Research Program
My interdisciplinary scholarship bridges social and medical sciences, translating knowledge across fields to deliver both rapid, practice-changing evidence and deeper theoretical insights. Learner agency and identity development are central to my work, shaped by my perspective as a woman, researcher, and person with a medical disability.
I study agency in the postdigital era — where digital and non-digital experiences intertwine to shape learning — through three guiding questions: How do we learn? Does technology influence learning? How does technology shape human agency?
Key Contributions
Areas of Focus
Postdigital Learner Agency
- — Advancing theory of learner agency in postdigital environments (Code, 2025)
- — Critically examining learning spaces and agency (Code et al., 2020, 2022)
- — Designing and assessing virtual environments to foster agency
- — Investigating psychosocial impacts of technology via public pedagogy
- — Developing methods for measuring agency and learning analytics
Patient Agency
- — Advancing theory of agency in cardiovascular research (Code, Lannon, & Lutrin, 2025)
- — Exploring patient agency through biomedical case studies (Theberge et al., 2025)
- — Autoethnographic inquiry into patient experience (Code, 2019, 2022)
- — Heart failure self-management and peer support technologies
- — Postdigital Learner Agency (Springer, 2026 — forthcoming)
- $3.5M+
- Total research funding
- 5
- Active grants
- SSHRC + CIHR
- Tri-council funded
- CRC
- Tier II · 2025–2030
Current Work
Active Projects
Past Work
Completed Projects
vCHAT-HF
Virtual Community for Health literacy, self-cAre, and peer supporT in Heart Failure — Pilot RCT
vCHAT-MH
Virtual Community for Health literacy focusing on Mental Health during COVID-19
Virtual Clinics for HF
Multi-centre RCT to improve quality of care and outcomes in heart failure through virtual clinics
From the Heart
Canadian women's lived experiences of heart failure — a CIHR Gender, Sex & Health project
Beyond the Academy
Professional agency and learning in virtual contexts, with Hikma Strategies
Personalized Health Apps
Improving heart failure outcomes through apps that support self-management and adherence
ALIVE Research Lab
Agency in Learning, Immersive & Virtual Environments · UBC
Interested in collaborating?
I welcome partnerships on funded research, community initiatives, and scholarly projects.