Dr. Nazia Viceer

Life at SAIT

Nazia is Academic Chair for the Human Resource Management and Management streams of the BA and BBA programs. She has served as Interim Academic Chair for Accounting and instructor in the BBA and BA programs.

Nazia has been involved in the curriculum development of the Organizational Behavior course, intending to redesign, upgrade, and review from a student-focused lens.

Nazia is a people person and brings her broad experiences with effective and inclusive collaboration across academia and industry into her leadership style. She demonstrates compassion towards colleagues as it is her fervent belief that we can all learn together if imperfection is welcomed and people of all beliefs interact constructively and respectfully. She is an EDI champion and has recently organized a six-part EDI Series from May to September 2023 with 2 more sessions in 2024.

Education

She has a Project Management Associate Certificate from George Washington University, an E-Business Certificate from SAIT, and a BComm, BEd, MEd and EdD in Adult Education from the University of Calgary. She also secured the Yellow Belt certification with Go Lean Six Sigma and is professionally designated as a CPHR.

Professional accomplishments

Nazia’s PhD thesis examined a gendered perspective on patient educational resources and experiences. Most recently, Nazia has collaborated with the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in Dubai, UAE, on virtual student exchanges. She presents regularly at conferences across North America, Europe and the Middle East. This year, she has presented on Academic Integrity and Appreciative Inquiry at the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) in Toronto. She has also presented at Dubai's inaugural Conference on Academic and Research Integrity (ACARI 2023). Her research interests include virtual learning spaces, academic integrity, appreciative inquiry, effective feedback in the teaching and learning journey, student success in the healthcare space, creating communities of practice, and EDI. Nazia’s complete list of publications and conference presentations can be found below.

She received the 2023 SAITSA Instructor Excellence Award and won several scholarships as a sessional instructor and graduate student at the University of Calgary.

Research Interests

EDI; Appreciative Inquiry; Virtual Student Exchange; Healthcare patient experiences

Publications and Presentations

Peer-reviewed manuscripts

• Viceer, N., & Pandya, B. (2023). Evolution of the HCT-SAIT Virtual Student Exchange Using the COIL Approach. Innovation Showcase, 18(4). League for Innovation in the Community College.
• Cheryl Jeffs, Nancy Nelson, Kimberley A. Grant, Lorelli Nowell, Brit Paris & Nazia Viceer (2021) Feedback for teaching development: moving from a fixed to growth mindset, Professional Development in Education.
• Jeffs, C., Grant, K.A., Nelson, N., Nowell, L., Paris, B., & Viceer, N. (2020). Professional Development in Education - Manuscript ID RJIE-2019-0189.
• Nelson, N., Jeffs, C., Grant, K., Nowell, L., Paris, B., & Viceer, N. (2019). Fearful to 'Fear Less': Experiencing Feedback for Teaching Development.
• Jeffs, C., Grant, K.A., Nelson, N., Nowell, L., Paris, B., & Viceer, N. (2019). Exploring feedback literacy for academic development. The paper was accepted by the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vancouver, BC.
• Nelson, N., Jeffs, C., Grant, K. A., Nowell, L., Paris, B., & Viceer, N. (2019). Fearful to fear less: Experiencing feedback for teaching development. PRISM: University of Calgary Digital Repository. · Viceer N., Nelson G., Jacobsen M. (2019). Exploring how men and women approach patient educational resources and how this impacts patient experience within an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) program in colorectal surgery. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 31, 127.
• Ordons, A., de Groot, J., Rosenal, T., Viceer, N. Nixon, L. (2018). How clinicians integrate humanism in their clinical workplace ‘Just trying to put myself in their human being shoes.’ Perspectives on Medical Education, 7(5), 318-324. DOI: 10.1007/s40037-018-0455-4.

