Student affiliates
| Name | Program of Study | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Brenda Adams | Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, PhD | Childhood obesity prevention programs that use a blended model of online and in-person program delivery. |
| Damilola Afolabi | Economics, MA | Inclusive economic growth, health, and education. Interested in working with vulnerable populations in marginalized communities to improve the active participation of youths and children in driving inclusive economic growth. |
| Taiwo Afolabi | Theatre, PhD | My research focuses on working with displaced populations, especially youths in Victoria and Nigeria |
| Larissa Alabe Padua | Educational Psychology, MEd Special Education |
Literacy acquisition and development of children receiving instruction in their second language (L2); Educational supports that must be in place for children with special needs in care in B.C. |
| Ian Alexander | Curriculum and Instruction, MA Educational Studies | Support for and adaptation of international youth to education in Canada |
| Hanieh Almotahari | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, MEd | Emotional and moral development, child and youth psychology, identity development, inclusive education |
| Keenan Andrew | Child and Youth Care, MA | Re-weaving legacies of gender-based violence with Indigenous young men |
| Stephanie Arlt | Social Dimensions of Health, MSc | Street-involved youth, drug use, harm reduction, social justice, and homeless youth policy in Canada |
| Luis Barros | Curriculum and Instruction, PhD | Narrative Inquiry in the context of understanding how immigrants shape and (re)shape their lives, identities and stories to live by within and through multicultural worlds |
| Katy Bigsby | Educational Psychology and Leadership, Master's in Community Engagement and Adult Education | Non-formal learning, children and youth with challenging behaviour, social-emotional learning |
| Alexandra Blinova | Curriculum and Instruction, MA | Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on program development and delivery of non-formal in-person school programmes |
| Leila Boloori | Curriculum and Instruction, MEd | Curriculum in elementary schools, child psychology, children and youth teaching, critical thinking, international education, English language art education, language literacy teaching and children's literature |
| Sydney Boothroyd | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, MA | Effects of digital technology on youth mental health; relationship between screen consumption and mental, emotional, relational well-being of individuals and communities |
| Holly Brinkman | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, MEd Special Education/Inclusion |
Using applied drama to increase teacher self-efficacy and decrease student victimization in inclusive classrooms. |
| Alexis Brown | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, PhD | Critical Literacies with Indigenous Youth |
| Anna Chadwick | Child and Youth Care, MA | My primary topic focuses on sexualized violence and gender-based violence against girls and youth in Indigenous communities. My research is arts-based and encompasses frameworks decolonization by incorporating values of land and body sovereignty in Indigenous communities. The research is part of the project, Sisters Rising, supervised by Dr. Sandrina de Finney. |
| Emma Chalifour | Child and Youth Care, MA | Exploring the experiences of children and youth during the intensive care unit stay of an adult family member |
| Sandra Chamberlain-Snider | Theatre History, PhD | Theatre History, children and youth in theatre and performance training, Canadian studies |
| Fanie Collardeau | Psychology, PhD Clinical Psychology |
Intimate partner violence, romantic attachment and emotion-regulation, especially the regulation of shame |
| Elizabeth Comeau | Interdisciplinary Studies, MSc | Children's Human Rights, health, physical activity, self-determination |
| Parker Croshaw | Child and Youth Care, MA | Sexual Behaviour problems in youth, counselling, ethics, psychotherapy, forensic psychology |
| Bianca DeSilva |
Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, MSc Kinesiology |
Childhood obesity prevention, family-based programs, physical activity and literacy, sport, healthy eating, positive mental health, screen time. |
| Sharon Dias | Geography, PhD | Social housing, public housing policy, human rights, social justice, refugees, participation of children and adolescents in policy decisions, Brazil |
| Rebecca Duerksen | Anthropology, MA | Youth experiences of chronic illness, youth perceptions of illness disclosure, dominant cultural and social ideas about youthfulness and young bodies (and associated stigma), and possible barriers to support-seeking behaviours for youth with chronic illness |
| Stephanie Field | Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, PhD Kinesiology |
Motor development, physical activity, perceptions of competence, recreation |
| Antwi Frimpong | Law, LLM Public Interest Law |
