1. PHILIP GIRVAN
3 Coady Avenue
Antigonish NS B2G 1T9
Tel: +1(902) 870-5821
Email: girvanphilip@gmail.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/philipgirvan
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015 – Present
Administrative Clerk – Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2015 – Present
Communications Officer, St. Francis Xavier University Association of University Teachers
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2013 – Present
Highland Region Hub Convenor – Community Sector Council of Nova Scotia
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2011 – 2017
Teaching Immigrants English (TIE) Curriculum Designer & Teacher - Halifax Regional School Board
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2012 – 2014
ACALATV Program Manager - Antigonish County Adult Learning Association
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2011 – Present
Producer – GO Productions
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2011 – 2014
Online Learning Coordinator & ACALATV Instructor - Antigonish County Adult Learning Association
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2011 & 2013
Learning English for Academic Purposes (LEAP) Instructor – Writing Centre
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2007 – 2010
Project Officer – National Collaborating Centres for Public Health Leads Secretariat
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2004 – 2007
Senior Teacher & Program Advisor - Sunny Side Up!
Saitama Prefecture, Japan

2. 2004
EFL University Instructor & Recruitment Officer, Westgate Corporation
Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
2002 – 2003
EFL Teacher, Topia English Zone
Changwon, South Korea
2002
EFL Teacher, Dalian Future English School
Dalian, China
2001
Foreign Expert, South Yangtze University/Lambton College
Wuxi, China
EDUCATION
July 2010
Master of Arts with Merit in Teaching English as Foreign/Second Language
University of Birmingham
Dissertation Title: “Health Literacy as Capital: Investigating the English as an Additional Language
Perspective”
May 1998
Bachelor of Arts Advanced Major in English
Dalhousie University
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming – “Tracing H1N1: Twitter as an emergent knowledge translation genre”. Moving Genre
Theory Online: The Emergence of Online Health Communication. L. Meloncon (Ed). Publisher TBD.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
March 2015 – Presentation – Building a Career in the non-profit sector in Nova Scotia.
Talk delivered on behalf of the Community Sector Council of Nova Scotia at the 4th Annual Youth
Activism Conference in Antigonish.
September 2014 – Reading – “Change yr”, part of Print Preview: Poets for Change an exhibit at the 5th
annual Antigonight: Art After Dark in Antigonish.
August 2014 – Workshop Presentation: The Twilight Zine, part of the Book Bound Workshop Series
organized by the All-Of-Us Society for Art Presentation and the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library in
Antigonish.
June 2013 – Panel Presentation: A Forum on Independent Publishing at East of There, an expanded
meeting of visual art professionals hosted by the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference
(ARCCC/CCCAA, aka ARCA) in Saint John, NB.
February 2011 – Paper - Culture, translation, and genre: The emergence of health literacy

3. interventions at Writing Research Across Borders II (4th International Conference on Writing
Research) in Fairfax, VA.
August 2010 – Poster – Health Literacy as a Personal Asset: The Circle of Health as a Collaborative
Tool at Innovation & Collaboration – the 2010 Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe
Communities in Charlottetown, PE.
March 2009 – Paper - Cultural Capital, Migrants, and Health Literacy presented at the 11th annual
Metropolis Conference in Calgary, AB.
ACCEPTED PRESENTATIONS
April 2012 – Paper – H1N1 and Twitter: Lessons for Medical Education at the 2012 Canadian
Conference on Medical Education in Banff, AB.
September 2011 – Paper - Twitter: a space of conflict and competition during the H1N1 pandemic at
the Medicine 2.0 World Congress in Stanford, CA.
May 2011 – Paper – Health Literacy in Medical Education: Promoting Empowerment as a Patient-
Centred Care Approach at the 2011 Canadian Conference on Medical Education in Toronto, ON.
June 2010 – Paper – The Role of English as an Additional Language Teachers within Emerging
Concepts of Health Literacy presented at the Canadian Public Health Association’s Centenary
Conference in Toronto, ON.
April 2010 – Paper – A Systems Approach to Strengthening Health Literacy: Recent Immigrants Living
in Rural Nova Scotia presented at Statistics Canada’s 2010 Socio-economic conference in Gatineau,
QC.
June 2009 – Poster - Knowledge Synthesis Translation and Exchange Disseminating Relevant Research
and Knowledge to Enable Evidence-Based Public Health Practice and Policy Development presented
on behalf of the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health at the 2009 CPHA Conference in
Winnipeg, MB.
April 2009 – Paper - La langue et la santé: La littératie en matière de santé et la santé des imigrants
allophones au Canada presented at the 2e Colloque étudiant du Département de français de Carleton
University, Ottawa.
October 2008 – Poster - Knowledge Synthesis Translation and Exchange Disseminating Relevant
Research and Knowledge to Enable Evidence-Based Public Health Practice and Policy Development
presented on behalf of the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health at the 15th Canadian
Conference on International Health in Ottawa, ON.
August 2008 – Poster - Knowledge Synthesis, Translation and Exchange (KSTE) & Health Literacy:
Bridging the Gap co-authored and co-presented with Dr. Anna MacLeod on behalf of the National
Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health at Reading Between the Lines – the 3rd Annual
Summer Institute for Healthy and Safe Communities, Charlottetown, PE.
August 2005 – Paper - Development of a Pre-School Curriculum presented to the University of
Birmingham's Hiroshima seminar, Hiroshima, Japan.

