Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers for the Teaching and Learning Conference 2025: 

  • Dr. Sarah Eaton, Professor and Research Chair, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary 
  • Dr. Isabelle Côté, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Memorial University 

Visiting Keynote: Sarah Eaton

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Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD is a professor and research chair at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada and an Honorary Associate Professor, Deakin University, Australia. She has received research awards of excellence for her scholarship on academic integrity from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) (2020) and the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) (2022). She has written and presented extensively on academic integrity and ethics all over the world and is regularly invited as a media guest to talk about academic misconduct. 

Eaton is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity. Her books include Plagiarism in Higher Education: Tackling Tough Topics in Academic Integrity, Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge (Eaton and Christensen Hughes, eds.), Contract Cheating in Higher Education: Global Perspectives on Theory, Practice, and Policy (Eaton, Curtis, Stoesz, Clare, Rundle and Seeland, eds.) and Ethics and Integrity in Teacher Education (Eaton and Khan, eds.) and Fake Degrees and Fraudulent Credentials in Higher Education (Eaton, Carmichael and Pethrick, eds.). She is also the editor-in-chief of the Second Handbook of Academic Integrity (2024).

Memorial Keynote: Isabelle Côté

A headshot-style photo of Isabelle Côté. She is photographed from the mid-chest up and looking at the camera.

Isabelle Côté, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her work examines nativism in federal states, as well as the role of population movements on intrastate conflict and contentious politics in Asia and beyond. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) in Leiden, Netherlands. Prior to that, she held various guest researcher positions in China, Indonesia, Denmark and Sweden.

Côté has published in numerous journals in Political Science and Security and has co-edited two books: People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict and the State (Routledge, 2019) and Resettlement: Uprooting and Rebuilding Communities in Newfoundland and Labrador and Beyond (ISER Books, 2020). She was also awarded the 2024 Memorial University President’s Award for Teaching (faculty) and the 2020 Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Teaching Award. She is currently on the executive board of Women in International Security-Canada (WIIS-C) and is the co-program chair of the 2025 CPSA conference.