Who We Are
For general information contact us at policystudies@kwantlen.ca
Or get in touch with us individually:
Heather Harrison, M.A., Policy Studies Chair
Heather has been an instructor in the Philosophy Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University for over ten years. She is passionate about creating a rich and stimulating learning environment for her students. Her current work is in applied ethics focuses on the issue of the use of persuasion in political communication. She is politically active and has run for civic office in Vancouver. Currently, Heather is the co-chair of the Social Justice Policy Committee, and is the Vice President and liaison for the Standing Committee on the Environment for the Provincial NDP.
heather.harrison@kwantlen.ca; 604-599-2580 or 778-378-9077
Warren Bourgeois, Ph.D.
Warren is a professor of philosophy who received his doctorate at the University of California, Irvine. He has taught at the University of Salzburg, Austria, the University of California, San Diego, the University of British Columbia, and now teaches at Kwantlen Polytechnic University where he chairs the Research Ethics Board. Since 1977 he has been a director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. He has helped to found and served on two hospital ethics committees locally. Among his published writings is the book Persons: What Philosophers Say About You released in its second edition by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2003. His current project is an online textbook in Bioethics.
Warren.bourgeois@kwantlen.ca; 604-599-2188
Ari Goelman, Ph.D.
Ari has been an instructor at Kwantlen's School of Business in the department of Business Quantitative Methods since September, 2008. In addition to his work at Kwantlen, he has taught graduate classes in research methods at UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning and at SFU's Department of Urban Studies. His research looks at the use of information and communication technologies to change work, with a particular focus on the health care workplace. Ari received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Urban Studies) in 2005.
Gregory Millard, Ph.D.
Before joining Kwantlen's Political Science Department, which he currently chairs, Greg taught at Queen's and Simon Fraser Universities. He is the author of numerous publications, including Secession and Self: Quebec in Canadian Thought, which was short listed for the 2009 Donald V. Smiley Prize for best English language book in the field of Canadian political science.
Greg.millard@kwantlen.ca; 604-599-302
Arleigh Reichl, Ph.D.
Arleigh has been an instructor in the Department of Psychology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University for the past 14 years. His areas of specialization are attitudes, persuasion and compliance; advertising and gender; inter- and intra-group processes; research methods and statistics.
Arleigh.reichl@kwantlen.ca; 604-599-2505
Paul Richard, Ph.D., P.Ag.
Paul has been a Kwantlen instructor since 1993 and the chair of the Environmental Protection Technology Program since 2003. He has also taught undergraduate and graduate classes as assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, where he received his Ph.D, and at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. He is active in the environmental community and his research interests revolve around environmental aspects of agriculture. His current project involves the application of compost lixiviate to reduce pesticide use in field crops in Cuba.
Paul.richard@kwantlen.ca; 604-599-2556
Sinisa Vujovic, M.Sc.
Sinisa has been teaching in Kwantlen's Economics Department for the past seven years. His teaching interests span from basics courses to Business Economics and Money and Banking. Before coming to Kwantlen, Sinisa worked in the corporate finance sector also worked at the Institute of Economics in Zagreb, Croatia. His strong interest in sustainability complements his daily engagement with West End Neighbours in a continued effort to preserve sustainability and liveability in Vancouver's West End.
Sinisa.vujovic@kwantlen.ca; 604-599-2619
