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DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (AP&HD)
OISE/UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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February - March 2013

• On Tuesday, February 5th, AP&HD faculty member Charles E. Pascal delivers the 7th annual Trudeau Foundation From Ideas to Policy Lecture 'From Ideas to Policy: The Wonderful Dance of Research, Practice and Policy' in Toronto.
• AP&HD faculty member Jennifer Jennkins is awarded a CIHR (Canadian Institute of Health Research) grant along with AP&HD's Michal Perlman and Mira Boskovic to continue the 'Kids, Families and Places Study'.
• AP&HD faculty member Abby L. Goldstein receives the Harvey Brooker Award for Excellence in Clinical Training from the Ontario Psychological Association. The association issues the award each year to a psychologist who exemplifies the highest standards of excellence in the clinical training of psychology students.   

December - January 2013

• Jeanne Watson, Associate Dean, Programs and AP&HD faculty member is elected General Vice-President of the Society of Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Watson will serve on the Executive  Committee for four years with her term as President- Elect running form 2013 to 2014 and as President from 2014 to 2015.
• Jan Pelletier and Michel Ferrari promoted to the rank of Full Professor. 

October - November 2012

• Janette Pelletier quoted in the Globe and Mail's article on 'Why incorporating play in preschool helps kids learn.' Read the article here.

• Kang Lee's involvement with 'Babies: Born to be Good? CBCs 'The Nature of Things' takes a lively look at research on the moral trajectory of children from the first few months of life onward. Watch it here.
• Charles Pascal gave the first Annual Fraser Mustard Oration in Adelaide South Australia at the beginning of the month at the National Symposium on Early Child Development.

• Katreena Scott recently had an interview and two discussion papers posted on VAWnet  http://www.vawnet.org the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women.  The aim of this longstanding website is to use electronic communication technology to enhance efforts to prevent violence against women and intervene more effectively when it occurs.
• Niva Piran's newest book has just been published.  'Preventing Eating-Related and Weight-Related Disorders: Collaborative Research, Advocacy, and Policy Change' presents a collection of writings by expert researchers from Canada, the United States, and Australia who are committed to finding common cause and common ground in the prevention of eating disorders and obesity. (Gail L. McVey (Editor), Michael Levine (Editor), Niva Piran (Editor), H. Bruce Ferguson (Editor)Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2012).
• 10 Applied Psychology and Human Development students (SCCP, CP & DPE) are the recipients of CPA Awards of Excellence. They are Karen Lau, Michael Goldman, Robyn Legge, Krystal Martin, Sarah Horowitz, Kristen Frampton, Anthony Folino, Heather Prime, Mark Wade and Gizelle Anzures.

Congratulations to our colleagues
Professor Patricia Ganea & Professor Suzanne Stewart
for receiving an Insight SSHRC Grant!!

2011-2012 OISE Teaching Excellence Awards!

The OISE Teaching Awards acknowledge our commitment to high-quality teaching by recognizing faculty members who excel in innovation in teaching, providing an unparalleled student experience. Their excellence in teaching not only brings the curriculum to life for our students, but makes a significant impact on their learning and development.

Congratulations to our award winning teachers for 2011-2012:

Joan Moss, Associate Professor, Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, recipient of the award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching

Niva Piran, Professor, Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, recipient of the David E. Hunt Award for Excellence in Graduate Education

Steve Katz, Senior Lecturer, Human Development and Applied Psychology, recipient of the award for Excellence in Initial Teacher Education

Congratulations to our colleagues 

Becky Chen, Rhonda Martinussen & Judy Weiner,

who were successful in securing 

University of Toronto Excellence Awards

for one of their respective undergraduate students. 

Congratulations to the following students who received this year’s 

Lora Pallotta  Award

Emiko Koyama 

Adrian Pasquarella

Narges Hosseini-Sedehi 
 

Congratulations Keith Stanovich

2012 Recipient of the E. L.Thorndike Career Achievement Awards

E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award is given to living recipients, for career achievements (not for one or a few excellent pieces of research), for research in educational psychology (rather than psychology in general or education in general), and for original, scientific, empirically-based research, including meta-analysis research (rather than for textbooks or interpretive reviews). Additionally, the award should be for research in the best tradition of educational psychology. That is, the award should be for original, scientific, empirically-based research that contributes significantly to knowledge, theory, or practice in educational psychology.

http://www.apadiv15.org/awards/e-l-thorndike-career-achievement-awards

Congratulations Professor Rosemary Tannock 

on receiving the

“2011 Award of Merit”

from the
Ontario Psychological Association

Section of Psychology in Education,
 For advancing psychology in education
(specifically, relating to ADHD)
 &
also on the publication of your new book

'Behavioral Neuroscience of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
 and its Treatment'

CONGRATULATIONS!

