, A., & Luu, J. (2022). Our international SoTL journey: Brokering across academic hierarchies and boundaries. Teaching in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2022.2070841

Gansemer-Topf, A.M., Webb, A.S., Kensington-Miller, B., Maheux-Pelletier, G., Lewis, H., Luu, J., & Hofmann, A.K. (2021). Navigating the chaos: The value of SoTL during times of uncertainty. Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal, 14(2), 30-40. Article 3. https://journals.kpu.ca/index.php/td/index

Webb, A.S. & Welsh, A.J. (2021). Serendipitous conversations: The 10-year journey in becoming SoTL scholars and educators. International Journal for Academic Development, 30(2), 248-261. 10.1080/1360144x.2021.1964510

Webb, A.S., Hubball, H.T., & McKenzie, M. (2021). Strategic approaches to glocalising curriculum: Responding to faculty development needs and circumstances in diverse university contexts. International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 13(2), 1209-1225. http://ijci.wcci-international.org/index.php/IJCI/article/view/271.

Courses Taught

• EDCP 332A – Social Studies Methodologies: Secondary 
• EDCP 542 – Theorizing Pedagogy
• International Program for the Scholarship of Educational Leadership (SoEL): UBC Certificate on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Higher Education