Tanya Perdikoulias

Tanya A. Perdikoulias is Associate Director, Operations in the Office of Research & Innovation at Humber Polytechnic in Toronto, Canada, where she has spent the past eight years supporting the people, processes and operations behind research. After years of working on the administrative side of research, Tanya unexpectedly found herself on the other side of the desk when a question she could not answer became her own research project. That experience brought together two parts of her professional life: research administration and more than a decade as a family portrait photographer. Her research explores how photographs communicate meaning, shape belonging and sometimes create conflict within families. It also inspired her five-book What’s the Hang-Up? series. Tanya brings curiosity, humour and a photographer’s instinct for changing the angle to conversations about research administration, asking what we might notice when we look at familiar systems through someone else’s lens.