Our PhD Students

Dennis Barrow

• Narrative inquiry
• Sexual minorities
• Gender Roles
• Anti-oppressive Education
• Critical literacy and social justice
• Autoethnography

Lynn Cummings

• Equity and inclusion in education
• Educational policy
• Critical pedagogy
• Integrated curriculum

Christopher Godfrey

• Educational Technology & Classroom Integration
• Professional Learning Experiences
• Participatory Action Research 
• Qualitative Studies 

Jamie Jackson

• Mental health of educators 
• Student well-being
• Canadian education
• Critical Theory 
• Gender Theory

Rebecca Kasperavicius

• Information Literacy
• Embedded Librarianship
• Phenomenology
• Critical Theory
• Perceptions of Academic Librarians

Jerome Kroetsch

• Holistic leadership
• Educational administration
• Managerial competency development
• Indigenous ways of knowing
• Actor-Network Theory

Christopher Peters

• Neurodiversity
• STEAM education
• Critical theory
• Long-term impacts of bullying
• Mixed methods

Man Tran

• Teacher and learner mental health & well-being
• Second language education
• Sustainability
• Teacher training
• Adult education

Vuong Tran

• Financial literacy
• Social justice
• Equity in education
• Equity for LGBTQ+

Tessa Troughton

• TBA

Leila Kharazmi

• Narrative inquiry
• Literature and education
• Second language education
• Illustration books and learning
• Technology in education

Michelle McMartin

• Dialogic pedagogy
• Critical literacy
• Building learning communities for equity and wellbeing
• Empowering and valuing the voices of children

Deborah Michaud

• Participatory action research
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
• Developmental assets
• Child welfare training

Christina Page

• Internationally-educated learners in post-secondary institutions
• Educational experiences of refugee-background youth and adults
• Culturally relevant pedagogies
• Adult education
• Critical pedagogies

 Tammy Lynn Ross

• Qualitative research
• Universal design
• Indigenous worldview

 Deborah Yawney

• Critical theory
• Narrative inquiry
• Food literacy
• Sustainability 

Kari Janz

• Student mental health
• Guided mindfulness meditation
• Holistic therapy
• Psychology
• Quantitative methodology

Derek Martin

• International education
• Student mobility
• Intercultural (communicative) competence
• Second language education
• Educational leadership
• Collaborative conflict resolution and peacebuilding

Jeff Thornborrow

• Children's mental health
• Attachment based education
• Social work leadership
• Social constructivism
• Humanist perspective
• Mixed methodology

Melanie Manitowabi

• Indigenous methodologies and its impact on profession learning
• Critical race theory
• Mentorship and its impact on student learning
• Anishaabemowin and land based learning and its impact on well-being

Jessica Poff

• Alternative schooling (unschooling, homeschooling, free schooling)
• Risk-aversion and resilience
• Critical theory

Betty Jo McCabe

• Workplace learning
• Leadership and change

Angie Bruce

• Indigenous leadership, governance and political structures
• Indigenous methodologies
• Relationship dynamics and empowerment

Dina Moati

• Equity and inclusion
• Adult learning
• Faculty vitality
• Learner-centred teaching
• Learners as partners
• Identities and intersectionalities
• Universal design for learning

Dr. Allison Tucker - Graduated February 2022

• TBA

Dr. Susan Picard - Graduated October 2020

• Special education with a focus on gifted education
• Perspectives on inclusion
• Theory of positive disintegration and emotional development
• Ecopedagogy and sustainability
• Qualitative inquiry: appreciative and narrative

Deva Balan Moorthy

• Truth and reconciliation
• Indigenous principles of learning in schools
• Social constructs of race and race relations
• Ethics of care in school systems
• Creating equitable learning spaces

Dr. Dany Dias - Graduated June 2021

• Critical pedagogy/critical theory
• Adolescent literacy
• Critical literacy and social justice
• Mental health issues in education
• Qualitative research methodology

Vivian Papaiz

• Palliative care nursing education
• Experiential learning, reflexive learning, adult learning
• Humanism and the ethic of care, ways of knowing
• Nursing competencies in hospice palliative care

Patricia Chabbert

• TBA

Dr. Michael Crant - Graduated June 2020

• Inclusive educational values and practices for non-traditional learners
• Identity and student development
• Universal design
• Global and holistic education

Nicole Gardner

• Values-based pedagogy
• Sustainable living
• Self-directed, life-long learning
• Holistic education
• Psychology

Richard Kennelly

• Education leadership
• Ethical decision-making
• Boys achievement
• Equity

Dave Kydd

• Social work education
• Field placement in social work education
• The intersection of class and field education
• Qualitative research methodology
• Principles of praxis in post-secondary education

Randi Ray

• First Nations policies
• First Nations governance
• Sustainable education funding for PSE for First Nations
• Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy

