Dr. Sue L. T. McGregor is a Canadian home economist and was a home economics and consumer studies educator for nearly 45 years. In 2014, she retired as Professor Emerita from the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada (1984-2014). She was a member of the home economics/human ecology department for 15 years (until it was closed down). She then assumed the role of Coordinator of the undergraduate, interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Studies program for eight years. Following that, she was Director of Graduate Education in the Faculty of Education for three years and was the inaugural, elected Doctoral Program Coordinator in Educational Studies and elected Chair of the Inter-University Doctoral Administration Committee (2010-2011, 20 months). During her career, she taught research literacy, home economics and consumer studies, peace studies, global education, citizenship education, curriculum leadership, and education for sustainability. Sue is the Marjorie M. Brown Distinguished Professor at Kappa Omicron Nu, the leadership honour society for home economics (2011). She is Docent in Home Economics at the University of Helsinki (2010) and was Adjunct Professor at the home economics doctoral program at Iowa State University for 10 years (also on the Board of Directors). In 2009, she was awarded the TOPACE International Award for distinguished consumer scholarship and educator, at the Consumer Citizenship Network (CCN) conference in Berlin. This award recognized her outstanding scholarship about transdisciplinarity and consumer citizenship education. In 2015, she was named the International Karpatkin Consumer Fellow by the American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI). In 2015, she presented on a panel on education for responsible living at UNESCO, and in 2011, she co-presented scholarship on education for sustainable consumption at the United Nations.
She recently (2013-2015) published papers/book chapters on transdisciplinary entrepreneurship and TD ethics, transdisciplinary professionalism, transdisciplinary knowledge creation, transdisciplinary pedagogy, transdisciplinarity in higher education, the Nicolescuian and Zurich approaches to transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary memes, transdisciplinarity and conceptual change, transdisciplinary leadership, transdisciplinarity and biomimicry, transdisciplinary consumption, and transdisciplinary consumer education. She guest edited an issue on transdisciplinarity in the World Futures journal (2014).
Her scholarship focuses on pushing the intellectual and philosophical boundaries of consumer education and research and home economics thinking and practice towards transdisciplinary inquiry, an integral vision, transformative approaches (leadership and education), complexity, and a moral imperative. She is especially interested in home economics philosophy and leadership for the 21st century through a transdisciplinary lens. See www.consultmcgregor.com
She is an Associate Member of Sustainability Frontiers (UK), and an Integral Leadership Council member. For nearly two decades, she has been a Research Fellow for Kappa Omicron Nu (home economics leadership honours society). In this capacity, she published two leadership monographs, Leadership for the Human Family: Reflective Human Action for a Culture of Peace (2001), and Positioning the Profession Beyond Patriarchy (2007) (with Dr. Donna Pendergast, Australia). She also published a KON monograph/working paper on The Wilberian Integral Approach.
Under her own consultancy group (McGregor Consulting Group), she published four monographs: Conceptual Clarity in Consumer Scholarship; Well-being, Wellness and Basic Human Needs in Home Economics; Locating the Human Condition Concept within Home Economics; and, Consumer Education as a Site of Political Resistance. She has delivered 31 keynotes/invited talks in 12 countries. She has over 130 peer-reviewed publications (articles and conference papers), four books, 13 book chapters, seven monographs and over 50 book reviews. In 2011, she co-authored a book with Dr. Russ Volckmann entitled Transversity (Integral Publishing). In 2010, she published Consumer Moral Leadership (Sense Publishers, The Netherlands). In 2006, she published her leadership book Transformative Practice (Kappa Omicron Nu). She is currently affiliated with 20 professional journals. In particular, she sits on the Editorial Board of nine home economics, peace and consumer-focused journals, one transdisciplinary journal, was Acting Editor for 8 months for one journal and is currently Associate Editor for four. She holds membership in 15professional associations.
She is the Principal Consultant for The McGregor Consulting Group (founded in 1991). MCG aims to effect transformative and transdisciplinary, integral change through leadership education, research and development. Her consultancy work has been with Industry Canada (the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy and the Office of Consumer Affairs), Health Canada, the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals, and the European Union's Socrates (Public Education Branch). In 2005-2006, she was part of a nine-member international team that conducted an onsite review of the research programs for education and home economics faculties at University of Helsinki. In 2009, she was an external reviewer for the Transformative Learning Center at OISE, University of Toronto. She is included in the Canadian Who's Who.
