Meet our faculty
Faculty
Director, Professor School of Child & Youth Care
Area of expertise
Family and gender-based violence, critical migration studies, and the lived experiences of second-generation South Asian women, including their resistance, identity formation, and encounters with racism in the diaspora.
Status: On leave
Professor School of Child & Youth Care
Participatory, action-oriented, arts-based research and practice; child-, youth- and community-led research and practice; intersectional, anti-colonial, land-based frameworks, Critical girlhood, youth and feminist studies; child welfare, Indigenous foster care, kinship care.
Assistant Professor School of Child & Youth Care
Accepting graduate students
Office: HSD B140 nickclax@uvic.ca
Status: On study leave
Assistant Teaching Professor School of Child & Youth Care
Teaching practice skills on-line, relational pedagogy, family counselling and work, decolonization and social justice in the practice space from settler social location, narrative and relational practice.
Office: HSD B132 scorring@uvic.ca
Associate Professor School of Child and Youth Care
Assistant Professor School of Child & Youth Care
Accepting graduate students
Exploring Muslim migration stories of belonging and identity; lived experiences of marginalized and minoritized people and communities; therapeutic recreational practices in community spaces; outdoor and solution-focused therapies; global perspectives of child, youth, family, and community research and practices; (auto)ethnographic methods; narrative inquiry; and community-arts-based methodologies.
Professor, Graduate Advisor School of Child & Youth Care
Accepting graduate students
Area of expertise
Violence against children and youth, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights, African girlhoods, the social context of education, children in marginalized urban spaces, young refugees, and African diasporic ethnographies.
Office: HSD B130 doriskakuru@uvic.ca
Teaching Professor School of Child & Youth Care
Land and Water based learning, teaching, and interconnectedness, Child Welfare, colonialism as a shared experience, environmental nurturing, preservation and activism, and sharing the land with non-human relatives.
Assistant Professor School of Child & Youth Care
Accepting graduate students
Indigenous legal and political authority and sovereignty; Indigenous-state governance and “rights” relating to families, communities, nations and environment; Indigenous youth empowerment and belonging; Indigenous liberation and inter-community relationships; and non-reformist reform relating to Indigenous peoples.
Assistant Professor School of Child & Youth Care
Accepting graduate students
Queer and trans youth, ethnography, sexual health education, popular culture, qualitative methodologies
Assistant Teaching Professor School of Child & Youth Care
music therapy and expressive therapies; research-creation; arts-based autoethnography; addictions, harm reduction, and recovery; mental health and well-being; Indigenous education and decolonial pedagogies; critical psychology/post structural counselling approaches; currere; discourse analysis; radical youthwork and youth wellness activities
Professor School of Child & Youth Care
Accepting graduate students
Youth suicide prevention, ethics, discourses of professionalism, constructionist methodologies, collaborative research, narrative practices, professional development, praxis, pedagogy
Teaching Professor School of Child & Youth Care
Intersectional diversity training, cultural identity development, racialized settler/Indigenous relations.
