Lauren’s superior teaching competencies are demonstrable in the areas of sustainability, global development, international business, commodity supply chains, the food industry, research methods, and project management and evaluation. Her undergraduate and graduate courses have included unique community placements, immersive field schools, innovative skills-based assignments, and comprehensive approaches to active learning that have advanced learning outcomes for colleges, departments, and programs. Students praise her passion, her capacity to stimulate learning through case studies, and her attentiveness to ‘real world’ scenarios. Lauren has engaged in undergraduate and graduate advising, and has considerable experience as a student writing and communications instructor. She has also developed and updated teaching manual materials for a leading textbook in the field of international development studies.
Courses instructed in 2023
2023 Course instructor for BUS 6600 Sustainable Value Creation. Gordon S. Lang School of Business, University of Guelph.
2023 Course instructor for IDEV 1000DE Understanding Development and Global Inequalities [Summer]. Guelph Institute of Development Studies, University of Guelph.
2023 Course instructor for IDEV 6850 Development Research and Practice. Guelph Institute of Development Studies, University of Guelph.
2023 Course instructor for IDEV 3400 Managing and Evaluating Change in Development. Guelph Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), University of Guelph.
2023 Course instructor for SOAN 3070 Qualitative and Observational Methods. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph.
2023 Course instructor for ANTH 1150 Introduction to Anthropology. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph.
2023 Course instructor for IDEV 1000DE Understanding Development and Global Inequalities [Winter]. Guelph Institute of Development Studies, University of Guelph.
Courses previously instructed at Guelph
2022 Course instructor for BUS 6300DE Business Practices for Sustainability. Gordon S. Lang School of Business, University of Guelph.
2022 Course instructor for IDEV 1000DE Understanding Development and Global Inequalities [Fall]. Guelph Institute of Development Studies, University of Guelph.
2022 Course instructor for GEOG 2230 Commodity Chains and Cultures of Consumption. Department of Geography, Environment & Geomatics, University of Guelph.
2022 Course instructor for IDEV 2000 The Development Landscape: Actors and Institutions. Guelph Institute of Development Studies, University of Guelph.
2022 Course instructor for ANTH 1150 Introduction to Anthropology. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph.
2022 Course instructor for IDEV 1000DE Understanding Development and Global Inequalities [Summer]. Guelph Institute of Development Studies, University of Guelph.
2022 Course instructor for FRAN 6020 Qualitative Research Methods. Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph.
2022 Course instructor for POLS 6390 Resource Scarcity and Environmental Conflict. Department of Political Science, University of Guelph.
2022 Course instructor for GEOG 6340 Human-Environment Relations. Department of Geography, Environment & Geomatics, University of Guelph.
2022 Course instructor NUTR 3110 Food Security [with Chalmers community partnership]. Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph.
2022 Course instructor for IDEV 3400 Managing and Evaluating Change in Development. Guelph Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), University of Guelph.
2021 Course instructor for GEOG 3320 Food Systems: Issues in Security & Sustainability. Department of Geography, University of Guelph.
2021 Course instructor for IDEV 2100 Research in International Development. Guelph Institute of Development Studies, University of Guelph.
2021 Course instructor for GEOG 2230 Commodity Chains and Cultures of Consumption. Department of Geography, University of Guelph.
2021 Course instructor for GEOG 1200 Society and Space, Department of Geography, University of Guelph.
2021 Course instructor for ANTH 1150 Introduction to Anthropology. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph.
2021 Course instructor for FRAN 6020 Qualitative Research Methods. Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph.
2021 Course instructor for SOAN 3070 (01) Qualitative and Observational Methods. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph.
2021 Course instructor for NUTR 3110 Food Security [with WDG public health community partnership]. Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph.
2020 Course instructor for SOAN 3680 Perspectives on Development. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph.
2020 Course instructor for POLS 6390 Resource Scarcity and Environmental Conflict. Department of Political Science, University of Guelph.
2020 Course instructor for OAGR 4180 Social Issues in Organic Agriculture. School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph.
2020 Course instructor for NUTR 4900 Selected Topics in Human Nutrition – International Nutrition [Nutrition and Dietary Transitions in the Global South]. Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph.
2020 Course instructor for NUTR 3110 Food Security [with student community placements]. Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph.
2020 Course instructor for SOAN 3070 (02) Qualitative and Observational Methods. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph.
2019 Course instructor for POLS 6730 Development and Global Justice. Department of Political Science, University of Guelph (7 students).
2019 Course instructor for SOAN 3680 Perspectives on Development. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph (45 students).
2019 Course instructor for ANTH 2230 Regional Ethnography [Food Markets]. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph (110 students).
2019 Course instructor for IDEV 3500 (02) Yukon Field School on Food Security in Northern Canada. Guelph Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), University of Guelph (22 students).
2019 Course instructor for POLS 6390 Resource Scarcity and Environmental Conflict. Department of Political Science, University of Guelph (4 students).
