on Educational Media and Technology in 2011, 2013 and 2016. She was also awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant for her research Assessment for Learning in Immersive Virtual Environments (ALIVE). In 2016, Code collaborated with Marc Bains and Dr. Sean Virani at the national meeting of the Canadian Heart Failure Society in Montreal, Canada, to create a patient-led advocacy organization for Canadians living with heart failure called The HeartLife Foundation of Canada. It became the first and only heart failure advocacy group in Canada to be run by patients in Canada. In June 2017, Code accepted a tenure-tracked Assistant professor of Media and Technology Studies Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). That same year, she suffered a heart attack and required a second heart transplant. Her first transplanted heart developed fast-acting cardiac allograft vasculopathy so she had an emergency re-transplant at St. Paul's Hospital. Upon returning to UBC, she published Assessment in immersive virtual environments: Cases for learning, of learning, and as learning and was appointed to the British Columbia Medical Services Commission Board. She also sits on the Heart & Stroke heart failure council. In 2019, Code and her Heartlife colleagues received the Dr. Harold N. Segall Award of Merit from the Canadian Cardiovascular Society "in recognition of a significant contribution to the promotion of cardiovascular health in Canadians." Research Code's research focus is on the area of translational research across education, health, medicine, and STEM; student agency, learning technology, and educational assessment. She specializes in mixed methods research and uses autoethnography to educate others about the lived experience of heart failure and heart transplant. In 2020, she published "Agency for learning: Intention, motivation, self-efficacy and self-regulation" in the journal Frontiers in Education and Pandemic designs for the future: Perspectives of technology education teachers during COVID-19 in a special issue of the journal Information and Learning Science. The article explores the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public school teachers. Personal life Code is married to Nick Zaparyniuk and participates in running events in her free time. Notes References External links Living people 1976 births Heart transplant recipients University of Alberta alumni Simon Fraser University alumni University of British Columbia faculty University of Victoria faculty