Dr. Lynn Butler-Kisber

Lynn Butler-Kisber (B.Ed., M.Ed., McGill; Ed.D. Harvard) is a Professor of Education in the Department of Integrated Studies at McGill University. Her teaching and research focus on qualitative research methodologies; leadership, multiliteracies; and professional development. She is particularly interested in arts-based methodologies, more specifically in visual inquiry (collage, photo/film and visual narratives) and in poetic inquiry on which she has written and presented extensively. She focuses on issues of marginalization, equity and social justice. Some recent publications include Poetic inquiries of reflection and renewal: Poetry as research (2017), with Guiney Yallop, Stewart & Wiebe; the second edition of her book, Qualitative Inquiry: Thematic, narrative and arts-based perspectives (Sage 2018) and Collage-making, in the 2019 Sage research methods foundations (edited by Atkinson, Delacourt et al.). She is founding (2007) and current Editor of the LEARNing Landscapes, an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal that integrates theory and practice, encourages multi-modal submissions and the inclusion of a variety of voices. Current projects include: The NEXTschool Initiative; the Human Displacement and Narrative inquiry Project; the Climate adaptation and resilient development: Policy, research and practice project (Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill) and the Sage research methods and NVivo community project. She has done a range of community-based research projects locally as well as international research and development projects in Dominican Republic, China, Indonesia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, and in the UK and USA.