Janice Tulk

Senior Research & Policy Advisor, Strategic Initiatives

Janice Esther Tulk is the Senior Research & Policy Advisor, Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the President at Cape Breton University. She has extensive experience in higher education as a researcher, administrator, and instructor. Her areas of expertise include strategic planning; grant- and proposal-writing; community-engaged research; research design and project management; Mi’kmaw music, history, culture, and ways of knowing; Indigenous tourism development and economic reconciliation; industrial soundscapes and expressive culture; and material culture, maker and DIY culture, and fibre arts in Cape Breton. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Memorial University (2008), an MA (Music) from University of Alberta (2003) and a B.Mus (Hons) from Memorial University (2001). Tulk was awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from SSHRC. In 2015, she completed the Certificate in University and College Administration from the Centre for Higher Education Research and Development at

Expertise:

Mi’kmaw music, history, culture, and ways of knowing; Indigenous tourism development and economic reconciliation; industrial soundscapes and expressive culture; material culture, maker and DIY culture, and fibre arts in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia