Shasta Carr-Harris

Ph.D. Student, Educational Administration

Before entering education, Shasta completed an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa (2002), a Certificate in International Affairs from New York University (2003), professional training at the Broadcast Journalism Summer Institute at Seneca College (2005), and spent 2 years in Pakistan where she worked for print and television news organizations. Shasta completed a Bachelor of Education degree at OISE/UT in 2009 and went on to teach in the United Kingdom in 2010 before returning to Canada to earn a Master of Education degree at OISE/UT (2012), with a focus on social networks in education.

In 2011, Shasta joined the Knowledge Mobilization team under the supervision of Dr. Ben Levin, and has since been involved with knowledge mobilization projects such as the Use of Online Research project, the Ontario Education Research Exchange (OERE) and Research Brokering in Education (RBE) projects, of which she is currently Project Manager. In February 2013, Shasta became the Program Manager for the Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research (KNAER), an Ontario Ministry of Education initiative that has supported 44 knowledge mobilization projects across the province.

Shasta began Ph.D. studies at OISE/UT in September 2012, with a focus on knowledge mobilization in education.

Feel free to get in touch!

Email: shasta.carr.harris@utoronto.ca

Twitter: @ShastaCH 

Carr-Harris, S., Osmond, P., Levin, B., Jao, L., Shah, S (2013). Making Research Accessible and Useful for Educators: The challenges of developing an online database of research summaries. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association San Francisco, California, April 27 – May 1, 2013. UserFiles/File/AERA2013_OEREPaper_April2_submitted.pdf

Tuters, S. Read, R. Carr-Harris, S., Anwar, A., Levin, B. (2012). Developing and launching an online hub to facilitate the exchange of advanced applied knowledge in education: The case of the OERE. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 139. http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/cjeap/currentissues.html#2012

Carr-Harris, S. (2012) Curriculum Making as Social Networking: The Case of High School Philosophy. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE). University of Waterloo, May 28, 2012.