Teaching
Dr. Sikka has extensive experience teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, designing teaching modules and degree programmes, and supervising post-graduate research students.
She is currently a Lecturer in Media, Culture, Heritage (School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University).
Teaching
Lecturer in Media, Culture, Heritage
January 2017-present, Newcastle University
Qualitative Research Methods (PGR)
Feminist Media Studies (PG)
Race and Identity
Research Methodologies (UG & PG)
Representations: Identity, Culture and Society
Food and Gender
Politics, Power and Communication
Course leader: Representations: Feminism, Race and Intersectionality (popular and oversubscribed module)
First supervisor to three PGR students, all of whom will complete in the 2023-24 year and 2 of whom have external funding.
Second supervisor to a PGR student in the Public Health program in a cross-school collaborative project.
External examiner, York University
Sociology and Criminology degree program.
Lecturer, 2010-2017, Fraser International College, Simon Fraser University
Introduction to Communication
Communication and Social Change
Lecturer, Simon Fraser University
Technology and Gender (2013-2015)
Introduction to Communication Studies (2010-2012)
Introducing to Mass Communication (2012)
Social Dimensions of Advertising (2012)
Lecturer, Fraser International College, Simon Fraser University
Social Dimensions of Advertising (2010)
Introduction to Mass Communication (2010)
Lecturer, Simon Fraser University, Fraser International College, University of the Fraser Valley
Introduction to Mass Communication (2010)
Media and Audiences (2010)
Political Economy (2010)
Lecturer, Simon Fraser University and Fraser International College
International Communication (2009)
Introduction to Communication (2009)
TA, Simon Fraser University
Social Production of Popular Music (2009)
Media and Audiences (2009)
Introduction to Communication (2007, 2008)
Social Design (2007, 2008)
TA, York University
Introduction to Communication (2006)
Technology and Culture/New Media (2004-2007)
TA, Carleton University
Introduction to Mass Communication (2003-2004)
TA, Simon Fraser University
Introduction to Communication (2002)
Readings in Marshall McLuhan (2003)
Qualitative Methodologies (2003)
Administration
Lecturer in Media, Culture, Heritage
January 2017-present, Newcastle University
Member of the Organization and Planning Committee for forthcoming Digital Cultures degree program.
Seconded (.2) to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Studies for teaching. In this capacity, I am a Red Fellow involved in the planning and operations of the PGCert in Research and have created a novel ‘directed study’ set of modules to address the specificity of training.
Country Coordinator: Canada, January 2015-present
Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP): The GMMP works to pursue gender equality in news media. In March 2015 we completed a global day of monitoring in which a multiplicity of news media in over 100 countries were monitored in order to present a snapshot of how women are represented in mainstream news both quantitatively and qualitatively. I oversaw a team of students monitoring the media and prepared and wrote the country report for Canada.
Course Director, York University
Communication Theory; 3rd year (2006-2007)