This year’s winner of the Joan Pavelich Dissertation Award is Mary McCaffery from the University of Toronto, Department of Leadership, Higher, and Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Mary’s dissertation is titled “Context matters: Exploring teaching methods and contextual factors influencing Ontario grade 12 teachers’ writing instruction.” Using Qualitative methods and interweaving complexity theory, the dissertation asks the following research questions: How do grade 12 English and history teachers teach writing? What composition theories and writing pedagogies influence their teaching? What aspects of teachers’ working contexts influenced their instructional decisions? The findings are organized by complexity theory and the overall thesis concludes that “In many respects, the establishment of education and ongoing professional development in writing pedagogies could result in shared space where secondary and post-secondary educators join a common, less hierarchical, space.” We believe this dissertation fills a gap and contributes to body of literature. We are pleased to present Mary McCaffery with the 2024 Joan Pavelich Dissertation Award.