Pamela Richardson, Ph.D.

Pamela completed both her Masters and Doctorate in Special Education at the University of British Columbia with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to understanding giftedness. Drawing on Lewis Hyde’s notion of creative gift economy, contemporary literary and poetic writers, cross-genre arts-based inquiry methods and post-structural approaches to human development research, her work offers a fundamental questioning of how we research and relate to creativity and inner-gifts, and offers new possibilities for conceptualizing and living giftedness in subversive, fluid and inclusive terms.

Since 2001, she has taught at the high school and university level and worked as a counsellor. She has published her research into arts-based ways of understanding giftedness in scholarly journals and presented at national and international conferences. Pamela is a certified teacher through the BC College of Teachers.

Pamela was the founder and director of The Conversatorium, a learning studio for gifted kids and teens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

She is currently on faculty at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, n the School of Education and Technology, where she is head of the Masters in Educational Leadership program.