Jihan Rabah, Ph.D.

I have completed my PhD in Education at Concordia University. I currently hold a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from Mitacs. I was the recipient of a two-year Social Sciences Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship (2014-2016), David Azrieli Graduate Fellowship in 2013, and Judy and Morris Fish’s Graduate Scholarship in Education in 2012. I hold a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Educational Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Public Administration. I am also a certified project manager and qualified teacher with a project management certificate and a post-graduate diploma in Special Education. I have worked for various educational development projects funded by international NGOs such as UNICEF, Oxfam (Québec) and Save the Children (UK). In addition, over the last three years at Concordia, I have taught and assisted in teaching several MA and PhD classes in the Department of Education.

My pedagogical interest is grounded in both the theoretical and practical processes impacting the development of school curricula, specifically the integration of computer technologies therein. I am presently a research collaborator on many projects that are related to education and social media. I am a co-investigator on a two-year KANISHKA research project, funded by Public Safety Canada, that explores and makes visible the spread of hate speech through social media with the goal of developing educational curricula materials to build resilience against extremism in Canadian youth.

My professional experience has also included bringing practitioner/policy-maker perspectives to the issue of integrating digital technologies in educational environments. during the academic year 2013-2014, I was a research associate for the Advisory Board on English Education for the preparation of their advice to the Minister of Education, Recreation and Sport on the integration of technology across the nine Québec English school boards.