Sarah-Jean Watt

Sarah-Jean Watt (she/they) joined the Faculty of Graduate Studies as the Coordinator, Graduate Thesis and Academic Records, in 2026. The former Write Site Coordinator, Sarah-Jean brings a passion for supporting and encouraging student growth as writers and researchers to their work with thesis and dissertation students. Sarah-Jean’s role in FGS is to oversee thesis and exams processes, collaborate with graduate programs for the best student supports, and coordinate communications and support for a variety of events designed to help graduate students at AU develop professionally and network across the AU community. Sarah-Jean is an avid reader, a big animal-lover, an experimental poet, and a questionable gardener.

If you experience any barriers in your graduate work, you are welcome to contact Sarah-Jean for support.

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Research interests

• Alternative approaches to academic integrity and citation
• Alternative approaches to academic writing
• Authentic and multi-modal theses/dissertations
• Better asynchronous feedback practices
• Positive comments in asynchronous feedback
• Representations of collective knowledge in speculative fiction
• Genre fiction

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Educational credentials

• Graduate Certificate, Leadership and Management Development, Athabasca University
• Master of Arts, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, McMaster University
• Bachelor of Arts, 1st Class Honours, English, University of Calgary

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