Onowa McIvor
Dr. Onowa McIvor is nehiyaw from Norway House and Cross Lake Cree Nations in Northern Manitoba and has been a visitor on Coast and Straits Salish territories for nearly 20 years. Onowa completed her Ph.D at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Language and Literacy Education focused on adult Indigenous language learning. […]
Stephanie Jull
Dr. Stephanie Jull completed her PhD at UBC in 2012. Her dissertation research focussed on teaching community swimming instructors to support children with autism to learn to swim. As a result of her research, adapted lessons continue at the pool where the research occurred and ongoing training has taken place to ensure that new instructors […]
Rose Vukovic
Current Position: Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota My dissertation research focused on the development of mathematical learning disabilities in children from first through fourth grade. My UBC Graduate Fellowship freed me to focus on building a solid research foundation in my master’s program, which set me up to receive […]
Tracy Vaillancourt
Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt is a Canada Research Chair in Children’s Mental Health and Violence Prevention at uOttawa where she is cross-appointed as a full professor in Counselling Psychology and in the School of Psychology. She is an elected member of The College of the Royal Society of Canada and the recipient of the 2016 uOttawa […]
Richard Stock
What was the focus of your doctoral research? My doctoral research investigated the 12 month clinical outcomes of preschool children with Autism Spectrum Disorder receiving treatment based on two different models of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). One group, in Vancouver, received Verbal Behavior ABA in a group pre-school setting. The second group, in Halifax, received […]
Vanessa LaPointe
Degree: Degree: Graduate of Psychology program, ECPS Bio: My passion has always been thinking about what children need to grow in the best possible way. As a doctoral student, my research focused on the impact of the neighbourhood environment on healthy child development. The funding I received allowed me to work alongside some of the […]