Scholarship of teaching and learning; qualitative research methods; NVivo coding; faculty development programs; inclusive teaching; approaches to decolonizing information literacy; inquiry-based learning design and assessment; research skill development in post-secondary education.

B.Music (Queen's); Postgraduate-diploma in Music (London, UK); MA Musicology (Western); MLS (Western); PhD (Wales, UK).

Awards:

• Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee of the Instruction Section of ACRL designation awarded to Student2Scholar, a set of ten online learning modules for graduate students, co-created with Western, University of Toronto OISE Library, and Queen’s. 2017.
• OCULA Award for Special Achievement, Ontario Library Association (2017)
• Ontario College and University Library Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
• Ontario College and University Faculty Association Academic Librarianship Award (2013)
• Liz Fox Distinguished Service Award, Queen’s University Librarians and Archivists Association. 2016

• Canadian Association of Music Libraries
• Ontario Council of University Libraries
• Queen's University Librarian and Archivist Association
• Senior Editor, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

Groen, J., Hoessler, C., Ives, C., Bamber, V., & Laverty, C., & Kolomitro, K. (2023). Evidencing the value of educational development: Charting a course on the waves and winds of change. To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.

Laverty, C. & Berish, F. (2022). Decolonizing librarians’ teaching practice: In search of a process and a pathway. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 8, 1-29.

Laverty, C., Kolomitro, K., & Kostyukov, J. (2022), Student perspectives on inclusive education: A framework for teaching and learning. In Taking Stock 2.0: Research on teaching and learning in higher education (pp. 69-92).  

Cai, B., Mainhood, L. A., Groome, R., Laverty, C., & McLean, A. (2021). Student behavior in undergraduate physics laboratories: Designing experiments. Physical Review Physics Education Research 17(2), 020109.

Kolomitro, K., Laverty, C., & Lee, E. A. (2020). Making learning visible: Research methods to uncover learning processes. In Critical reflection on research in teaching and learning (pp. 154-172). Brill Sense.

Dalgarno, N., Laverty, C., Egan, R., Garton, K., Soleas, E., Babando, J., & van Wylick, R. (2020). Participant perceptions of the faculty development Educational Research Series. Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 8(1), 221-245.

Yang, J., Jomaa, D., Islam, O., Mussari, B., Laverty, C., Kwan, B. (2020).  Competency-based medical education in radiology – A survey of medical student perceptions. Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/0846537119893663

Laverty, C., & Saleh, N, (2018). Cultivating a librarians’ community of practice: A reflective case study. In The grounded instruction librarian: Participating in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Washington, DC: Association of College and Research Libraries.

Paulson, E., & Laverty, C. (2018). Leveraging learning outcomes to build an online information literacy tool. Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. DOI: 10.1080/1533290X.2017.1415242

Openo, J., Laverty, C., Kolomitro, K., Borin, P., Goff, L, Stranach, M., & Gomaa, N. (2017). Bridging the divide: Leveraging the scholarship of teaching and learning for quality enhancement. Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 8(2), Article 6.

Laverty, C., & Paulson, E. (2017). From student to scholar: Building capacity for graduate student academic literacies and research skills. Open Shelf, Ontario Library Association. April 3