Wendy Strachan, Ph.D.

Wendy has a long history of working to integrate writing into curriculum
across the disciplines and of collaborating with faculty. In 1995, she
joined the English Department at Simon Fraser University to teach courses in
academic writing and to assist individual student writers from across the
university in the former SFU Writing Centre. Over the past six years, she
has been involved in a number of large and small projects with faculty in
such disciplines as systems science, English, physics, political science and
philosophy. She has also developed workshops and consulted with PhD
students applying for doctoral fellowships from SSHRC.

In her role as an Educational Consultant with expertise in literacy
development and teaching writing and as Director of National Writing Project
sites in Asia, Athens and more recently Europe, she spent much of the
previous twenty years working with classroom teachers K-12 in all subject
areas, offering workshops and graduate courses in 34 countries and
approximately 50 schools. Much of this work has been with teachers in
American International Schools that have sizable bilingual and ethnically
diverse populations, but also she has worked locally in schools and with
teachers in British Columbia.

Wendy is an active member of professional organizations and has given
presentations at many scholarly and professional conferences. Her current
research interests are in the social contexts of genre acquisition, the
development of genre knowledge through writing-intensive courses, and the
factors and conditions that support faculty in making curriculum and
pedagogical change.

Wendy graduated with an MA from Michigan State University and a PhD in
Education from Simon Fraser University.