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As an instructor at Capilano College, Eleanor Boyle co-authored Effective College and University Teaching: A Practical Guide (Granville Island, 2006), with her husband Harley Rothstein. Their book is for all instructors who are striving to be excellent teachers. It is a call for higher-quality post-secondary teaching, the book is a resource at a time when students want and expect effective instruction. Eleanor Boyle and Harley Rothstein analyze and summarize the principles underlying good teaching at any academic level and in any discipline. They demonstrate how to organize, communicate, manage and evaluate in ways that will inspire and promote genuine learning.
As an instructor at the Centre for Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, with an MSc in Food Policy from City University in London, Eleanor Boyle has documented the economic, environmental and dietary consequences of modern, large-scale industrial meat production in High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat (New Society, 2012). Mostly reliant on factory farming, the average North American ingests more than 200 pounds of animal protein per year.
“Better pot-luck with Churchill today than humble pie under Hitler tomorrow. Don’t waste food!” reads a World War II poster produced by Britain’s Ministry of Food. The country’s historical wartime food rationing and other food programs helped win the war says Vancouver author Eleanor Boyle in Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today (FriesenPress, 2022). She argues that the lessons learned from that historical campaign can be used in the current “war” against climate change to reduce the environmental footprint of our food production and distribution. Boyle is a journalist and college instructor who speaks on how food systems can become healthy, sustainable and fair.
Boyle has an honors BA in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D in Neuroscience from UBC. She lives in Vancouver.
Photograph by Julie Doro.
BOOKS:
Essentials of College and University Teaching: A Practical Guide (Granville Island Publishing, 2006) 9781581070613. Co-authored with Harley Rothstein
High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat (New Society, 2012) $15.95 9780865717138
Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today (FriesenPress, 2022) $19.99 9781039123663
[BCBW 2023]
As an instructor at the Centre for Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, with an MSc in Food Policy from City University in London, Eleanor Boyle has documented the economic, environmental and dietary consequences of modern, large-scale industrial meat production in High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat (New Society, 2012). Mostly reliant on factory farming, the average North American ingests more than 200 pounds of animal protein per year.
“Better pot-luck with Churchill today than humble pie under Hitler tomorrow. Don’t waste food!” reads a World War II poster produced by Britain’s Ministry of Food. The country’s historical wartime food rationing and other food programs helped win the war says Vancouver author Eleanor Boyle in Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today (FriesenPress, 2022). She argues that the lessons learned from that historical campaign can be used in the current “war” against climate change to reduce the environmental footprint of our food production and distribution. Boyle is a journalist and college instructor who speaks on how food systems can become healthy, sustainable and fair.
Boyle has an honors BA in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D in Neuroscience from UBC. She lives in Vancouver.
Photograph by Julie Doro.
BOOKS:
Essentials of College and University Teaching: A Practical Guide (Granville Island Publishing, 2006) 9781581070613. Co-authored with Harley Rothstein
High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat (New Society, 2012) $15.95 9780865717138
Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today (FriesenPress, 2022) $19.99 9781039123663
[BCBW 2023]
