How did you become interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning?

I have worked in education for 45 years. For 28 years my work was within correctional/prison education. In that world, curriculum design and delivery is governed by a process of gap analysis. In that context, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has been a lifelong interest. As a late-in-life academic, I have spent the last 15 years exploring how to be a more timely, relevant, and engaging classroom teacher within the academy

What keeps you engaged or motivates you in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning?

I’m motivated by the amazing moments where something I try for the first time energizes the classroom.

What projects are you currently working on or hope to work on in the near future?

My current work is around the challenges of creating a decolonizing curriculum. In the next year or so the work will include research around the outcome effects of Trent’s undergraduate Indigenous Content Requirement course requirements for students studying business.

SoTL publications or presentations:

Newhouse, D. & Quantick, R. (2026). Engaging UDL in a first-year Indigenous Studies course. In D. Stillwell, D. Capell, S. Ferguson, & A. Yagnaya (Eds.), Case Studies in Universal Design for Learning. eCampus Ontario. 

SoTL interests:

• Qualitative methods
• Mixed methods
• Assessment
• Student engagement
• Indigenous pedagogies
• UDL and accessible pedagogies