Natalia Panina Beard, M.A.
Natalia Panina-Beard is a Trinity Western University Alumni (CPSY, 2009) and is a doctoral candidate in Human Development, Learning, and Culture in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. She completed her B.Sc. in Engineering in Volgograd, Russia, and her B.A. in Applied Psychology and her M.A. in Counselling Psychology in Canada. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and worked as a Clinical Counsellor with the Child and Youth Mental Health and as an Elementary School Counsellor.
Previously, her research was focused on young Aboriginal women’s experiences in educational settings. Her present research includes the educational engagement of children and youth from culturally diverse and disenfranchised backgrounds, creativity and art in education, and alternative educational programs.
Ph.D. Candidate, Human Development, Learning, and Culture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
M.A. Counselling Psychology, Trinity Western University, Langley, BC
B.A. Applied Psychology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC
B.Sc. of Engineering, Volgograd Polytechnic Institute, Russia
Expertise
English, Russian.
Alternative educational opportunities for creative learning.
Social innovation in education.
Play, imagination, and creativity.
Awards & Honors
UBC Faculty of Education 4-year Fellowship 2014-2018
Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarships ($105,000), 2014-2017
UBC Faculty of Education Ph.D. Program Entrance Scholarship ($11,000), 2012
UBC Faculty of Education Graduate Scholarship ($7,000), 2012
Canadian Psychological Association certificate of academic excellence for M.A. thesis research, 2010
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council graduate scholarship, ($17,500), 2007-2008
Trinity Western University yearly academic achievement awards($2,000), 2006-2008
Recent Publications
Vadeboncoeur, J., Perone, A., & Panina-Beard, N. (forthcoming). Creativity as a practice of freedom: Imaginative play, moral imagination, and the production of culture. Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research.
Panina-Beard, N. (2014). Learning from and with Aboriginal learners: Rethinking Aboriginal education in Canada. National Society for the Study of Education, 113(2), 465-492.
Panina-Beard, N. & Vadeboncoeur, J. (2013). Narrative therapy. EBSCO Research Starters. Ipswich, MA: EBSCO Publishing.
Panina-Beard, N. & Auton-Cuff, F. (2010). Striving for success: Educational and career aspiration experiences in the lives of young aboriginal women [Abstract]. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 8, 40-41.
EDUC 365 - Social Issues in Education