Susan Cran, MEd
Position: Instructor / Graduate Specialization Coordinator
Room: EDT 418
Phone: (403) 220-5669
Email: spcran@ucalgary.ca
Research Interests
This section under development; please check back for an updated list. Areas of interest include professional certification, rehabilitation management, career issues and disability.
Biography
Susan Cran is a full-time Instructor and Student Advisor for the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies program, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She holds an undergraduate degree in social work and her graduate work was completed in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Rehabilitation Studies. Susan is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Higher Education Administration. Her areas of interest are professional certification, rehabilitation management, career issues and disability .Susan coordinates the distributed learning graduate program in CRDS.
Prior to the University of Calgary, she worked in the private sector in vocational rehabilitation with adult onset disabilities and also with the not -for-profit sector assisting persons with developmental disabilities.
Susan was the National President of CARP (Canadian Association of Rehabilitation Professionals) from 2000 2002. She served as the Chair of the Standards and Credentials Committee, which encompasses the Registration Review Committee and the Continuing Education Committee. She was instrumental in the development of the Registered Rehabilitation Professional Guidelines. She also served as Chair of the Research and Development Committee and established the Canadian Network of Educators. As Chair of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Ethics, she helped develop the Canadian interdisciplinary Code of Ethics for Rehabilitation Professionals, and more recently the Guidelines for the Code of Ethics. Susan has achieved her RRP (Registered Rehabilitation Professional designation) and CCRC (Canadian Certified Rehabilitation Counselor designation).
Selected Publications
- To Be or Not to Be: The Issues of Professional Regulation (Adobe Acrobat Document)
- A Professional Code of Ethics: From Ideals to Practice (Adobe Acrobat Document)
- Cran, S.P. (2003). CARP National represented, Rehab Review, Winter 2003, Vol. XXIV, Number 8.
- Cran, S.P. (2002). National vision reflected in achievements, Rehab Review, Summer 2002, Vol. XXIII, Number 2.
- See CV for more
