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• Dr. Sue McGregor (click for more info)
  
• Peter McGregor (click for more info
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Dr. Sue L.T. McGregor is a Canadian home economist and Full Professor in the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. She is the Director of Graduate Education and has been a home economics and consumer studies educator for 35 years. Her current work focuses on pushing the boundaries of consumer education and research and home economics thinking and practice toward transdisciplinary inquiry, transformative approaches (leadership and education), a moral imperative, and the new sciences approach. Other areas of scholarship include: paradigms and ideologies, consumer-citizenship education, patriarchy and home economics, and home economics philosophy and leadership for the 21st century.

She has delivered 18 keynotes in 11 countries, including several states and most Canadian provinces. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, seven book chapters, three monographs, and 50 book reviews. In 2006, she published her leadership book Transformative Practice Http://www.kon.org/news.html Dr. McGregor is Adjunct Professor at Iowa State University where she also sits on the Advisory Board of the Family and Consumer Sciences Education PhD Leadership Academy. She sits on the Board of nine home economics, peace and consumer focused journals (was Acting Editor for 8 months for one journal and is currently Associate Editor for two). For the past decade, she has been a Research Fellow for Kappa Omicron Nu (home economics leadership honor 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 is the Principal Consultant for The McGregor Consulting Group (founded in 1991). MCG aims to effect transformative change through leadership education, research and development. Her consultancy work has been with Industry Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, 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 Helsinki University in Finland. She is included in the Canadian Who’s Who.

Dr. McGregor's areas of research and scholarly interest include:

• transdisciplinary inquiry and leadership
  
• transformative leadership and learning (and other paradigm shifts)
  
• home economics (family and consumer sciences) leadership, education, philosophy and practice
  
• consumer morality (reframing consumption)
  
• globalization, consumerism and the human condition
  
• postmodernism, consumerism and building a culture of peace
  
• global, citizenship and peace educations as inform living in consumer society
  
• consumerism as structural violence and a sense of entitlement
  
• consumer accountability and responsibilities
  
• consumer studies, theory, policy and education

In 1993, Peter (pictured far left) was awarded the Governor General of Canada 125 Merit Award for contribution to First Nation's Communities, Health Canada. An example cited upon receiving the award was recognition of his involvement with Aboriginal People and the Innu of Davis Inlet.