Adjunct faculty
Carol Amaratunga, PhD (Toronto), Adjunct associate professor
Areas of focus: health, women's and family issues
Jeffrey Ansloos, PhD (Fuller), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: suicide and suicide prevention, Indigenous health, social policy, community-based and systems-level change processes needed to advance social and health equity within Canada (with a particular focus on Indigenous rights), the role of emergent technologies at the intersection of community mobilization and social change
Anne Becker, PhD (Harvard), MD (Harvard), Adjunct associate professor
Areas of focus: cultural mediation of body image and eating disorders in Fiji, social transition and risk for eating disorders in Fiji, global mental health
Nancy Bell, PhD (Glasgow), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: human rights (with emphasis on child and youth rights), socio-legal research and human rights, social policy analysis, human rights monitoring and implementation, public services redress structures, non-traditional remedies and institutional responses to human rights violations, institutional ethnography
Jeremy Berland, MSW (UBC), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: working with families where neglect is a concern, outcome measurement in child welfare, workload measurement, organizational culture
Larry Brendtro, PhD (Michigan), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: strength-based assessment, treatment and education, building resilience in youth at risk, Indigenous youth in the dominant culture, building positive youth cultures, from coercive to restorative climates with troubled youth, the resilient brain
Terri-Lynn Brennan, EdD (Toronto), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: anti-colonialism, First Peoples/Indigenous approaches to community development, decolonizing pedagogy, intangible cultural heritage
Martin Brokenleg, EdD (S. Dakota), Adjunct associate professor
Areas of focus: resiliency in youth at risk, social issues affecting all youth, risk factors affecting Indigenous youth, Indigenous cultural traditions, indigenaity and cultural renaissance, dynamics of gender and sexual orientation
Roy Brown, PhD (London), Adjunct professor
Areas of focus: quality of life for people with disabilities and their families, evaluation of disability service programs, mental imagery amongst persons with disabilities, applying research to practice in the disabilities field, research design in applied research
Catherine A. Cameron, PhD (London), Adjunct professor
Areas of focus: cross-cultural studies of verbal deception (Canada/China/Japan/USA comparisons), young children's stress reactivity to a moral choice, ecological studies of development in cultural context (Canada, Thailand, Italy, UK, Peru, USA, Turkey), day in the life of resilient adolescents in eight locations around the globe, young children's telephone discourse with family members and emergent literacy, evaluation of school-based violence prevention (especially gender-sensitive interventions), resilience during transitions (early childhood years, early adolescence, and transition to university), teenagers' perceptions of intimate relationships
Grant Charles, PhD (UVic), Adjunct associate professor
Areas of focus: child welfare, young carers, community partnerships, field education and supervision
Margaret Dabor, PhD (Sierra Leone), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: curriculum development, training and policy in Africa, focus on early childhood development (ECD), girl-child education
Enid Elliot, PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: bridging theory and practice in early childhood, research that involves children under six and under three as researchers, the complexities of infant and toddler care, natural play spaces in early childhood programs, the narratives of early childhood educators, children's play, learning and engagement in the outdoors
Nigel Fisher, PhD (McMaster), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: international development, children affected by armed conflict, public policy, fragile states, poverty and insecurity, innovation and development, comparative development of Canada's Aboriginal communities and countries of the global South
Leslie T. Foster, PhD (Toronto), Adjunct professor
Areas of focus: child/youth health and welfare policy development and decision making, youth health and development indicators, mapping health and development indicators, issues related to knowledge transfer for improved decision making
Thom Garfat, PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: residential CYC practice, the therapeutic use of daily life events, engagement with families in CYC practice, relational CYC practice, self in CYC, outcomes that matter in working with young people and families, the application of the circle of change
Kiaras Gharabaghi, PhD (Dalhousie), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: life-space intervention, residential care and treatment, education experiences of children and youth in care, social pedagogy models of care, community-based interventions in an international context
Graham Giles, PhD (UBC), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: ethics and ethical inquiry in education, ontology, subjectivity and educational leadership, Indigenous epistemologies and approaches to education, Indigenous early childhood care and education, innovation in education (especially rural education), participatory and Indigenous research methodologies (including Indigenous storywork, dreamwork, participatory video documentation of Oral Tradition), psychoanalytic, poststructural, postcolonial and political theory in educational research
