Dorothy Agger-Gupta, Ph.D. 
Faculty Trustee & Doctoral Faculty - School of Leadership Studies | Fielding Graduate University
Victoria, BC, CANADA
Working together for a more just and equitable world through education, imagination, technology, and art
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Biography
Dr. Dorothy Agger-Gupta is Program Director and Professor in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA. Her international research and scholarship integrates digital technology and social media, healthcare systems, art, and social justice within organizations. Throughout her professional and academic career, she has worked within culturally and linguistically diverse communities. As a professor, she has supervised over 60 doctoral dissertations authored by students from several countries including Canada, Kenya, China, Colombia, Norway, the United Arab Emirates, United States, and Italy. Her research interests and publications involve art and social justice (particularly women’s art), leadership, phenomenography, action research, and variation theory within organizations and health care settings. Her extensive professional career includes technology and computer systems development, social and child welfare work, and art.
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Education/Learning
Research
Library and Information Management
Program Development
Health and Wellness
Information Technology and Services
Media - Online
Social Media
Publishing
Social Services
Areas of Expertise (22)
Phenomenography & Action Research
Organization Studies
Online Gaming and Leadership Competencies
Social Change & Women's Art
Organizational Innovation & Transformative Change
Media Information & Knowledge
Information Society & Knowledge Organizations
Women & Online Games
Games & Online Gaming
Variation Theory & Phenomenography
Virtual Collaboration
Healthcare Leadership
Virtual Research
Project Management
Systems Theory
Social Networks
International Leadership
Praxis
Art Based Research
Information Quality
Transnational Inquiry
Social Media & Social Change
Education (2)
University of Massachusetts, School of Management: PhD, Management Information Systems and Organizational Behaviour 1989
University of Massachusetts: BA, Psychology
Affiliations (6)
- Academy of Management
- Collaborative Action Research Network
- European Academic Research and Learning Institute (EARLI)
- EARLI SIG 9: Phenomenography and Variation Theory
- International Leadership Association
- Organization Development Network
Event Appearances (6)
Evidence Based Coaching - The Next Best Practices
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai Shanghai, China
2011-05-18
The world cafe as co-generative action research method
(October, 2014) Conference Workshop presented at the 16th Annual International Leadership Association Conference Hilton Bayfront Hotel, San Diego, California
Leadership, sinkholes, & planned change: Disciplinary knowledge & necessary conditions of scholar-practitioner graduate learning from the perspectives of phenomenography and variation theory
(September, 2014) Conference presentation presented at the Disciplinary knowledge and necessary conditions of learning: European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) SIG9 Phenomenography Conference Regent’s College, Oxford, UK
Phenomenographic action research: Improving practice through embracing variation
(November, 2013) Conference Workshop presented at the Collaborative Action Research Network Conference Tromso, Norway
Collaborative phenomenographic action research with multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual teams: University Health Network (UHN) project case study
(August, 2012) Conference Workshop presented at the European Association for Research on Learning & Instruction (EARLI) Special Interest Group 9 on Phenomenography & Variation Theory Biennial Conference Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden
Embracing variation: Building frameworks for leaders to promote integrity in organizations through discernment, dialogue, and analysis of variation
(March, 2011) Conference Workshop presented at the Western Academy of Management 2011 Conference Victoria, B.C., Canada
Articles (1)
Uncertain Frontiers
Handbook of Online Learning: Innovations in Higher Education and Corporate TrainingSitting in her kitchen in Wisconsin, with her children finally asleep, Linda—an accountant, single mother, and graduate student—turns on her computer and logs on to an online seminar on global leadership. She reads the entries posted by the professor, a public ...
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