Jillianne
Code
Scholar and speaker on learner agency, postdigital education, and patient empowerment.
- 2500+
- Citations
- 60+
- Publications
- 4
- Active grants
- CRC
- Tier II · 2025–2030
Research Program
01
Postdigital Learner Agency
How learners exercise agency in postdigital environments — where the digital and physical are inseparable. Theoretical and empirical work informing a Springer volume in progress.
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Patient Agency
Empowering patients with heart failure and other chronic conditions to participate as knowledge producers and advocates in their own care — through HeartLife Foundation and the ALIVE Lab.
Learn about patient work →03
ALIVE Research Lab
The Agency in Learning, Interaction, and Virtual Environments Lab at UBC. Active projects include NARRATE, PATIENT-FOCUS, and PACE.
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My Broken
Heart
A documentary exploring the unknown, unexpected, and sometimes dire consequences of heart transplantation — and the patient voices that rarely make it into clinical conversations.
Jillianne's lived experience as a heart transplant recipient anchors her research in the realities of patient agency.
Learn moreLatest
- 2026-04publication
Expressions of Learner Agency in Virtual Inquiry – Computers & Education
- 2025-11publication
The Entangled Learner – Postdigital Science and Education
- 2025-10award
Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Learner Agency (2025–2030)
- 2025-09publication
Patient Agency in Action – Patient Education and Counceling
Who I work with
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