4. FUNDED PROJECTS
March 2013 – Training and Technical Assistance Grant to conduct a Feasibility Study. $8,900 awarded
to the Antigonish County Adult Learning Association by Enterprising Nova Scotia (enp-NS).
June 2012 – Adult Education Initiative Grant for “Digital Story Telling: Education for Action on
Housing”. $58,400 awarded to the Antigonish County Adult Learning Association by the Catherine
Donnelly Foundation (Collaborator).
May 2012 – Insight Grant for “Higher Education in a Digital Economy”. $297,525.00 awarded to
Dalhousie University by the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (Co-
Investigator).
BURSARIES & AWARDS
August 2014 – Atlantic Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities Travel Bursary
awarded by the Government of Nova Scotia.
February 2011 – Writing Research Across Borders II Travel Fellowship awarded by the Writing
Research Across Borders II Conference Planning Committee.
August 2010 – Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities Travel Bursary awarded
by the Government of Nova Scotia.
March 2009 – 11th annual Metropolis Conference Travel Bursary awarded by Citizenship and
Immigration Canada.
July 2005 – Short Story Contest Honourable Mention awarded by the editors of Collected Miscellany.
WORKSHOPS & TRAINING
February 2017 – Administrative Professionals Training offered by the Public Service School of Canada.
October 2012 – Association of Workplace Educators of Nova Scotia: Workplace Education Foundation
Skills Program Certification of Completion, Goffs, NS.
March 2012 – Atlantic Council for Community and Social Enterprise and enterprising non-profits
Orientation Workshop, Truro, NS.
September 2011 – Friesens Self-Publishing Workshop, Tatamagouche, NS.
June 2010 – Red River College: Web Site Communication Certificate of Completion, Winnipeg, MB.
May 2009 – St. Francis Xavier University: Project Management Application: Project Charter & Work
Breakdown System Workshop, Antigonish, NS.
April 2009 – Acadia Centre for Social & Business Entrepreneurship: Financial Analysis for Business
Development Professionals Program Certificate of Completion, Antigonish, NS.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Reviewer, Medicine 2.0 - 6th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Health, and Internet/Web 2.0 in

5. Medicine and Health, London.
Reviewer, Medicine 2.0 - 5th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Health, and Internet/Web 2.0 in
Medicine and Health, Boston, MA.
PUBLISHING
2013-2016 – Co-founded, co-curated and co-edited the All-Of-Us Society for Art Presentation (ASAP)
Zine. Eight issues curated and co-edited with TJ Ediger. Edited Issue 9 curated and designed by John
Matthews. Edited Issue 10 curated and designed by Katie Belcher.
All issues featured writings, photos, paintings, drawings, etches, & sketches from local, national, and
international writers and artists were published and distributed in various locations in Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick.
Zine covers and additional information available at http://www.asapartcentre.com/the-zine.html
JOURNALISM
April 2014 - “Kitchen Table Green Economics”. The Casket.
April 2014 - “CAO Discusses Wind Projects at Cafe”. The Casket.
April 2014 - “Going Green in the Community”. The Casket.
December 2013 – “Randy Delorey, Minister of Environment, on Fracking, Boat Harbour, rising sea
levels, and much more”. Halifax Media Co-op.
October 2013 – “Antigonish Candidates Forum on Poverty Reduction”. Halifax Media Co-op.
December 2012 - “ACALATV”. Literacy Nova Scotia News March 2012 – “Smoke ‘Em if You Got
‘Em”. Halifax Media Co-op.
May 2011 – “Antigonish: Central Nova Wrap-up”. CBC News.
May 2011 – “Antigonish: Poverty in Central Nova”. CBC News.
April 2011 – “Antigonish People – Hugh”. CBC News.
April 2011 – “Antigonish: People -- Marion & Amanda”. CBC News.
April 2011 – “Antigonish People – Clarice”. CBC News.
April 2011 – “Antigonish: Disability-related barriers to Central Nova campaign headquarters”. CBC
News.
April 2011 – “Antigonish: All Candidates Debate”. CBC News.
April 2011 – “Antigonish: People – Anonymous”. CBC News.
April 2011 – “Antigonish: Central Nova Tweeps”. CBC News.

