Joelle Rodway​

Dr. Joelle Rodway is the founder and director of the NET Lab: Networks for Educational Transformation, a research lab that examines the role of social networks in mediating leadership and policy efforts for school and system improvement. In particular, she focuses on professional learning networks and how the exchange of social capital facilitates and constrains knowledge mobilization in support of educational change.

Joelle holds a BEd from the University of Alberta and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. She joined Ontario Tech University as Associate Professor in Leadership & Education in September 2023. Prior to this appointment, she was Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership Studies at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador where she received a School of Graduate Studies ROCKStar Award for exemplary graduate student supervision. She began her education career as an intermediate/senior French and English teacher in the Durham District School Board in 2001 and she taught in the International Baccalaureate Middle Years and Diploma Programmes at the Canadian International School in Singapore.