Dr. Daniel Brant - Graduated October 2021

• First Nations governance

Dr. Sandra Browne-Kealey - Graduated May 2019

• Mental health
• Inclusive education
• At-risk learners
• Educational leadership

Erin Horvath

• Change-orientated leadership
• Experiential and adventure-based teaching/learning
• Indigenous rights and worldviews
• Arts-based research and learning methodologies
• Resilience and skill development in traumatized populations

Dr. Sarah Hunter - Graduated February 2021

• Universal design for learning
• Mindfulness and the post-secondary learner
• Student development and post-secondary persistence

Dr. Michelle Brunette - Graduated May 2018

• International students; cross-cultural transitions
• Sport and physical activity as an educational tool
• Public private partnerships; sport and education marketing
• Leadership and cross-cultural competency skill building

Dr. Amanda Carvalho - Graduated May 2018

• Vocational education
• Critical narrative research
• Feminist epistemology

Dr. Sarah Driessens - Graduated October 2018

• Student engagement
• Higher education
• Critical pedagogy
• Holistic education
• Social inequality in higher education

Kathryn Ewers

• Nursing curriculum and evaluation models
• Nursing preceptor education

Dr. Laurie Peachey - Graduated October 2018

• The use of maternal child simulation in nursing education
• Self-efficacy and self-regulated learning
• Maternal confidence in childbirth experiences
• Preparation for entry-level nursing competencies

Dr. Adam Podolski - Graduated May 2018

• Student resiliency
• Critical theory
• Narrative inquiry
• Ethnography

Dr. Sunaina Sharma - Graduated August 2018

• Student engagement
• Technology use in the classroom
• Understanding the 21st century learner
• Experiential learning

Dr. Kerry Surman - Graduated June 2017

• Critical theory
• Educational policy analysis
• College curriculum and pedagogy
• Critical narrative
• Institutional ethnography

Dr. Melissa Corrente - Graduated June 2020

• Teacher attrition
• Childhood obesity
• Teacher education
• Narrative inquiry

Dr. Glenn Hanna - Graduated June 2016

• University/college partnerships
• Post-graduation student success
• "Practical reason"

Dr. Brooke Haugh - Graduated May 2018

• Homeschooling
• Unschooling
• Early literacy
• Narrative inquiry
• Willed curriculum

Dr. Betty Ann Martin - Graduated June 2017

• Narrative
• Holistic education
• Gender studies
• Cultural studies
• Birth and mothering
• Identity; depressive illness

Dr. Christine McIntosh - Graduated June 2017

• Healthcare education (systemic)
• Health literacy
• Patient-centred learning
• Healthcare provider education
• Patient self-management

Dr. Anna-Liisa Mottonen - Graduated May 2019

• Gender stereotyping
• Gender difference in education
• Reading and literacy
• Mental health issues in education

Dr. Olga Shugurova - Graduated June 2017

• Cultural pedagogy, eco-holism, complexity
• Indigenous education: local and global
• Sustainability and teacher education
• Indigenous methodologies, arts-based inquiry
• Leadership, cultural and natural heritage, UNESCO

Dr. Lisa Taylor - Graduated May 2019

• Math
• Financial literacy
• Non-experimental research

Dr. Taunya Wideman-Johnston - Graduated June 2016

• Chronic illness
• Holistic education
• Willed curriculum
• Resilience
• Special education
• Pre-service teacher education
• Psychology

Dr. Jeff Adams - Graduated May 2019

• Arts-based research
• Poetic inquiry
• Narrative inquiry

Dr. Jeremy Bisson - Graduated February 2020

• Ethical reasoning
• Authentic identity
• Narrative inquiry

Dr. Elizabeth Campbell - Graduated February 2019

• Living educational theory
• Action research
• Alternative ways of knowing, researching, and representing
• Holistic, democratic, student-directed learning
• Values-based pedagogy
• Contemplative pedagogy

Dr. Lorna Carol Corzine - Graduated June 2016

• Narrative
• Mental health, depression, anxiety
• Adolescents
• Workplace

Dr. Tara McGoey - Graduated October 2016

• Physical activity and cognitive development in children

Dr. Casey Phillips - Graduated December 2016

• Secondary traumatic stress
• Student engagement
• Student leadership
• Student success
• Self-authorship
• Higher education
• Mental health

Dr. Tiffany Roberts - Graduated June 2017

• Adolescent literacy
• Differentiated instruction
• Authentic assessment
• Safe schools
• Ethical leadership

Dr. Carmen Schlamb - Graduated June 2016

• Ecological identity
• Nature-deficit disorder
• Narrative inquiry

Dr. Erin Truswell - Graduated October 2020

• Student success
• Vulnerable school populations
• Technology in schools