6. April 2011 – “Antigonish: People--Wes Underwood”. CBC News.
April 2011 – “Antigonish: Early Reaction to the Debate”. CBC News.
April 2011 – “Antigonish: People--Sarah MacNeil”. CBC News.
April 2011 – “Antigonish: Challenges”. CBC News.
April 2011 – “Hello from Antigonish, NS”. CBC News.
FILMOGRAPHY
2013 – 2017. ACALATV Presents. Producer. ACALATV Presents is an hour-long program focused on
the arts, community news and profiles, and documentaries. Airs twice weekly, Tuesdays at 6pm and
Thursdays at 5pm, on Eastlink TV, Channel 5 in Antigonish.
2014. CACL. Producer, Camera-person, and Researcher. Promotional video on the Canadian
Association for Community Living directed by Bryan Melanson for the Antigonish Women's Resource
Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association with funding provided by The Rural Communities
Foundation of Nova Scotia. Available at https://youtu.be/drCfHJOWe9U last accessed March 15, 2015.
2013. Anne Camozzi: Art and Pain Management. Director and Editor. Documentary video produced
with Anne Camozzi for Arts Health Antigonish. Premiered April 19, 2013 at the Arts and Health
Symposium in Antigonish. Available at https://youtu.be/JKcilXFs4UU last accessed March 15, 2015.
2013. Affordable Antigonish. Producer and Researcher. Documentary film directed by Peter Murphy.
An ACALATV/Seabright Productions Production. Premiered February 13, 2013 at the People's Place
Library in Antigonish, NS. Available at http://youtu.be/MVF2DVl7d6g last accessed March 15, 2015.
2011. Antigonight: the Movie. Documentary film produced with Steve Scannell, the Antigonish
Regional Development Authority, and ACALATV. Premiered October 22, 2011 at the Antigonish
International Film Festival in Antigonish, NS. Available at http://youtu.be/iclGPvCMVEY last accessed
July 18, 2012.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
I am well-versed in several software programs including:
 The Microsoft, Corel and Open Office Suites
 Enterprise software including the Oracle Suite
 Live streaming platforms such as USTREAM
 Social networking platforms, e.g., Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter
 Website software, e.g., Joombla and Yola
 Blogging software, e.g., Tumblr and WordPress
 Education Management Systems such as Blackboard and WebCT
 Management Information Systems, e.g., Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and ACT!
 The Banner Information System including the MES AMIS Reporting Suite
I write clear, well-referenced documents in a variety of print and online genres including, news stories,
academic essays, reports, executive summaries, business letters, policy briefs, blogs, tweets, essays,

7. and PowerPoint presentations. Certain of these can be accessed via my Linkedin profile shared at top.
Other examples are available upon request.
I have excellent grammatical, editing and proofreading skills, and am fluent in both French and English
(reading, writing, and speaking).
I have professional experience building, administering and maintaining internet and intranet sites. My
specific duties have included coding, managing content, and managing online communities.
I have valid Standard First Aid and CPR training.
VOLUNTEERISM
 Antigonish Town and County Community Health Board (Chair)
 Antigonish Emergency Fuel Fund Board of Directors
 Sustainable Antigonish Leadership Team
 All of Us Society for Art Presentation Board of Directors
 Antigonish Poverty Reduction Coalition
 Antigonight: Art After Dark Planning Committee
 Antigonish County Adult Learning Association: English as an Additional Language Teacher
 Family Services Antigonish: Outreach and fundraising activities
 Antigonish Culture Alive (Arts and Culture Council) – Committee Ambassador
 Slow Food Japan – Event Assistant
REFERENCES
References are available upon request.