Jeanette Burman

Biography

Jeanette Burman is a dedicated research and academic support administrator at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, where she has served since 2014. In her current role, she provides long-standing support to Distinguished Research Professor Dr. Barrie R. Nault, contributing to high-impact research projects, grant applications, and scholarly publications focused on the econometrics of Information Technology in organizational operations and business management. In this role she also supports the Informatics Research Centre (iRC), managing research translation in the iRC e-newsletter.

Jeanette recently worked concurrently as a Limited Term Research Administrator (2024–2025) with the Haskayne Dean's office Research team, where she supported and coordinated several strategic research initiatives as well as launched the HBE Research Insider newsletter, an internal research email newsletter celebrating research culture across the faculty. 

Prior to joining HSB, she was Administrative Assistant to the Head of the Department of Communication and Culture in the Faculty of Arts (2010-2014), assisting Dr. David B. Mitchell and Dr. Barbara Schneider, now both deceased. Outside the University of Calgary, Jeanette occasionally provides heritage and administrative consulting services within Calgary’s architecture and design community.

Her academic background includes a Master of Environmental Design, a BA in Art History, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Heritage Conservation—all from the University of Calgary, with undergraduate studies also completed at Mount Allison University. Jeanette’s graduate thesis consists of a phenomenological investigation of campus radio communities and places in Canada. And her research interests span digital infrastructure, sustainability, and cultural landscapes, with presentations and publications featured at national and international conferences. Her past collaborations include co-authored conference proceedings with Dr. Brian Robert Sinclair and Dr. Sasha Tsenkova. She also delivers guest lectures to students in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape during the "Music, Space and Place" block week seminar, taught by Dr. David Monteyne.

Jeanette is an active volunteer in both academic and community organizations. Her recent contributions include serving on conference committees for the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (2023) and the National Campus/Community Radio Association CJSW Planning Committee (2023). She was a member of the CJSW Campus Community Radio Programming Committee (2022) and was a CJSW Radio Programmer from 2008 to 2020 where she hosted and curated a live on-air weekly music and arts program. She began volunteering and making radio in Sackville, NB at campus-community station CHMA in 1998/99.

Earlier in her career, Jeanette founded Show Us Your Shorts – A Festival of Short Films (2009–2013) as a school project, serving as Lead Programmer, Operational Coordinator, and Executive Director for a submissions based festival focussed heavily on Canadian produced short-film content. She also held roles as Film Program Coordinator, Lead Film Programmer, and Film Committee Chair for Sled Island Music and Arts Festival (2009–2013), where she managed and led complex cultural events within Calgary’s film community.

Currently, Jeanette volunteers on the planning committee and as website coordinator for her local community garden.