Denis Berthiaume

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Denis Berthiaume (1969 – 2 September 2022) was a Canadian academic and researcher who specialized in education psychology and higher education studies. He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and studied at Laval University and McGill University, earning degrees in 1993, 2001, 2007 and 2011. He worked as an educational adviser at McGill University (1999–2006) and the University of Lausanne (2006–2012). He taught education psychology and higher education studies at the Université de l’Ontario français. In 2012, he served on the jury for French Excellence Initiative projects run by the Agence nationale de la recherche. In March 2014, he became Vice-Rector of Quality at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, and later directed the university's Certificate of Higher Education in Teaching and Learning of Higher Education from 2018 to July 2020. From July 2020 to August 2021, he was vice-rector for studies and research at the Université de l’Ontario français, leaving for health reasons. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor and colorectal cancer in 2021 and died on 2 September 2022 by assisted suicide.