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MACP Instructor Dr. Sofia Georgiadou wins TAMFT 2024 Professor of the Year Award

Dr. Sofia Georgiadou (middle), Sophi Synek, and Lauren Godfrey all won an award at the annual TAMFT Conference and are holding their awards and smiling into the camera.

We are so excited to boost the signal and share in the celebrations that Yorkville University’s very own Dr. Sofia Georgiadou (Instructor, Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology) has won the 2024 Professor of the Year Award through the Texas Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (TAMFT). Dr. Georgiadou has won this Award in large part for her care-forward teaching work at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL) where she is also an Assistant Professor of Family Therapy in UHCL’s College of Human Sciences and Humanities.

Read the full article and story about Dr. Georgiadou

Matthew Dunleavy wearing a pink and purple polka-dot shirt under a grey blazer with red-framed glasses and a long reddish-brown beard smiling into the camera
Matthew Dunleavy

Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development

mdunleavy@yorkvilleu.ca 

Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.