Legal aid clinics to support community-based access to justice in developing countries |
| Patrick Gale | Curriculum and Instruction, MA Curriculum Studies and Leadership |
Student and teacher ecoliteracy development through nature and food immersion, with an Indigenous and place-based focus |
| Jennifer Gruno | Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education, MA | Benefits of nature-based physical activity; meeting the needs and interests of girls in physical and health education |
| Dorothea Harris | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, PhD | Centring Coast Salish ways of knowing and being within the academy, the impacts of post-secondary education on Coast Salish students |
| Carolyn Helps |
Psychology, MSc |
Nonsuicidal self-injury, suicidal thoughts and behaviours, community psychology |
| Kayla Hofman |
Political Science, MA |
Children's political agency; educational climate programs; generational injustice |
| Georgina Hope | Educational Psychology and Leadership, Master's in Leadership, Community Engagement | Fostering youth resiliency through storytelling |
| Katsistohkwí:io Jacco | Political Science, MA | Food sovereignty and its influence on positive family relationships |
| Adam Jenkins | Sociology, MA | Alternative justice models for youth who offend |
| Jocelyn Jones | Psychology, BSc | Trauma, autonomy, and developmental psychology, especially in women and LGBTQ+ communities |
| Meg Margaret Kapil | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, PhD | The interweave of mental health, stress regulation, and self-regulated learning |
| Luke Kernan | Anthropology, PhD | Early psychosis among young adults; volunteering in mental health communities; arts-based methodologies, comics, and storytelling |
| Zahra Khimji | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, MA Special Education |
The role of executive function in adult readers' comprehension of science expository text; effect of Self Regulated Strategy Development reading interventions. |
| Hyuna Ki | Curriculum and Instruction, PhD | I am interested in critical literacy in secondary-level schools, especially how to raise students' critical awareness. |
| Amie Kim | Psychology, MSc Lifespan Health and Development |
Self-regulation and language development in children. |
| Brooke Lagore | Psychology, MSc | Effects of social issues on physical health, life, meaning and suicidal ideation on adolescents and young girls |
| Julie Laliberté | Child and Youth Care, MA | Resistance, witnessing, arts-based community research |
| Ellery Lamm | Writing, MFA | A stage play centred around the mental health of teenage girls |
| Rashin Lamouchi | Child and Youth Care, MA | Impacts of migration on forced migrant youth |
| Nicole Legg | Psychology, MSc Clinical |
Predictors and trajectories of risky behaviours (i.e. disordered eating, suicidal ideations, nonsuicidal self-injury) in adolescents |
| SiMin Li | Political Science, MA | Digital humanity, identity of ethnic Chinese and International relations in Asia Pacific |
| Jemma Llewellyn | Theatre, PhD Applied Theatre |
Digital media literacies and youth sexuality, arts-based research through youth theatre and curriculum pedagogies |
| Shelby Logan | Psychology, MA Social Psychology |
Nature and well-being, existential psychology, motivation, positive psychology |
| Alyx MacAdams | Social Work, MSW | Trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit children and youth; supportive parent/caregivers; social citizenship; self-determination |
| Ana MacLeod | Child and Youth Care, MA | An autoethnography of reclaiming my Indigeneity |
| Myles Maillet | Psychology, PhD | Self-regulation, motivation, goals, statistics, research design |
| Tanya Manning-Lewis | Curriculum and Instruction, PhD | The challenge inner-city youths in colonized societies face with language, identity and place in school |
| Renay Maurice | Sociology, MA | Analyzing child support enforcement programs in Canada to develop recommendations that will inform policy changes |
| Brendan Micetich | Psychology, Bachelor's | Community-based research with a focus on mental health and emotional support |
| Jason Miller | Sociology, PhD | Supporting youth leadership and inter-generational alliance building in Canada's climate justice movement |
| Amy Mills-Guest | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, PhD Leadership Studies |
The impact of servant leadership practices on positive resiliency in elementary school children |
| Shantelle Moreno | Child and Youth Care, MA | Arts-based community-engaged research with Indigenous and racialized girls, young women, and youth of all genders |
| Addison Mott | Child and Youth Care, MA | Environmental psychology, counselling room design, ecopsychology, child and adolescent mental health, wilderness therapy |
| Laleh Mousavi | Educational Administration & Leadership Studies, MA | Critical consciousness about social issues, transformation, LGBTQ issues, international students |
| Emily Nichol | Social Dimensions of Health, MA | Childhood trauma and addiction, violence/trauma-informed approach to care, substance use services for pregnant and parenting women, stigma reduction |
