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  • Dr. Raghad Ebied

  • Job Title :

    Assistant Professor

  • College :

    College of Sciences and Human Studies


  • Department :

    Humanities & Social Sciences


Dr. Raghad Ebied is an Assistant Professor in Core Humanities and Social Sciences at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU). Her interdisciplinary expertise spans compassionate education and ethical leadership, resilience and well-being, intercultural education, equity and inclusion, and holistic approaches to education.

Dr. Ebied’s research examines how educational and leadership practices can foster compassionate, resilient, ethical, and inclusive learning communities, with particular interests in newcomer and refugee education, strengths-based and culturally responsive approaches, and Muslim women’s leadership. Her current work also explores classical and contemporary approaches to holistic education, with particular attention to ethical and moral development and their contributions to human flourishing.

With more than a decade of experience across higher education, K–12 education, research, consulting, and professional development, Dr. Ebied brings an interdisciplinary and international perspective to her work. Her teaching philosophy is student-centered, relational, and reflective, emphasizing dialogue, critical inquiry, experiential learning, collaboration, and connections between theory and lived experience.

Dr. Ebied is also a Research Fellow at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Centre for Leading Research in Education. Her scholarly publications include contributions with University of Toronto Press and Harvard Education Press.

 

PhD in Education: Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2023

Resilience Expert Training, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2021

Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT), Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, 2015

Master of Science in Educational Leadership, with Merit, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, 2014

Senior Social Science Additional Basic Qualification, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2011

Teacher and Trainer of Adults Certificate, Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2008

Honours Bachelor of Education, Junior/Intermediate – English/Humanities; French as a Second Language Certificate, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2007

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology; Certificat de Français Pratique; Writing Certificate, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2006

 

Ebied, R. (2026). Reviving moral beauty (iḥsān) in faith education: Cultivating compassionate and resilient schools and communities through divine love, contemplation, holistic development, and inner renewal. Religious and Socio-Political Studies Journal, 3(1). [In press]

Ebied, R. (2026). Muslim women leaders between sacred ethics and social realities. Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque, Jadal Conference, Qatar. [In press]

Book Chapters

Ebied, R. (2026). Compassionate leadership for newcomer refugee students: A holistic and resilience-based approach. In E. R. Crawford, B. Mann, M. Bittel, & R. Rumpf (Eds.), Leading for refugees and newcomers: Cases for K–12 schools. Harvard Education Press.

Ebied, R. (2022). Supporting newcomer refugee students’ adaptation in schools: Challenges, practices and recommendations through the lens of a compassion-based framework. In A. Gélinas-Proulx & C. M. Shields (Eds.), Leading for equity and social justice: Systemic transformation in Canadian education. University of Toronto Press.

Doctoral Dissertation

Ebied, R. (2023). Settlement Workers in Schools’ (SWIS) support for K–12 refugee students: A resilience and compassion-based approach [Doctoral dissertation, Western University]. Scholarship@Western.

Other Scholarly Publications

Ebied, R. (2019). [Review of the book Compassion and education: Cultivating compassionate children, schools and communities, by A. Peterson]. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy.

 

Center for Leading Research in Education, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.

Ebied, R. (2025–2027). Muslim women leaders between sacred ethics and social realities. Al-Mujadilah Center, Qatar Foundation, Qatar.

Ebied, R. (2025–2026). Reviving Ihsan: Cultivating compassionate and resilient schools and communities. CICW, Shenandoah University, United States.

 

Independent Education and Training Consultant, Canada and International, 2009–Present

Education Consultant, Razi Education, 2014

Graduate Research Assistant, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2017–2021

Contract Teaching Faculty, Faculty of Education, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2020–2026

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Education Coordinator, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2022

Faculty Member and Research Fellow, Centre for Leading Research in Education, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2022–Present

Research Director, I-RSS, Canada, 2023–2024

Assistant Professor, Core Humanities and Social Sciences, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 2026–Present

 

Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (2026–Present)

UNIV 1213 – Leadership and Teamwork

Critical Thinking

Oral Communication

Wilfrid Laurier University (2020–2026)

The Educational Divide — 2020, 2021

Anti-Discriminatory Education — 2023, 2024

Compassionate Education: A Holistic Approach to Students’ Well-Being — 2026

 

Research Interests:
Compassionate Education and Ethical Leadership, Resilience and Well-Being, Holistic Education and Human Flourishing, Classical and Contemporary Approaches to Education, Intercultural and Global Education, Equity and Inclusive Education, Newcomer and Refugee Education, Strengths-Based and Culturally Responsive Education, Women and Leadership.

 

Ontario College of Teachers (OCT)

Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE)