Faculty & staff

Office

The Department of Psychology general office is in Cornett Building (COR) A236. The office is open Monday–Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

nboardman@uvic.ca
250-721-8968

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psycadv@uvic.ca

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Psychology clinic

COR A163
janicebentley@uvic.ca
250-721-7538

More contact information

Faculty

Tarek Amer

Assistant professor Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A211 tarekamer@uvic.ca 250-721-3791

Area(s) of expertise:

Memory, Aging, Attention, Cognitive control
Megan Ames

Associate professor Psychology

Office: COR A192 mames@uvic.ca 250-721-8771

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical psychology
Daniel Bub

Professor Psychology

Office: COR A185 dbub@uvic.ca 250-721-7527

Area(s) of expertise:

Cognition and brain sciences
Louise Chim

Associate teaching professor & Associate Chair Academic Psychology

Office: COR A265 chim@uvic.ca 250-472-4490

Area(s) of expertise:

Teaching and learning, cultural psychology
Catherine Costigan

Professor & Department Chair Psychology

Office: COR A170 costigan@uvic.ca 250-721-7529

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical psychology
Mauricio Garcia-Barrera

Professor & Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A274 mgarcia@uvic.ca 250-472-5067

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical neuropsychology, Executive functioning, Brain injury, Opioid-induced hypoxic brain injury
Jodie Gawryluk

Associate professor Psychology

Office: COR A257 gawryluk@uvic.ca 250-721-7549

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical psychology
Frederick Grouzet

Associate professor & Graduate adviser Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A253 fgrouzet@uvic.ca 250-721-7537

Area(s) of expertise:

social psychology, motivation, self-regulation, messaging, identity, friendship, well-being, resilience, post-traumatic growth, youth, community-engaged research, environmental psychology, ecological well-being
Allyson Hadwin

Professor Psychology

Office: COR A205 hadwin@uvic.ca 250-514-6384

Area(s) of expertise:

Self-regulated learning, metacognitive and cognitive strategies, student success, motivation, collaborative learning, student engagement, transitions to post-secondary, instructional psychology
Emily Haigh

Associate professor and Chief Mungo Martin Research Chair in Indigenous Mental Health Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A241 emilyhaigh@uvic.ca 250-472-4869

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical psychology
Kelci Harris

Assistant professor Psychology

Office: COR A275 kelciharris@uvic.ca 250-853-3914

Area(s) of expertise:

Social psychology
Maria Iankilevitch

Associate teaching professor Psychology

Office: COR A250 mariaiankilevitch@uvic.ca 250-472-5136

Area(s) of expertise:

Social psychology
Todd Kettner

Assistant teaching professor Psychology

Office: COR A207 tkettner@uvic.ca 250-472-4689

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical psychology
Adam Krawitz

Associate teaching professor Psychology

Office: COR A251 akrawitz@uvic.ca 250-721-7551

Area(s) of expertise:

Cognition and brain sciences
D. Stephen Lindsay

Professor Psychology

Office: COR A187 slindsay@uvic.ca 250-721-8593

Area(s) of expertise:

Memory and cognition, False memories, Eyewitness suggestibility, Eyewitness suspect identification accuracy and confidence, Subjective phenomenology of memory, Response bias in recognition memory
Nigel Mantou Lou

Associate professor Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A240 nigellou@uvic.ca 250-721-7553

Area(s) of expertise:

Social psychology, educational psychology, motivation, language learning, intercultural communication, migration, acculturation, belonging, beliefs, identity, intergroup relations
Stuart MacDonald

Professor & Mohr Chair Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A271 / A273 smacd@uvic.ca 250-472-5297

Area(s) of expertise:

Lifespan health and development
Sarah Macoun

Status: on sabbatical

Associate professor Psychology

Office: COR A196 sjmacoun@uvic.ca 250-721-7534

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical psychology
Alyssa Maryn