Rebecca Gokiert, PhD (Alberta), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: early childhood measurement and evaluation, validity of screening and assessment processes and tools, cross-cultural approaches to screening and assessment, mixed methodologies and community-based research and evaluation
Jaswant Guzder, PhD (McGill), Adjunct professor
Areas of focus: child mental health (high risk children, personality disorder risk), help seeking of families, cultural consultation model of care (minority communities at risk)
Laurie Harding, EdD (Simon Fraser), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: Indigenous cultural safety, white and settler privilege, anti-Indigenous racism education for students and practitioners working in child and youth care, child and family services, health, justice, mental health
John Hart, PhD (Southern California), Adjunct associate professor
Areas of focus: gender studies and men's issues, fathering, Indigenous traditional healing, meditation training for youth health and well-being
Lindsay Herriot, PhD (Alberta), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: multicultural education, queer and transgender youth, social justice, youth participation in educational reform, gender justice, feminist ethic of care
B. Denise Hodgins, PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: twenty-first century early childhood education and care pedagogies and research methods, materialdiscursive (re)constructions of gender and care, pedagogical narrations as a postfoundational methodology, children's material relations, histories of early childhood education and care
S. Mikael Jansson, PhD (London, ON), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: disadvantaged/vulnerable populations, licit and illicit substance use, research ethics, life transitions, health status and access to health services, mixed/comparative methods and survey research, community-academic collaboration, street-involved youth, persons working in the sex industry
Sylvia Kind, PhD (UBC), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: early childhood curriculum, children's artistic and expressive languages, studio research and the role of the atelier in early childhood, art practice as living inquiry
Philip C. Lancaster, PhD (Ottawa), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: child soldiers, children affected by armed conflict, sexual and gender-based violence, political philosophy, genocide
Kofi Marfo, PhD (Alberta), Adjunct professor
Areas of focus: early child development (including care and education), development science and social policy, socio-cultural contexts of human development, parent-child interaction, early intervention and program efficacy, critical analysis of applied research, cognition, learning and instruction, evaluation of educational interventions and innovations, developmental disabilities, international perspectives in developmental practice
Gord Miller, PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: child and youth health promotion, social welfare services and policy development, community youth development, school as a setting for health promotion, social determinants of health, adolescent health, collaborative action research, evaluation models and approaches
Peter Moss, MA (London), Adjunct associate professor
Areas of focus: early childhood services, relationship between early years services, schools and free-time services, workforce in services for children and young people, leave policies for parents, relationship between care and employment
Michelle Neuman, PhD (Columbia), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: international early childhood care and development, child and family policy in comparative perspective, education politics and policy, international education development, program evaluation
Janet Newbury, PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: intergenerational and intercultural engagement, community-based approaches to economic and social development, social justice, suicide prevention, disability, working across differences, participatory action research, qualitative research methods
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, BA, MEd (York), PhD (Toronto), Adjunct professor
Areas of focus: early childhood studies, common worlds childhoods and pedagogies, (post)colonial and ecological relations in early childhood, decolonizing strategies in early childhood pedagogies, children's relations and places and materials, multispecies relations, children's geographies
Rajendra Prasad Parajuli, PhD (Tokyo), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: children’s health, community health, environmental epidemiology, environmental health
Carmen Rodriguez, PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: Aboriginal childrearing practices, Aboriginal worldviews, bilingual education, identity and child development across cultures, multicultural approaches to teaching and learning
Shlomo Romi, PhD (OISE), Adjunct associate professor
Areas of focus: non-formal education, qualification of workers and residential schools, psychological assessment and custody cases, psychological characteristics of dropout and delinquent youth, youth in distress, training workers and therapeutic intervention
Blythe Shepard, PhD (UVic), Adjunct associate professor
