Champions

Trevor Hart, Faculty of Arts

Dr. Trevor Hart is the Director of the HIV Prevention Lab and Director of TMU’s new HOPE Centre for Gender and Sexual Minority People: the first and only Centre in Canada dedicated to combining health research aimed at understanding disparities in sexual and gender minority health, with the identification, testing, and implementation of counselling and other practice solutions for better health outcomes. 

Frank Russo, Faculty of Arts

Frank Russo is a Full Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Science of Music Auditory Research and Technology (SMART) Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research in the SMART Lab investigates the neuro-cognitive, neuro-affective, and socio-biological aspects of music, speech, and hearing. 

Anatoliy Gruzd, Ted Rogers School of Management

Professor Anatoliy Gruzd from the Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management. Grudz recognizes the importance and connection between open access publishing and the role of social media in promotion and dissemination of scholarly research, and regularly posts his research work in open formats. 

Jennifer Lapum, Faculty of Community Services

Jennifer Lapum is a Professor in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing and a leader and social justice advocate in the development and curricular integration of Open Educational Resources (OER) in post-secondary education. She has been a lead author and editor in the production of several e-textbooks that have involved creating original content combined with adapting and remixing existing OER. 

Paul Chafe and Aaron Tucker, Faculty of Arts

Paul Chafe and Aaron Tucker wanted to provide a free textbook to the over 1400 students who take SSH 205: Academic Writing and Research each year at Ryerson. They developed Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research.