Faculty
Jeffrey Ansloos
Dr. Ansloos studies social, cultural, economic, environmental and political dimensions of mental health and wellbeing for Indigenous children, youth and families.
Anne-Claude Bedard
Dr. Bedard studies the cognitive functioning of children with neurodevelopmental disorders, with a focus on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Chriss Bogert
Chriss Bogert, Vice Principal of JICS Lab School, is interested in children's well being and how to foster their engagement and motivation with learning.
Becky Chen
Dr. Chen studies bilingual children's language and literacy development, and transfer of skills between languages.
Jody Chong
Dr. Chong studies literacy development and how to best support students who experience reading and writing difficulties.
Yiola Cleovoulu
Dr. Cleovoulou studies elementary pedagogy and teacher education.
Julie Comay
Dr. Comay studies the development of imagination, play and curiosity, theory of mind, and early mathematical thinking.
Todd Cunningham
Dr. Cunningham studies how to best identify and support students with learning difficulties.
Lisa Dack
Dr. Dack studies how learning opportunities for children and adults can have a lasting impact.
Patricia Ganea
Dr. Ganea studies children's learning and early communication, and their ability to engage in hypothetical thinking.
J. Garrett-Walker
Dr. Garrett-Walker studies identity development, mental health, and well-being of BIPOC 2SLGBTQ+ emerging adults.
Chloe Hamza
Dr. Hamza studies the development of mental health and well-being, and how to support students' mental health in schools.
Zachary Hawes
Dr. Hawes studies children's mathematical thinking, with a focus on the roles of spatial reasoning in learning mathematics.
Eunice Jang
Dr. Jang’s research focuses on the potential of cognitively diagnostic assessment for the balanced development of mind.
Kaja Jasinska
Dr. Jasinska studies the development of neural systems that support language and literacy, focusing on bilingual/multilingual children and children in low-literacy communities around the world.
Jennifer Jenkins
Dr. Jenkins studies the influence of marital, sibling, and parent-child relationships on children’s early cognitive development.
Steven Katz
Dr. Katz studies how to create conditions for organizational and system change through impactful professional learning.
Kang Lee
Dr. Lee studies the development of moral cognition, focusing on deception, and social perception, focusing on face processing.
Rhonda Martinussen
Dr. Martinussen studies how individual differences in self-regulation, executive functions, attention, and motivational processes affect academic outcomes.
Richard Messina
Richard Messina is the principal of the JICS Lab school.
Charles Pascal
Dr. Pascal’s focus is on mobilizing evidence into policy development and practice improvement along the human development continuum.
Janette Pelletier
Dr. Pelletier has been conducting a longitudinal study on the benefits of Ontario’s full-day, play-based kindergarten program.
Michal Perlman
Dr. Perlman studies how the quality of interactions children experience in early childhood education care settings and at home impacts their development.
Angela Pyle
Dr. Pyle studies the impact of play on children’s learning and development.
Katreena Scott
Dr. Scott's research program is aimed at reducing violence in family relationships, with specific expertise in addressing violence perpetration in men and fathers.
Richard Volpe
Dr. Volpe studies applications of prevention science, knowledge mobilization, and the promotion of evidence-informed practices throughout the life span.
Mark Wade
Dr. Wade studies early life adversity and children's mental health and cognitive development, and the factors that promote resilience following adversity.
