Podcasting from Studio Yarah at Trinity Western University, host Dr. Scott Macklin, Executive Director TWU GLOBAL Online Learning, has released a new episode.
This week, Sonya Grypma, Vice Provost, Leadership & Graduate Studies and Dean of GLOBAL at Trinity Western University, is discussing well-being, care and history in Higher Education and beyond.
Dr. Grypma joined TWU in 2007 as a faculty member in the School of Nursing, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2012. She served as Dean of Nursing from 2013-2019.
Both a nurse and historian, Dr. Grypma has been a research fellow at UBC, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Virginia. Her program of research for the past 20 years has focused on transnational nursing history, particularly the intersection of Canadian, American and Chinese nursing networks developed through philanthropic, missionary and nursing organizations prior to 1948. She has been an invited keynote speaker on four continents, and has published three scholarly books on missionary history: Healing Henan (UBC Press, 2008); China Interrupted (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012), and a forthcoming, as yet untitled book on Canadian missions and nursing in wartime China (UBC Press, 2021).
Dr. Grypma is also a member of the TWU Executive Leadership Team, and is currently serving as the TWU Senior Health Advisor. She is also President of the Canadian Association for Schools of Nursing--Association canadienne des écoles de sciences infirmières.
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