Research Directory

Areas of Specialization:

Highly variable natural and human landscapes; rural livelihoods; Africa

Research Interests:

Small-scale fisheries; environmental indicators; non-state institutional actors

Current & Future Research:

Examination of the role of the Arctic Char fishery in Nunavut's economic development and food security

Exploitation of floodplain fisheries and regional distribution chains in Southern Africa (funded by NINA-NIKU)

Areas of Specialization:

​ - Music Education

- Choirs and Choral Music

- Conducting

- Community Music

Research Interests:

​ - Male gender issues in music and general education

- Educational psychology and sociology

- Curriculum and Educational Policy in The Arts

- Sustaining choral communities

- Technology in music education

Current & Future Research:

- Artistic Director, Near North Voices

Areas of Specialization:

History of Education, Comparative and International Education, International Relations and Diplomatic Studies, Technology in Education

Research Interests:

My central research passions are History of Education, Comparative and International Education and International Relations. As former FSL teacher, I am also interested in the politics and history of language education, languages, and French and German language studies.

I have always been fascinated by the importance of education both at the local and at the…

Areas of Specialization:

Disability and work; nurses with disabilities, critical disabilities studies; nursing education; nursing leadership; community and mental health nursing practice.

Research Interests:

Experiences of workers with disabilities, nurses with disabilities, disability and diversity postsecondary education; critical perspectives on disability; simulation in health sciences; generic qualitative research methodologies

Current & Future Research:

Coffey, S (PI)., Anyinam, C, (Co-PI), Smith,…

Areas of Specialization:

Marketing

Research Interests:

Consumer behaviour, sport mega-events (Olympic Games), country image, tourism destination marketing, immigrants housing and newcomers' integration, wine marketing, social marketing, organic product purchasing behaviour.

Current & Future Research:

Dr. Armenakyan is currently merging her interest in sport mega-events and children consumer socialization in a quest to investigate the impact of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) on Canadian youth's sport participation/…

Areas of Specialization:

Evolutionary Psychology, Sexual Conflict, Behavioral Ecology

Research Interests:

It is indisputable that natural and sexual selection have shaped many aspects of human biology and behavior. My research seeks to understand how evolutionary pressures may have influenced various aspects of human mating. These include issues surrounding hormonal functioning, physiological characteristics, attractiveness and mate-value, signaling and mate acquisition, mate-poaching, as well as conflict strategies employed both within and…

Research Interests:

Visual arts confidence issues among generalist teacher-candidates, visual inquiry methods for understanding social issues, interdisciplinary connections between art and other subjects, and environmental considerations in art studios. As an artist, her foci are photography and mixed media.

Areas of Specialization:

Health geography; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); environmental management

Research Interests:

Environment and health; GIS and health; population health; air pollution exposure and health; geography and health in East Africa (South Sudan). 

Current & Future Research:

Canadian Census Mortality and Cancer Follow-up study;

Mobility, air pollution exposure, and health outcomes;

Air pollution modeling;

Socioeconomic determinants of health

Areas of Specialization:

Business Administration

Research Interests:

Innovation management, decision making, innovation risk, SMEs, leadership, Food sector, Workplace Innovation, and the Organic food market

Areas of Specialization:

​Women and the Criminal Justice System

Research Interests:

Criminalized Women/Policing

Current & Future Research:

Corrections (various projects with G. Brown, C. Greco & K. McMillan)

Areas of Specialization:

​Sociology of aging, work and health

Research Interests:

​Aging workforce, ageism, workplace transitions, retirement and pensions, age and gender discrimination, gender and work history, work-family balance in academia

Current & Future Research:

Ageism at Work: Negotiating Age, Gender, and Identity in the Discriminating Workplace (book contract with University of Toronto Press).

