Scott Comber

Current Teaching

• COMM 3309  Management Skills
• MGMT 3320  Organizational Theory
• MGMT 5000  Management Without Borders
  
• BUSI 5003  Personal & Professional Effectiveness

Research Interests

Scott's research is in the areas of healthcare (physician leadership and system complexity), and the scholarship of teaching and learning (management education).

Selected Awards and Honours

• 2016-2021  CIHR Project Grant (co-principal investigator) "Promoting equity for indigenous and non-indigenous people in emergency rooms" ($1,662,789)
  
• 2016  Dalhousie's Educational Leadership Award for Collaborative Teaching
  
• 2015  Faculty of Management Teaching Excellence Award
  
• 2014-2016  CIHR Operating Grant (co-applicant) "Research ethics, sex work, and health: A qualitative study to improve health and advance ethical research engagement" ($300,000)
• 2013  Dalhousie University Academic Innovation grant (co-applicant) "Learning analytics: Enhancing quality teaching, learning and students' retention for online and blended courses" ($10,000)
  

Selected Publications

• What physician leaders need: Physicians self-assess themselves and others against the LEADS framework. Comber, S., Crawford, K., & Wilson, L. Leadership in Health Services, forthcoming  (2018)
  
• Developing Canadian physicians: The quest for leadership effectiveness Comber, S. Leadership in Health Services (special edition on medical leadership), 29(3), 282-299  (2016)
  
• Knowledge transfer for sustainable innovation: A model for academic-industry interaction to improve resource efficiency within SME manufacturers  Adams, M. & S. Comber  Journal of Innovation Management in Small and Medium Enterprise, Article ID 999612, 21 pp.  (2013)
  
• Managing cultural differences, leadership skills and strategies for working in a global world (8th ed)  Comber, S.  Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 32(5), 519  (2013)
  
• Healthy aging among LGBT seniors in Nova Scotia Murray, E., Numer, M., Merritt, B., Gahagan, J. & S. Comber  International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society 1(4), 179-92  (2011)