Eva comes to her role as Research Lead and Senior Faculty at the Presencing Institute from higher education. She first connected with Theory U when she was a faculty member at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada teaching in the undergraduate (B.A. Human Relations) and graduate (M.A. Human Systems Intervention) programs. Inspired by the powerful learning she experienced in u-lab, she co-founded the Concordia U.lab Social Innovation Hub, a laboratory learning space bringing together undergraduate & graduate students, staff & faculty, and members of the local community as co-learners focused on transformative systems change. Over time, Eva began to collaborate with the Presencing Institute in research projects, including working in partnership to co-convene and co-facilitate the Social Field Research Summer School before joining PI full-time as Research Lead and faculty for u-lab 1x and 2x.

 

Eva brings to the work her passion for transformative learning and change. Earlier in her career, she worked for development training organizations Outward Bound Wales and Brathay Hall Trust in the United Kingdom, co-designing & delivering residential experiential learning and leadership programs focused on individual, group, and organizational development.

 

More recently, Eva and colleagues co-founded the Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change (JASC), an academic platform to encourage and make visible creative scholarship advancing this emerging field of research and practice. Currently she is Managing Editor of JASC.

 

Eva’s own research focuses on the concept of the social field—the collective inner dimension of experience—as a key leverage point for transformative change at the individual, group and systemic level. Her research has been published in the Journal of Applied Behavioural Science, Journal of Transformative Education, International Journal of Lifelong Education and the Organizational Development Review, among others.

She holds a B.A. (Hons) in Political Science from McGill University and a PhD in Education from Birmingham City University, and currently lives in Montreal with her husband and two sons.