The Parent Track: Timing, Balance, and Choice within Academia (edited book manuscript submitted with C. DeRoche…

Research Interests:

International Teaching Practicums, Indigenous Education, Community Service-Learning, Curriculum Development, Action Research, Educational Leadership

Current & Future Research:

• Exploring the effects of an international practicum at home and abroad (Funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - SSHRC)
• Supporting Aboriginal adult learners and their families in their transition from Northern communities into the Nipissing First Nation and North Bay area (Funded by Ontario Ministry…

Research Interests:

• Social-Political Philosophy
• Ethics
• Philosophy of the Social Science
• History of Philosophy
• Argumentation Theory

Areas of Specialization:

Research Interests:

​My primary area of scholarly interest is twofold: the early Greek philosophical tradition and the early Indian. Currently, I am engaged in writing a book-length manuscript dealing with Friedrich Nietzsche's first major work, the Birth of Tragedy . My concern in this project is Nietzsche's particular use of Greek and Indian sources in defence of his argument in the Birth of Tragedy . I might be overstating "the case of Nietzsche," but in many respects his Birth of Tragedy stands to modern culture with…

Areas of Specialization:

​Nineteenth-Century literature and culture; Chartist and working-class writing; Victorian Periodicals and prose; Arthurian legends; William Morris Studies; Tory Radicalism; Juvenilia

Research Interests:

His current research interest focuses on the matching of management practices to individual innovation challenges to increase chances of business success.

Current & Future Research:

Professor Brophey is doing research in the field of decision-making during innovation as they apply to new products, manufacturing methods and services within existing organizations.

Areas of Specialization:

Research Methods & Statistics; Program & Policy Evaluation; Corrections; Policing; Mental Health

Research Interests:

Mental Health in Corrections; Police Interactions with Persons with a Mental Disorder; Police Use of Force; Police Training; Program and Policy Evaluation

Current & Future Research:

Prevalence of Mental Disorder Among Federal Women Offenders; Population Aging and Real Estate Decision-Making; Suicide Risk Assessments Instruments in Corrections; Police Interactions with…

Research Interests:

Her research interests are in immigrant integration, management education, financial literacy, sustainable tourism, philanthropy, and political economy.

Working Papers:

Brown, N.R., Armenakyan, A. and A. Shahi. Cricket in the North: The Impact of Sports Participation and Sponsorship on Immigrant Social Inclusion and Fostering Welcoming Communities.

Brown, N.R. and A. Armenakyan. Welcome to the Neighbourhood: The Housing and Neighbouring Experiences of Recent Immigrants to North Bay and Timmins.

Brown, N.R.…

Areas of Specialization:

Economic development in Northern Ontario; geography in education curriculum

Research Interests:

​Economic development in Northern Ontario; geography in education curriculum

Areas of Specialization:

Community-based physical activity health promotion

Research Interests:

Physical activity, healthy eating, Indigenous health, adolescent & emerging adult health 

Current Funding:

• Opportunities for Moving More and Sitting Less: Exploring a Whole School Approach to Improve Children's 24-Hour Movement Patterns (Co-Principal Investigator) CIHR $504,900
• Cultural Continuity and Physical Health: Creating a Model of Resiliency Among Indigenous Post-Secondary Students and Their Families (…

Areas of Specialization:

• ​Group Dynamics in Youth Sport
• Youth Development Through Sport & Physical Activity

Research Interests:

• Group dynamics in sport, exercise and physical education settings
• Positive youth development in sportSocial identity in sport
• Physical activity adherence among adolescents
• School-based physical activity interventions
• Team building

Current & Future Research:

• Measuring Youth Experience in Sport (Co-Investigator)…

Areas of Specialization:

Ecological nursing, critical caring theory, online learning engagement, critical cultural education, interprofessional health education, program development and evaluation.

Research Interests:

• Exploring cultural adaptation and mitigation experiences of Registered Nurses in relation to climate and ecological crisis
• Relational nursing practice within technology-enabled learning
• Exploring best practices in PhD seminar coursework

Current & Future Research:

• An…

Research Interests:

​Symbolic interaction and the experience of learning and education; collective behavior specifically extremist groups, cults, and the progression of genocide

Areas of Specialization:

Literacy Teacher Education, Children’s Literature; Early and Emergent Literacies;

Multiple Ways of Knowing

Research Interests:

​Two research strands, teacher development (including my own) and classroom research guide my past and current research interests.

