Adjunct Professors

External Adjunct Professors

Dr. Heather Boynton, Adjunct Professor

Dr. Heather M. Boynton
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
2020-2024

Dr. Heather M. Boynton is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary at the Edmonton Campus. She has worked in the mental health field for 35+ years as a Child and Youth Worker, Social Worker, Manager, and Mental Health Consultant. With 36 publications, her research is focused on advancing knowledge for practice and education in spirituality and trauma, grief and loss, and mental health in social work. She is a member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and has $647,195.2 in funding and is a collaborator on the $1,980,640 SSHRC funded Transforming the Field Education Landscape: Intersections of Research and Practice in Canadian Social Work Field Education with 40 researchers. She co-edited the book Trauma, spirituality and posttraumatic growth in clinical social work practice. She has been a co-editor for a special edition of the Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought and is co-editing a special edition for the Religions Journal on Spirituality, Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth, and a second special edition in the Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work focusing on proceedings from the Ecospirituality Conference in Halifax which she co-chaired. She is the Vice President for the Canadian Society for Spirituality and Social Work.


Ms. Tracey Larocque
2020-2024

Dr. Kurt Smith
2020-2024

 

“Adjunct Professor” reflects a mutually beneficial scholarly association between the  University and the candidate. The duration of a renewal of an External Adjunct Professor appointment is flexible and may be up to a maximum of, but not exceed, four years.  

Rights and Responsibilities of an External Adjunct Professor 

External Adjunct Professors may: 

  • supervise or co-supervise the research work of students proceeding toward either a Baccalaureate or graduate degree, subject to all regulations pertaining to the student's  Academic Unit(s) and the Faculty of Graduate Studies, if applicable. 
  • be asked to give a seminar(s) or lecture(s) on a subject relevant to their expertise or to  participate in other activities pertaining closely to expertise in accordance with the  Academic Unit(s) requirements. 
  • be the Principal Investigator on external funding applications and be given signing  authority on a research account in accordance with the University’s policies.

External Adjunct Professors shall: 

  • attend those Academic Unit(s) meetings where their presence is requested. 
  • be responsible for arranging provision of resources, equipment, and services for the  successful completion of student research projects conducted under their co-supervision.