| Patricia Obee | Child and Youth Care, MA | Physical environments that afford risky play in early childhood educations settings and the impacts of risky play on physical activity and well-being or children ages 3-4 years old |
| Summer Okibe | Law, LL.M. | Indigenous Peoples rights to Aboriginal title and human rights of children and women |
| Drexler Ortiz | Psychology, MSc Clinical Lifespan |
Religiosity and religious identity of immigrant youth and families post-migration |
| Tiffany Patterson | Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, MSc Kinesiology |
Childhood and adolescent obesity prevention, physical activity and nutrition literacy |
| Christina Perkins | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, Master's in Special Education | Early intervention, inclusive education, autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, and supporting diverse student needs |
| Lauren Petersen | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, MA | Social Justice, anti-racism, anti-oppression, and Indigenous culture through the arts |
| Jen Poole | Education, PhD | Special education, teacher education |
| Julie Prud’homme | Psychology, PhD, Clinical Psychology | Mental health risk and resilience in LGBTQ+ youth and emerging adults |
| Cindy Quan | Psychology, PhD, Clinical Psychology | Research interests include using community-based research approaches to examine the intersection of family systems, culture, and mental health as well as mental health service delivery. |
|
Kisten Quistberg |
Psychology, PhD Clinical Psychology |
Young children’s development of social understanding and self-regulation skills |
|
Saman Rahimi |
Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, MA | Increasing creativity in youth students by the help of new teaching strategies |
|
Christina Robillard |
Psychology, MSc Clinical Psychology |
The impact of interpersonal relationships on risky behaviours (e.g., substance use, disordered eating, suicidal behaviours) in adolescents |
|
Brad Rudner |
Child and Youth Care, MA | Effects of excessive screen time on youth mental health and its mitigation through nature connection |
|
Monica Slobozianu |
Psychology, MA | Motivation in sport, exercise and health |
|
Pauline Song |
Psychology, MSc Clinical Psychology |
Childhood trauma and abuse, intrafamilial relations, cultural context and family relationships, intimate partner violence and effects on children, prevention and intervention for childhood trauma and abuse, policy implementation |
|
Tom Spence |
Psychology, MSc Social |
Mindfulness meditation, quiet ego, wellbeing, optimal functioning |
|
Meaghan Storey |
Curriculum and Instruction, PhD | Social and emotional learning in the classroom curriculum, particularly in language arts at middle/secondary levels |
| Joelle Taknint | Psychology, PhD | Cultural influences and psychological stressors such as discrimination's effects on identity development |
| Chelsea Thomas | Curriculum and Instruction, PhD Social, Cultural, and Foundational Studies |
Student wellbeing and school climate/composition, connection-based teacher education, trauma-informed teacher education, ACEs, sexuality education, child honouring, emotions and learning and human interdependency |
| Debra Torok | Psychology, PhD | How forced migrant youth in Malaysia and Thailand construct their identities and future aspirations |
| Christopher Tse | Social Work, MSW | How forced migration informs refugee youth sense of identity development and future aspirations |
| Elizabeth Tuinstra | Curriculum and Education, Master's in Music Education | Music education, non-Western music education, cultural identity, decolonization, curriculum change, culturally responsive music education |
| Róisín Unsworth | Sociology, PhD | Violence, substance use & pathways to resilience among street-involved young women |
| Hector Vazquez Cordoba | Education, PhD Curriculum and Instruction |
Music education/Indigenous perspectives through music education in elementary and secondary school curriculum |
| Paul Vincent | Social Work, Indigenous Specialization, MSW | Indigenous child welfare, children and youth, Indigenous feminist theories, and art-based methodologies. |
| Mattie Walker | Social Dimensions of Health, PhD | Trans, two-spirited, and non-binary health, trauma and violence support, and mental health practitioner education. |
| Jeremy Wintringer | Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, PhD | LGBTQ ally training programs offered by post-secondary institutions in the U.S. and Canada |
| Ryan Wong | Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology Specialization, PhD | Neurodevelopmental trajectories of higher-order cognitive functions, particularly executive functioning or self-regulation. |
| Chris Wright | Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, MSc Kinesiology |
Early years, elementary school, physical activity, physical literacy, confidence, movement, movement competence |
| Rongxin Zhang | Pacific and Asian Studies, MA | Community-based child welfare system in contemporary China. |