Human & Social Development
Child and Youth Care
| Name | Research interests | Contact info |
|---|---|---|
| Alison Gerlach Assistant Teaching Professor |
Inclusive and relational epistemologies; Family wellbeing and child health equity; Transdisciplinary equity-oriented pediatric healthcare and early child development and intervention; Critical disability scholarship – specifically with ‘vulnerable’ child populations; Child- and family-centred approaches to care; Trauma- and violence informed care and cultural safety; Organizational and systems change; Critically informed and praxis-oriented methodologies and methods; Integrated knowledge translation | 250-721-8550 alisongerlach@uvic.ca Website Website |
| Jennifer White Associate Professor |
Youth mental health, suicide prevention, community wellness, professional ethics | 250-721-7986 jhwhite@uvic.ca Website |
Health Information Science
| Name | Research interests | Contact info |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Borycki Professor |
Analysis of health care systems, information technologies in healthcare, patient safety | 250-472-5432 emb@uvic.ca Website |
| Karen Courtney Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor |
eHealth, community dwelling older adults, patient engagement, palliative care, health promotion and health information technology ethics | 250-721-8599 Court009@uvic.ca Website |
Indigenous Governance
| Name | Research interests | Contact info |
|---|---|---|
|
Devi Mucina |
Decolonizing Indigenous Masculinities, Indigenous fathering and other-fathering, Indigenous African philosophies, and using Ubuntu oralities and disability studies to understand the social memory of Indigenous children. | 250-721-8098 dpdee@uvic.ca Website |
Nursing
| Name | Research interests | Contact info |
|---|---|---|
| Nancy Clark Assistant Professor |
critical theory, intersectionality, social determinants of mental health; displacement; refugee; immigrant ; ethno cultural and racialized communities, structural vulnerability. | 604-341-3714 home 250-472-4703 office nancyclark@uvic.ca Website |
| Damien Contandriopoulos Professor |
Primary care, Nurse Practitioners, Health Policy, Knowledge Translation, Health Care Financing, Social Network Analysis. | |
| Anastasia A. Mallidou Assistant Professor |
Health services research, knowledge translation, leadership and health services management, research education, healthy habits, policy uptake | 250-472-5663 mallidou@uvic.ca Website |
| Bernie Pauly Professor |
Substance use, homelessness, health equity, social determinants of health, harm reduction, mixed methods, critical and participatory methodologies | 250-472-5915 bpauly@uvic.ca Website |
| Debra J. Sheets Associate Professor |
Gerontological nursing, technology in home care, caregiving, arts in health care, frailty | 250-853-3947 dsheets@uvic.ca Website |
| Laurene Sheilds Professor; Adjunct, Public Health & Social Policy |
People’s experiences of health and illness, social determinant factors of health, health and spirituality, narrative approaches to inquiry and practice | 250-721-8572 lsheilds@uvic.ca Website |
| Kelli Stajduhar Professor |
Palliative and end of life care, family care, health and aging, structurally vulnerable population, health equity, health services and health policy | 250-721-7487 kis@uvic.ca Website |
Public Administration
| Name | Research interests | Contact info |
|---|---|---|
| Astrid Brousselle Professor and Director |
program evaluation, ecological transition, health system analysis, healthcare | astrid@uvic.ca Website |
| Heather Castleden Professor |
Planetary Health; Indigenous Health; Social-Ecological Justice; Health Geography; Just Transitions; Climate Change; Circular Governance; Relational Ethics; Critical, Participatory, and Decolonizing Methodologies | castleden@uvic.ca Website |
Public Health and Social Policy
| Name | Research interests | Contact info |
|---|---|---|
|
Robert Beringer |
Gerontology; technology and aging; Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus (2SLGBTQ+) aging; global 2SLGBTQ+ health; health equity; community-based research; virtual community building and social connectivity; health promotion. | |
| Sarah Wright Cardinal Assistant Professor |
Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonizing praxis, Land-based Education, Wholistic dimensions of Indigenous wellness, Indigenous Child Welfare (historical and current), Intersectionality & identity development, Storied and community engaged research | 250-893-4890 swcardinal@uvic.ca Website |
| Nathan Lachowsky Associate Professor |
Community based research, health equity, marginalized populations, social and behavioural epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, sexual health and substance use, sexual orientation and gender identity | |
| Matthew Little Assistant Professor |
Food security; food sovereignty; food systems; global health; nutrition; epidemiology; health services; health equity; noncommunicable diseases | |
| Charlotte Loppie Professor |
Social determinants of Indigenous peoples' health and wellness; sexual and reproductive health across the lifespan; sexual diversity; sex trade work; HIV/AIDS; the construction of female sexuality | 250-472-5451 loppie@uvic.ca Website |
| Jeff Masuda Professor |
Environmental health equity, ecological sustainability, social and environmental justice, critical health promotion, healthy living environments, housing rights, participatory action research, public health history, health geography | 613-453-8978 jeffmasuda@uvic.ca Website |
| Renee Monchalin Assistant Professor |
Urban Indigenous health; reproductive justice; culturally safe health and social services; sexual health; living and aging well with HIV; Métis Peoples health and identity; decolonizing and Indigenous research methodologies | 250 472 4431 rmonchalin@uvic.ca Website |
| Timothy Naimi CISUR: Director PHSP: Professor |
Substance use epidemiology; substance use disparities; health effects of alcohol and cannabis; impacts of public policies and other prevention strategies on substance use and related harms; substance use and ‘second-hand’ health and social effects. | 250-721-6268 (office) 404-617-7748 (mobile) tnaimi@uvic.ca Website |
| Michael J. Prince Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy |
Politics of health care, federal-provincial relations, disability issues, social policy in Canada | 250-721- 8043 mprince@uvic.ca Website |
| Karen Urbanoski Associate Professor, SDH Graduate Advisor |
Substance use, addiction, treatment systems, health and social services | 250-853-3238 sdhadvisor@uvic.ca Website |
| Catherine A. Worthington Professor and Director |
HIV prevention and care, health services access, social work and health, social-structural drivers of health, community-based research, program evaluation |
Social Work
| Name | Research interests | Contact info |
|---|---|---|
| Patricia MacKenzie Associate Professor Graduate Studies |
Health care, aging, interdisciplinary practice and rural communities | 250-721-8036 patmack@uvic.ca Website |
| Bruce Wallace Associate Professor |
Community based research, substance use, homelessness, poverty and structural inequities, health equity, oral health equity and dentistry | 250-721-6275 barclay@uvic.ca Website |