Cindy Brooks

Biography

Cindy teaches students in a variety of disciplines at Red Deer Polytechnic. She loves seeing these students realize how communication theory informs practical, interpersonal skills and how useful these skills can be in their personal and professional lives. Cindy’s master's thesis, “Sense-making and Organizational Change,” focuses on how people in a workplace make sense of and communicate about organizational change.  

This research stimulated Cindy’s lifelong interest in how people share meaning and collaborate to get work done which translates well to her teaching courses in communication theory, business writing, college writing and interpersonal and group communication. Other research includes delivery modes and narrative structures of television and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.  

Cindy’s Red Deer Polytechnic service has included being the Program Head of the Media Studies & Professional Communication program as well as sitting on the Faculty Performance Committee and the Faculty Association of Red Deer Polytechnic. She has also been a Peer Observer and Small Group Instructional Feedback Facilitator.   

Education

• M.A. (Communication Studies), University of Calgary
• B.A. (English), University of Alberta