Dr. Victor Brar
Adjunct Professor
Educational Leadership, K-12 education, School governance, Social reproduction, Inequality in education
Dr. Rita Irwin, EdD
Professor
Arts education, arts teacher education, teacher education, arts based research, research creation, artists-in-residence, community engagement, diversity, international education, refugee education
Peter Gouzouasis, BMus, MMus, PhD (Music)
Professor
Arts-based research, autoethnography, creative analytical practices, creativity in teaching and learning, digital media in teaching and learning, early childhood education, jazz (performance and recorded music), music media, music learning, and pedagogy
Carla Hudson Kam, PhD
Professor & Canada Research Chair
Language development, second language acquisition, critical periods for learning, input and language learning, language learning and language change, children’s books
Dr. Mariana Brussoni, PhD
Professor
Child development, children’s outdoor play and risky play, parent and educator perspectives of risk, design of child-friendly neighbourhoods
Nancy Perry, PhD
Professor
Motivation and self-regulated learning in young children, social perspectives on teaching and learning, reading and writing, accommodating individual difference in general education classrooms, learning disabilities, special education
Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD
Public Health Researcher and Educator
public health, social equity, women’s health, global politics, social determinants of health, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, integrative health, holistic health practices, yoga, meditation, indigenous systems of health, health policy,
Darko Odic, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cognitive development, language acquisition, mathematics, perception of time and space, psychophysics, visual cognition, preschoolers, confidence, statistics
Susan Birch, PhD Yale
Associate Professor
Social perspective taking, social learning, social cognition, imitation, nonverbal behavior, confidence, communication, decision-making, impression formation, child development, the study of children and adults’ social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples’ mental states–their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person’s perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as ‘the curse of knowledge bias’ (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one’s current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)
Stephen Berg, PhD
Assistant Professor
Children’s physical activity and health, physical education, health education, curriculum, pedagogy
Lara Boyd, PT, PhD
Professor, CIHR Delegate & Health Research Advisor to the VP Research
Brain, neuroscience, rehabilitation, neuroplasticity, learning, motor learning, stroke, educational neuroplasticity, MRI, functional MRI, transcranial magnetic stimulation, healthy aging, exercise
Guofang Li, PhD
Professor
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair
Immigration, immigrant children’s language and literacy education, English as a second language (ESL) education, Chinese heritage language education, early childhood education, family literacy, technology-enhanced language teaching, pre- and inservice TESOL teacher education, cross-cultural studies
Dr. Lauren Emberson, PhD
Assistant Professor
developmental cognitive neuroscience, learning abilities, memory, perception (audition and vision),