Professor Kang Lee

Recipient of the University of Toronto

Distinguished Professor
in
Developmental Neuroscience & Education Award!

Professor Kang Lee in the Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology is a recipient of a University of Toronto Distinguished Professor award in Developmental Neuroscience and Education.
The prestigious University of Toronto Distinguished Professor Awards are limited to no more than 3% of the tenured faculty, and are designed to recognize faculty members with highly distinguished accomplishments, who display exceptional promise, and maintain an extraordinary level of activity in research and scholarly work in their respective fields. Kang is the first recipient of this award at OISE.

Over the last 15 years, Kang’s research has been focused on two areas of development:  moral cognition and action with a specific focus on lying from cross-cultural perspectives, and social perception with a specific focus on face processing in children and adults coming from different social-cultural backgrounds. Kang’s research has been funded by SSHRC NSERC, NIH, and the National Science Foundation of China, and he is the recipient of numerous awards. A former director of the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, a most prolific writer, his research and scholarly work has had direct impact on education policy and practice.

Professor Lee will continue to build capacity in developmental neuroscience and education at OISE and the University of Toronto.   Please join us in celebrating and congratulating  Kang on this well-deserved and most prestigious award.

Congratulations!!

To Michel Ferrari & Hazel McBride

who have received funding from
KNAER – the Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research 
to develop a website for educators on

 The Adolescent Brain:  Implications for Instruction.

Congratulations SSHRC CGS Doctoral

2010-2012 Awards Recipients!

 Daniella Biondic 
Sarah Gray
Victoria Lishak
Ashley Major
 Olivia Ng
Jessica Pereira
Nic Westrate

 Congratulations to the following HDAP students
who received OGS this year!

CONGRATULATIONS  MA CSE recipients
of the 2011

SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships!

Kelly Iggers
Tania Lim
Isabelle Moore
Katie Schmidt
Kadria Simons

Congratulations to our 3 HDAP Faculty Members 

Who Received SSHRC Grants this year!

Below is the list of the HDAP faculty who received SSHRC Standard Research Grants this year and also their project titles.

Esther Geva - Altering the Academic Achievements Trajectory of Recent Adolescent Immigrants: An After School Community-Based Intervention Targeting Language and Reading Strategic Knowledge

Jan Pelletier - Lasting Effects of Family Literacy Programs in Early Childhood

Katreena Scott - Influence of Fathers' Antisocial Behaviours, Co-Parenting and Emotional Availability on the Developmental Trajectories of Maltreated Children

23 OISE faculty members earned a total of $2.6 million in newly awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grants. This represents the best SSHRC Standard Research Grant results for OISE since 2006 and almost doubles the total dollar amount from last year.  "This is a wonderful accomplishment and a well-deserved achievement for each," said Dean Julia O'Sullivan. 
 
The newly awarded funding grants provide an average of $125,000 to each faculty member and support three-year programs of research that foster and develop vigorous collaborative and multidisciplinary activities. OISE researchers will carry out research in the areas of:  curriculum and academic achievement

* teacher education
* higher education
* social justice
* youth

These grants emphasize the development of new theoretical and methodological approaches to education research and provide wonderful training opportunities for OISE’s graduate students and future researchers.
 
This year’s results mark a success rate of 60%: up 14% from last year. This will drive OISE faculty to compete and succeed in future SSHRC, and other prestigious competitions. The program concludes this year as SSHRC gears up to shape new funding opportunities for the future. 
 

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Dr. Eric Jackman donates $5M to Uof T Institute of Child Study
 

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Article from The Toronto Star

November 12, 2011


JUST WHO'S LOOKING AFTER YOUR KIDS?

By Professor Michal Perlman