Claire Pitcher
Registered Nurse, PhD student
Child and youth mental health and substance use, public health, harm reduction
Constadina (Dina) Panagiotopoulos
Associate Professor
Diabetes, children, youth, antipsychotics, obesity, metabolism, prevention, healthy active living
Isabel Grant, LLB, LLM
Professor
Criminal law, violence against women, sexual assault, homicide
Richard Young, Ed.D
Professor
Parent-adolescent interaction (conversations), career development, particularly as a function of family influence
Sharalyn Orbaugh
Professor and Graduate Advisor
Associate, IGRSJ
Modern Japanese culture (literature, film, manga, animation, kamishibai), East Asian women’s issues, anti-racist pegagogy
Paul Kershaw, PhD
Associate Professor
Child care, parental leave, work-life balance, social policy, social care, social citizenship, responsibilities and rights, gender and politics, income assistance, child benefit package, social inclusion, neighbourhood effects on child development, Canadian federalism
Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc, PhD, RN, FSAHM, FCAHS, FAAN, FCAN
Professor and Director
SOGI education, LGBTQ2S+ health, adolescent health, nursing, public health nursing, trans and non-binary youth, homeless youth, stigma and discrimination, youth sexual health, youth mental health, adolescent substance use,
Jo-Anne Dillabough
Associate Professor
Sociology of education, youth culture
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
Tracy L. Friedel, PhD
Retired Associate Professor
Youth resistance, non-formal learning, land-based pedagogy, place-based learning, environmental education, outdoor education, oral histories, labour history, injury prevention
Marina Milner-Bolotin, PhD
Professor
Mathematics education, science education, STEM education, technology education, girls/women in science
Theresa Rogers, PhD
Professor
Literacy education, youth literacy practices, young adult literature, teacher education in literacy, English education, graduate supervision
Jennifer Shapka, PhD
Associate Professor
Adolescent development, social development, media, Internet, cyberbullying and victimization, online privacy behaviours, parenting
Eric M. Meyers
Assistant Professor
Youth online behavior, information seeking, web search, libraries, public libraries, school libraries, academic libraries, learning, virtual worlds, collaboration, social networks, new media, digital literacy, information literacy
Jolie Mayer-Smith
Professor
Environmental education, science education, post-secondary teaching and learning, teacher education and research, pedagogy, collaboration, educational technology
Michelle Stack, PhD
Associate Professor
educational policy, politics, university rankings, media education, media literacy, anti-racism, disability studies, social justice, educational equity, knowledge mobilization, knowledge translation, media representation of mental illness, comedy and social change
Michelle Stack is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies. Her research interests include educational policy and politics, university rankings, media education, anti-racism, disability studies, educational equity and knowledge translation. She is the author of Global University Ranking and the Mediatization of Higher Education, and she is editor of a second upcoming book on university rankings and journal impact factors. Michelle teaches workshops and courses across the university that are aimed at developing the capacity of graduate students to communicate their scholarship to journalists and others. She is preparing to dip her toe for a second time into the world of standup comedy in an attempt to expand conversations about mental illness, white fragility, disability and rankings. Michelle won the Killam Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2017, and she is a 2020-21 Peter Wall Scholar.
Martin Guhn, PhD
Assistant Professor
Wellbeing of children and youth, social determinants of developmental health, social and cultural community and neighborhood effects on child development, music and emotion
Shannon Humphrey, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Acne, cosmetic dermatology, dermatology, skincare, botulinum toxin, soft tissue augmentation, soft tissue fillers
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,
Louise Masse
Professor
Obesity prevention, childhood obesity, policy approaches to address childhood obesity, physical activity