Dr. Rachael Cayley

Dr. Rachael Cayley
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Rachael is an Associate Professor (teaching stream) in the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication, where she teaches both academic writing and speaking. Before joining the University of Toronto, she worked as an editor at Oxford University Press in Toronto. She has a PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and a BA in political science from the University of British Columbia.
Rachael has a blog, Explorations of Style, and tweets about academic writing. Her blog and activity on Twitter both reflect an ongoing interest in social media as a site for professional development for academic writers. Her current research concerns the way that thesis supervisors approach their role in assisting novice academic writers tackle major writing projects.