Scott Mealey, PhD

Associate Director Dr Scott Mealey is the Associate Director of the Canadian Institute for Empirical Church Research, which marries his passion for mixed method research and his longing for an impactful Canadian Church. Scott served for nearly fifteen years as a pastor on the East Coast, including twelve years as a church planter to Millennials with little church background. He returned to academia full-time in 2012 and his doctoral dissertation examined the evidence for how theatre does/does not change its spectators. His empirical approach and focus on emic sense-making has led to SSHRC-funded collaborations and publications in Contemporary Theatre Review, TRiC, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. He serves as a co-director of the Centre for Spectatorship and Audience Research and has consulted with faith-based, educational, and activist organizations. Scott loves teaching and has taught practice, theory, and history at Crandall University, Humber College, and the University of Toronto where he continues as a Sessional II instructor.

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