Conferences

• Viceer, N., Fillier, S. (2023). Academic Integrity and Appreciative Inquiry. Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE); University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Round Table Discussion.
• Viceer, N. & de Groot, J. (2021). A multi-faceted inter-professional education intervention to promote awareness of and address medical student mistreatment. Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. 34th Annual Sebastian K. Littmann Research Day.
• Lier, T., Yong, W., Viceer, N. (2021). Letter Writing Workshop for Nomination for Research Awards. Research Services Office, University of Calgary.
• Viceer, N., Yimbo, W. (2020). Unconscious Bias in the Research Environment for Researchers. Research Services Office, University of Calgary.
• Viceer, N. (2020). UB in the Research Ethics Environment for Researchers. Research Services Office, University of Calgary.
• Viceer, N., Kenyon, H. (2020). Getting in Touch with your Everyday Bias. Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Diversity Week, education, speaker.
• Viceer, N. (2020). EFW Professional Development Series; Human-Centered Interactions.
• Viceer, N. & Rizzuti, F. Guest speakers: Heirali, A., Moyeen, F. (2019). Radiology/Nursing/MRI/Reception/Nursing/Nuclear Medicine, Tech/X-Ray.
• Viceer, N. (2019). Implicit Bias Facilitator, Decolonizing Healthcare Congress Day, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.
• Viceer, N., Rizzuti, F., de Groot, J. (2019). Human-Centered Interactions, EFW Radiology. deGroot, J., Rizzuti, F., Viceer, N. Weeks, S., Heirali, A. (2019). Student Mistreatment. Department of Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Center, Foothills Medical Center.
• Bushe, K. and Viceer, N. Libin Theatre (2019). Student/preceptor Interactions for Medical Students. Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.
• Viceer, N. (2019). Student/preceptor Interactions, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, SAIT, Calgary, AB.
• Viceer, N. (2019). Student/preceptor interactions and unconscious bias, Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
• Viceer, N. (2019). Everyday Bias and Cultural Competencies, University of Calgary, Qatar Campus, Qatar, Doha, education, speaker.

Presentations

• Viceer, N., Rizzuti, F. (2023). Unconscious and Conscious Bias in the Classroom. EDI Series. Southern Institute of Alberta, School of Business.
• Viceer, N. (2021). Exploring male and female patient experience through patient education in the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery ® protocol or colorectal surgery. Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) AMEE 2021.
• Sayed, S., Keegan, D., Viceer, N., de Groot, J. (2021). Health educators' perspectives on mentoring to address professionalism challenges. Taylor Institute Conference of Teaching and Learning. Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning. University of Calgary.
• Viceer, N. Nelson, G., Groen, J., Jacobsen, M. (2020). Exploring patient experience in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery ®: A Sex and gender sensitive approach to patient education in colorectal surgery. Alberta Innovates. Alberta SPORS Support Unit. Summer Institute 2020. ACRA. Calgary, AB, Canada.
• Viceer, N. Saciragic, L., Nelson, G. (2020). The 5-minute surgeon: How Obstetrics & Gynecology residents learn from videos. OHMES Symposium 2020, Calgary, AB.
• Viceer, N. Saciragic, L., Nelson, G. (2020). The 5-minute surgeon: How Obstetrics & Gynecology residents learn from videos. Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). AMEE 2020, Glasgow, UK.
• De Groot, J., Weeks, S., Bushe, K., McPhalen, D., Rizzuti, F., Paget, M., Heirali, A., Viceer, N. (2020). An interprofessional educational intervention to heighten awareness of medical student mistreatment and its impact. AMEE 2020, Glasgow, UK.
• De Groot, J. Weeks, S., Bushe, K., McPhalen, D., Rizzuti, F., Paget, M. Heirali, A., Viceer, N. (2020). An interprofessional educational intervention to heighten awareness of medical student mistreatment and its impact. Association of Professionalism in Healthcare, Chicago, USA.
• Jeffs, C., Nelson, N., Paris, B., Viceer, N., Grant, K., Nowell, L. (2019). Dialogue towards and institutional culture of feedback literacy. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), Atlanta, GA.
• Jeffs, C., Nelson, N., Paris, B., Viceer, N., Grant, K., Nowell, L. (2019). Exploring feedback literacy for academic development. Congress 2019 of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE); Vancouver, B.C. Round Table Discussion.
• Viceer, N., Jacobsen, M. (2019). Exploring how men and women interact with patient education resources before and after surgery: Findings and Implications. Congress 2019 of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE); Vancouver, B.C. Round Table Discussion,
• Nelson, N., Jeffs, C., Grant, K. A., Nowell, L., Paris, B., & Viceer, N. (2019). Fearful to fear less: Experiencing feedback for teaching development. Poster presented at the University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, Calgary, AB.
• Viceer, N. (2019). Exploring how men and women approach patient educational resources and how this impacts patient experience within an Enhanced Recover Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Program in Colorectal Surgery. Congress of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery 2019. Liverpool, UK.
• Viceer, N. Heraili, A. (2019). Medical Student Mistreatment and How It Impacts the Learning Environment. Office of Health Medical Education Scholarship Symposium, education, speaker.
• Bushe, K., de Groot, J., Heraili, A., Viceer, N. (2019). Mistreatment in Medical schools. Cabin Fever; Distributed Learning and Rural Initiatives (DLRI). Cumming School of Medicine. Education, speaker.
• Viceer, N., Yimbo, W. (2019). Everyday Bias and Strategies You Can Apply. University of Calgary, Diversity Week, education, speaker.