Student Opportunities
The following students are actively involved in research activities of the Centre.
Elizabeth Ocampo Gomez, PhD Candidate
Email: eocampo@ualberta.ca
Elizabeth Ocampo Gomez is a PhD candidate in the area of educational administration in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. Her masters thesis topic examined the use of financial technologies in the area of higher education in Mexico. She is a co-investigator on a series of projects examining financial reforms in the area of education in Latin America.
Darlene Himick, PhD Candidate
Email: dghimick@ucalgary.ca
Darlene Himick, a PhD student in Accounting, holds an MBA from Dalhousie University, an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Darlene's professional experience includes working as a pension investment consultant for Mercer Investment Consulting, and various legal roles in the public and private sectors.
Darlene plans to explore the emergence of defined contribution pension plans in Canada and overseas, using a theoretical framework drawn from critical accounting.
Linda Ambrosie, PhD Candidate
Email: linda.ambrosie@haskayne.ucalgary.ca
Linda Ambrosie is a PhD student in Tourism. She holds a Masters of International Business from the University of Paris-IX Dauphine and a B.Comm (Accounting) from the University of Alberta.
Following her B.Comm Linda worked overseas in South Korea for 2 years prior to her Masters degree in France and then returned to Canada to start her first business. While managing her business, she completed several graduate courses in Third World Development at Carleton University, Ottawa.
With a desire to return overseas, Linda departed for Douala, Cameroon to work as a college lecturer and researcher in Management at the PanAfrican Institute for Development training institutional trainers, and public and private middle managers. During the last two years in Sub-Saharan Africa she was an International Labour Office (ILO) Chief Technical Advisor responsible for a $1 million UNDP funded pilot project to promote entrepreneurship in informal sector women in Ougadougou, Burkina-Faso and Brazzaville-Congo.
After five years in Africa, Linda was given the opportunity to move to Mexico where for more than a decade she owned her own successful tour companies as well as restored and operated a boutique hotel. While in Mexico, Linda was a lecturer in Tourism at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, and consulted to several community organizations on entrepreneurship.
Linda's research interests are tourism policy and developing countries, and is currently supervised by Professor Brent Ritchie, Professorship in Tourism Management and Chair of the World Tourism Education and Research Centre (WTERC).