Meaghan Dougherty

Faculty Researcher
Applied Community Studies
Child and Youth Care
  • education
  • pedagogy
  • child & youth care
  • research methodology
  • leadership

Education summary

  • EdD, Simon Fraser
  • MA, Simon Fraser
  • B.Crim.(Hons.), Simon Fraser

Research summary

Meaghan Dougherty, Ed.D., is faculty at 秋霞伦理 in the Department of Child and Youth Care. Meaghan is grateful to live on and learn from the traditional, shared, and unceded territories of the 拧x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹ma蓙涩 t蓹m蓹x史 (Musqueam),鈥疭kwxw煤7mesh-ulh Tem铆x瘫w (Squamish),鈥痵蓹l虛ilw蓹ta蓙涩 t蓹m蓹x史 (Tsleil-Waututh),S鈥櫭砽h T茅m茅xw (St贸:l艒),鈥疌ayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla people. She has a responsibility to the generations before and after her and with that in mind, she tries to walk lightly on the land and do good work. Meaghan鈥檚 research interests include imagination and educational leadership, the complex relationship between education and the labour market, relational practice and teaching and learning encounters, and using relational and performative ontologies and methodologies that explore more-than-human entanglements. Most recent projects include:鈥The Need to Get Somewhere Fast: A Critical Examination of the Transition from Post-secondary Education to Work鈥(DIO Press, 2022) and co-editing鈥Cultivating Imagination in Leadership: Transforming Schools and Communities鈥(Teachers鈥 College Press, 2023) with Gillian Judson. Current work includes exploring imagination as a tool in promoting equity and justice in leadership education and facilitating a SSHRC-funded knowledge mobilization project: .

Publications and other research outputs

  • Judson, G., &鈥Dougherty, M.鈥(forthcoming). Imagination as a catalyst for relational leadership: Educational leaders' perspectives.鈥International Journal of Leadership in Education.
  • Judson, G., &鈥Dougherty, M.鈥(2023). (Eds.).鈥Cultivating imagination in leadership: Transforming schools and communities.鈥Teachers College Press.
  • Dougherty, M.鈥(2022).鈥Need to get somewhere fast: A critical examination of the transition from post-secondary education to work.鈥疍IO Press.
  • Dougherty, M.鈥(2022). Reconceptualising the transition from post-secondary education to work.鈥疛ournal of Education and Work, 35(3), 241-255.鈥
  • Dougherty, M.鈥(2021). Reflections: The relational practice of teaching and learning.鈥Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 27(1), 49-63.鈥
  • Cox, R.D., &鈥疍ougherty, M.鈥(2018). (Mis)measuring developmental math success: Classroom participants鈥 perspectives on learning.鈥 Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 43(4), 245-261. doi: 10.1080/10668926.2018.1456378
  • Cox, R.D.,鈥疍ougherty, M., Hampton, S., Neigel, C., and Nickel, K. (2017). Does this feel empowering? Using m茅tissage to explore the effects of critical pedagogy.鈥 International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 8(1), 33-57.鈥

Courses taught

Ongoing projects

  • SSHRC-funded knowledge mobilization project: .