2019 Course instructor for POLS 4300/6530 Human Rights, Ethics and Development. Department of Political Science, University of Guelph (20 students).
2019 Course instructor for IDEV 3400 Managing and Evaluating Change in Development. Guelph Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), University of Guelph (34 students).
2018 Course instructor for SOAN 3680 Perspectives on Development. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph (50 students).
2018 Course instructor for ANTH 2230 Regional Ethnography [Food Markets]. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph (112 students).
2018 Course instructor for IDEV 2500 International Development. International Development Studies, University of Guelph (110 students).
2018 Course instructor for IDEV 4500 International Development Seminar. International Development Studies, University of Guelph (30 students).
2017 Course instructor for SOAN 3680 Perspectives on Development. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph (50 students).
2017 Course instructor for FARE 3250 Food, Nutrition and International Development. Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Guelph (50 students).
2017 Course instructor for POLS 6750 Development in Practice. Department of Political Science, University of Guelph (11 students; 10 MA and 1 PhD).
2016 Course instructor for FARE 3250 Food, Nutrition and International Development. Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Guelph (44 students).
2015 Course instructor for GEOG 3050 Development and the City. Department of Geography, University of Guelph (167 students).
2014 Course instructor for GEOG 3320 Food Systems: Issues in Security and Sustainability. Department of Geography, University of Guelph (54 students).
University of Guelph Study and Development Fellowship
2020 “Teaching in multidisciplinary classrooms: Exploring past lessons and developing future techniques for engaged learning on food, environment and development.”
Food, Environment and Development Courses Previously Instructed Beyond Guelph
McMaster Department of Anthropology
2018 Course instructor for 2AN3 Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Department of Anthropology, McMaster University (150 students).
St. Francis Xavier University Development Studies Program [CL Appointment]
2016 Course instructor for DEVS 311 Development in Practice. Development Studies Program, St. Francis Xavier University (13 students).
2016 Course instructor for DEVS 303 Topics in Globalization and Development. Development Studies Program, St. Francis Xavier University (23 students).
2016 Course instructor for DEVS 201 Introduction to Development: The Global South. Development Studies Program, St. Francis Xavier University (49 students).
2015 Course instructor for DEVS 401 Theories of Development. Development Studies Program, St. Francis Xavier University (13 students).
2015 Course instructor for DEVS 391 Cities, Urbanization and Development. Development Studies Program, St. Francis Xavier University (22 students).
2015 Course instructor for DEVS 201 Introduction to Development: The Global South. Development Studies Program, St. Francis Xavier University (41 students).
Invited Graduate Lectures and Modules Delivered Abroad
2016 Food and Development: A Lecture Series. African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)-Rwanda. Kigali. December.
Undergraduate Course Development and Design
2018/19 Course development and design position for IDEV 3500(02) Yukon Field School on Food Security in Northern Canada. Guelph Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), University of Guelph (November-April).
Publications with Undergraduate Researchers
Sophia Hou and Lauren Sneyd. 2020. “The Right to Food in Canada’s North: Food Security and Sustainability in the Yukon Territory.” Studies by Undergraduate Researchers at Guelph 12(1). https://doi.org/10.21083/surg.v12i1.5438
Undergraduate and Graduate Advising
2018 Special Graduate Faculty in support of the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD), advisory committee member for Capacity Development & Extension (CDE) + IDS Master’s student Thuraya Elnaiem.
2018 Co-supervisor for CDE 6410 Readings in Capacity Building and Extension. Capacity Development and Extension, SEDRD, University of Guelph.
2016 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Graduate Fellows project “Hungry Cities: Governing Urban Food Deserts in the Global South,” Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON (3 MA students, 1 PhD student).
2016 Second reader for Development Studies Honours Project. Maggie Edwards ‘Shifting Towards Food Sovereignty: A Case Study of Power Imbalances and the Northern Farm Training Institute’. Development Studies Program and Anthropology Department, St. Francis Xavier University.
2016 Second reader for Development Studies Honours Project. Max Mitchell ‘We Thank God for the Radio: Participatory Community Radio in Ghanaian Social Change Activism’. Development Studies Program, St. Francis Xavier University.
Consultancy Reports and Teaching Manuals
2016 Updated Instructor’s Manual for textbook. Paul Haslam, Jessica Schafer and Pierre Beaudet Eds. 2017. Introduction to International Development Third Edition. Oxford University Press.
2015 African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)-Senegal. Assessment of the
development impacts of AIMS-Senegal. June-August 2015
Teaching Development Awards
2019 Grace Porterfield Teaching and Learning Excellence Fund $2,5000
Student Writing Support
2017 Graduate Writing Specialist. Writing Centre, University of Guelph Library.
2014 Graduate Student Writing Advisor (GSWA). Writing Centre, University
of Guelph Library. Worked one on one with students across the university to offer writing support and assistance on assignments.
Dr. Lauren Q. Sneyd 