Amy Tucker (she/her) is a scholar, writer, researcher, and instructor based in Kamloops, British Columbia, on Secwépemc Territory. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of organizational sociology, educational studies, and the embodied experience of precarity — asking what institutions do to people, and what people do to survive them.

As a Doctor of Social Sciences candidate at Royal Roads University, her dissertation employs participatory research with international students and contract faculty to theorize employment precarity in higher education. This work introduces three original contributions: asymmetrical precarity, which examines how vulnerability is unevenly distributed across institutional actors; malperformative inclusion, which describes equity interventions that succeed operationally while failing the bodies they serve; and ghost data, which surfaces the knowledge produced by those rendered structurally invisible.

Her Master of Arts in Human Rights and Social Justice research from Thompson Rivers University develops a complementary framework: alonetude — contemplative solitude that becomes generative when four conditions converge: intentional choice, felt safety, present-moment awareness, and meaning integration. Her creative thesis, 30 Days by the Sea: A Research Inquiry into the Third Shore, documents a thirty-day solo retreat on the Sea of Cortez as both healing practice and scholarly inquiry into precarious academic labour, rest as a human right, and the politics of recovery.

Over 19 years at Thompson Rivers University, Amy has taught organizational behaviour, HRM, and labour relations, and designed courses that integrate theory with the lived realities of adult learners. Nearly a decade of union governance experience — including service as Chair of the Non-Regular Faculty Committee — has grounded her academic work in the institutional structures she studies.

Amy is also a monthly wellness columnist for the Kamloops Chronicle (“Welcoming Wellness”) and a nationally competitive masters athlete. She is currently co-writing The TRUE History of Open Learning in British Columbia with John Bryant and Sylvia Bell.

She holds a 4.0 GPA from Thompson Rivers University (MA) and a 3.94 GPA from Royal Roads University (DSocSci), and is the recipient of the Kamloops Elizabeth Fry Award (2023), the Royal Roads Student Experience Award, and two Academic Entrance Awards.