Areas of focus: rural youth, families and children living with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, training and supervision of helpers, narrative methodology, child and family responses to natural disasters
Hans Skott-Myhre, PhD (Minnesota), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: globalization, radical youthwork, youth subcultures, philosophy of child and youth studies, body practices and creative force of childhood and youth, children/youth and popular culture, qualitative and ethnographic research methods, post-colonial/post-capitalist subjectivity
Victoria Smye, PhD (UBC), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: access to mental health and addictions care, inequities in access to mental health and addictions care (with a particular focus on Aboriginal peoples and women), long-term health effects for women leaving intimate partner violence, Aboriginal women's experiences of leaving intimate partner violence, suicide prevention
Carol Stuart, PhD (UVic), Adjunct associate professor
Areas of focus: professional practice standards, evidence-based practice, youth resilience and youth at risk, participatory research and qualitative approaches to research
Beth Blue Swadener, PhD (Wisconsin-Madison), Adjunct professor
Areas of focus: decolonization of research in cross-cultural contexts, cultural diversity and early childhood education, inclusion of children with disabilities, homelessness in international contexts/street children and youth, social policies affecting children and families
Affrica Taylor, PhD (New South Wales), Adjunct professor
Areas of focus: geographies of childhood, settler colonial place relations, common worlds childhoods and pedagogies, children’s multispecies relations, Indigenous childhoods and ontologies
Bruce Tobin, PhD (Washington), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: expressive therapies, child abuse and trauma, effects of television on child development, issues in intercultural counselling in First Nations communities
Kenneth Tupper, PhD (UBC), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: public health, health policy, critical discourse analysis, history and philosophy of science, drug education, psychedelic studies, ayahuasca studies
Steve Van Bockern, EdD (South Dakota), Adjunct professor
Areas of focus: youth placed at risk, strength-based classroom discipline, personal and professional development, best practice teaching and school leadership, emotional intelligence, resiliency
Emily Vargas-Baron, PhD (Stanford), Adjunct associate professor
Areas of focus: national-level policy planning for integrated early child development, children's needs and responsive programs in crisis and post-crisis nations, educational policy planning and systems development, systems for planning, coordinating and evaluating national-level integrated early child development systems, early child development training systems (curriculum and materials development), parent education systems
Angela Veale, PhD (Cork), Adjunct assistant professor
Areas of focus: transnational migration, social reintegration of child soldiers, refugee and asylum-seeking children and youth, fostering resilience in children and youth, war-affected children and youth
Emeritus faculty
James Anglin, PhD (Leicester), Emeritus professor
Areas of focus: Assessment of education and training needs in human services, parent education and parent support, international child and youth care, residential child and youth care, quality assurance in child and family services, child advocacy and youth in care
janglin@uvic.ca
Sibylle Artz, PhD (UVic), Emeritus professor
Areas of focus: Prevention of violence in peer-relationships, families, schools and communities and online, gender and violence, violence resilience
sartz@uvic.ca
Jessica Ball, PhD (Berkeley), Emeritus professor
Areas of focus: Early childhood care and development, youth migration in armed conflict, reproductive justice, multilingual education, mental health and addictions
jball@uvic.ca
Gordon Barnes, PhD (York), Emeritus professor
Areas of focus: Substance use, families, child and youth care
gbarnes@uvic.ca
Roy Ferguson, PhD (Alberta), Emeritus professor
Areas of focus: Children’s health care and child life practice/environmental design, children with disabilities/special needs and their families, distance education and educational collaboration
Marie Hoskins, PhD (UVic), Emeritus professor
Areas of focus: Adolescent girls' development/eating disorders, family counselling, identity issues
mhoskins@uvic.ca
Alan Pence, BA, MS (Portland St), PhD (Ore), Emeritus professor
Areas of focus: Early childhood education, care and development (ECD), international development and ECD, graduate level ECD leadership development, ECD in sub-Saharan Africa, ECD and Indigenous communities
apence@uvic.ca
Frances Ricks, PhD (York), Emeritus professor
Areas of focus: Ethics in child and youth care, consciousness, presencing and ethical practice
fricks@uvic.ca
Daniel Scott, PhD (UVic), Emeritus professor
Areas of focus: Children and adolescent spirituality, spiritual development and the lives of early adolescents, qualitative research: poetic inquiry, autoethnography and narrative
dgscott@uvic.ca
Sessonal instructors
Dana Beresh
dberesh@uvic.ca
Amanda Duke
amandaduke@uvic.ca
Ann Fisher
amfisher@uvic.ca
Angie Gray
abgray@uvic.ca
Lindsay Herriot
lindsayherriot@uvic.ca
Jodi Hoffman
jodih@uvic.ca
Michaela Louie
michaelalouie@uvic.ca
Alyx MacAdams
alyxm@uvic.ca
Amarens Matthiesen
amarensm@uvic.ca
Jonny Morris
jjmorris@uvic.ca
Terra Nielsen
tnielsen@uvic.ca
Chaa'winisaks Ogilvie
rogilvie@uvic.ca
Samantha Wylie
sawylie@uvic.ca
travisym@uvic.ca