Assistant professor Psychology

Office: COR A260 alyssamaryn@uvic.ca

Area(s) of expertise:

Social psychology, Community-engaged research, Sexual consent, Gender-based violence prevention, Incels
David A. Medler

Associate teaching professor & Associate Dean Academic Advising for the Faculties of Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences Psychology

Office: COR A270 dmedler@uvic.ca 250-721-6108

Area(s) of expertise:

Cognition and brain sciences
Ulrich Mueller

Professor Psychology

Office: COR A255 umueller@uvic.ca 250-721-7548

Area(s) of expertise:

Lifespan health and development
Jhotisha Mugon

Associate teaching professor Psychology

Office: COR A235 jmugon@uvic.ca 250-472-5056

Area(s) of expertise:

Cognition and brain sciences, social psychology
Theone Paterson

Associate professor Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A266 tpaterson@uvic.ca 250-721-7547

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical neuropsychology, clinical psychology, health psychology, aging, neuropsychology, cognition, cognitive decline, dementia, health behaviours, mobile health, digital health, medication adherence, chronic illness, cognitive measure validation, psychosocial functioning X cognition, mental health X cognition, brain health,
Jill Robinson

Assistant teaching professor & Clinic director Psychology

jillrobinson@uvic.ca 250-853-3787

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical psychology, Substance use, Psychedelics, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology
Jessica Rourke

Associate teaching professor Psychology

Office: COR A277 jrourke@uvic.ca 250-721-8597

Area(s) of expertise:

Social psychology
Jonathan Rush

Assistant professor & Statistical consultant Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR B318 jrush@uvic.ca 250-472-4861

Area(s) of expertise:

Lifespan health and development
Colette M. Smart

Professor Psychology

Office: COR A259 csmart@uvic.ca 250-853-3997

Area(s) of expertise:

Complex trauma/complex PTSD, Trauma in the healthcare context (medical PTSD/trauma-informed practice in healthcare), Trauma recovery/therapy, Mindfulness, Somatic/body-based interventions, Neuropsychological interventions, Self-regulation, Patient-oriented research, Scholarship of teaching and learning.
Danu Anthony Stinson

Professor & Associate Chair Social Sciences Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A272 dstinson@uvic.ca 250-721-6281

Area(s) of expertise:

Social psychology
Paweena Sukhawathanakul

Associate professor Psychology

Office: COR A261 paweenas@uvic.ca 250-721-7523

Area(s) of expertise:

Lifespan health and development
Enda Tan

Assistant professor Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A237 endatan@uvic.ca

Area(s) of expertise:

Lifespan health and development, Cognition and brain sciences, Child development, Neuroimaging, Social cognition
Jim Tanaka

Professor & Honours advisor Psychology

Office: COR A189 jtanaka@uvic.ca 250-721-7541

Area(s) of expertise:

Face recognition, Perceptual expertise/training, Neuroeducation, EEG, AI Deepfake detection
Brianna Turner

Associate professor Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A276 briannat@uvic.ca 250-721-8711

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical psychology
Natasha Wawrykow

Assistant teaching professor Psychology

Office: COR A262 wawrykow@uvic.ca 250-853-3910

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical psychology
Chad Williams

Assistant teaching professor Psychology

Office: COR A183 chadwilliams@uvic.ca

Area(s) of expertise:

Reasoning, Cognitive Control, Reinforcement Learning, EEG, Wearable Biometrics, Computational Modelling, Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, Research Methods
Erica Woodin

Professor & Director of Clinical Training Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A239 ewoodin@uvic.ca 250-721-8590

Area(s) of expertise:

Clinical psychology
Jordana Wynn

Assistant professor Psychology

Accepting graduate students

Office: COR A209 jordwynn@uvic.ca 250-721-3789

Area(s) of expertise:

Cognition and brain sciences
Zexi Zhou

Assistant professor Psychology

zexizhou@uvic.ca

Area(s) of expertise:

Lifespan health and development