Dr. Ron Srigley
Writer in Residence & Co-Investigator
Ron Srigley is the Writer in Residence of the Young Lives research Lab and Co-Investigator on the Youth in the Digital Age (Phase II) and Co-Developing the Digital Wellbeing Hub to Support Canadian Digital Citizenship projects.
Hi is a writer, scholar, and educator whose work spans philosophy, religious studies, and critical analysis of contemporary society and education. His essays have been featured in The Walrus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Education Canada, the MIT Technology Review, Canadian Dimension, and L’Obs, as well as in numerous scholarly journals. A professor, Dr. Srigley teaches in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Humber College in Toronto and the MBA program in Technology and Leadership at the Schulich School of Business of York University.
Dr. Srigley is the author of Albert Camus’s Critique of Modernity and Eric Voegelin’s Platonic Theology, and translator of Camus’s Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism. His Camus scholarship has helped to redefined the field, offering new insights into the structure of Camus’s corpus and his attempt to reimagine the Greeks political theory as an alternative to the progressivism of the Christian and modern traditions.
As Writer in Residence at the Young Lives Research Lab (YLRL), Dr. Srigley plays a key role in the Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing, engaging and training young participants in writing for impact and social change. As Co-Investigator on the SSHRC funded Youth in the Digital Age projects (Phases I and II) and the Heritage Canada funded Co-Creating a Digital Wellbeing Hub for Canadian Citizenship he supports participant engagement, data collection and co-analysis and development of knowledge mobilization outputs. He was a Co-Investigator on the Wekimün School Project where he supported the co-development of curriculum that was awarded the Oscar Romero Award for Human Rights Education. Along with the dissemination of critical research findings, he works with YLRL to cultivate young people’s ability to write and to articulate the meaning their experiences with an eye to mobilizing the findings of their co-created research and addressing the socio-ecological and digital challenges they face.
Dr. Srigley’s analysis of contemporary universities has resulted in the publication of several important essays – Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter’s Education, But Don’t, Whose University Is It, Anyway?, Learning the Hard Way, and The Fix: Inside Laurentian University’s Demise. These essays have helped to spark an international discussion of the state of post-secondary education. Dear Parents was the Los Angeles Review of Books’ most-read essay of 2016.
Across his teaching, writing, and research, Dr. Srigley’s work consistently explores the complexities of modern technological society, higher education, and the human condition. His contributions to both academic and public discourse continue to shape critical conversations about societal change and the role of education in fostering a better future.
Contact Dr. Ron Srigley: rsrigley@schulich.yorku.ca
Associations
American Political Science Association
Selected Publications
Available here.