I am interested in questions that arise in my classroom at the Schulich School of Education as teacher candidates embark on this journey called teaching. I am also interested in what it means in both theoretical and practical terms, for my…

Areas of Specialization:

Gender analysis, human rights, comparative perspectives on health and social welfare, public policy analysis

Research Interests:

Equality, citizenship, women and social development, social and cultural determinants of health and social welfare, decolonization, policy-making in pursuit of rights and justice 

Current & Future Research:

Completing an article on a transformational perspective of social welfare and an article on transnational socialist feminist movements. Collaborating on a project to…

Research Interests:

Microaggressions, lateral violence and incivility, Anti-oppression education, critical race theory, immigrant teachers, qualitative research methodologies, international facilitation (and international teaching practicums)

Current & Future Research:

Christine is currently working on a third book regarding microaggressions. The first explored microaggressions across disciplines. The second book, just published (May 2021) examines global perspectives of microaggressions in K-12 schools. The current book will explore…

Research Interests:

History of Canadian Education, Curriculum Policy, Organizational Design, Educational Leadership, Teacher Education, Action Research

Research Projects:

• The Use of Action Research in Teacher Education and Graduate Programs with Dr. Glenda Black (Funded by an Institutional Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – SSHRC, 2019)
• Far from Normal:  A Comparative Historical Study of Teacher Education with Dr. Lynn Lemisko, University of Saskatchewan (Funded by a…

Research Interests:

He has particular interests in the philosophy of the subject and the impact of religion on political and social organization

Areas of Specialization:

Modern World history; International military history.

Research Interests:

War and Society; Conflict and Atrocity; Terrorism and Insurgency; World History.

Current & Future Research:

“A Taste of their own medicine”: The Canadian Army, Atrocity and Reprisal in Germany, 1945 and after.

“The Cruelest Month”: The 4th Canadian Armoured Division and the invasion of Germany, April 1945.

Areas of Specialization:

Special education

Educational psychology

Dyslexia

Metacognition

Pedagogy

Research Interests:

Self-efficacy

 Reading ability

Global education

Assistive technology

English language learning

Curriculum 

Current & Future Research:

Title of Research Project:Influence of Interational Practicum on Pre-service teachers' Sense of Self-efficacy

Principal Investigators: Dr. Julie K. Corkett, Tina Benevides and Dr. Blaine E. Hatt

…

Areas of Specialization:

​Environmental anthropology; social and cultural theory; science, technology, and society ; political economy; commodity chains; the social construction of risk; fisheries and aquaculture; protected areas; historical memory and critical heritage studies; death, dying, and mourning; Eastern North America, particularly Newfoundland and Labrador and Central and Eastern Ontario.

Areas of Specialization:

Forest ecology; community ecology; dendrochronology; ecological modeling; silviculture.

Research Interests:

Growth and yield modeling, predictive habitat modeling of understorey species, forest disturbance and stand dynamics; forest productivity and ecological land classification; prediction of wood quality attributes; community dynamics; Boreal and Great Lakes – St. Lawrence forests.

Current & Future Research:

• Capturing site effects in boreal forest growth and yield models at the ecosite-…

Research Interests:

Family, children/youth, and special education, children/youth with special needs and their mental health, family and health, historical development of special education, and special education policy.

Areas of Specialization:

Environmental anthropology, anthropology of development, qualitative research methodologies, ethnology of northern Canada

Research Interests:

Political ecology of environmental governance; participatory processes within environmental management and assessment; anthropology of development; qualitative research methodologies, northern Canada; water governance in Indigenous communities.

Current & Future Research:

“Dokis Working to Protect the Water.” Funded by an NSERC Canadian Water Network grant (…

Areas of Specialization:

Whiteness Studies, Sensation Fiction, Victorian Literature

Research Interests:

Trauma Theory, Wilkie Collins, Short Fiction, David Adams Richards

Current & Future Research:

Victorian Sensationalist Fiction and Whiteness Studies: This project received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). I am currently preparing article for publication: "Discounted Englishness: The Construction and Reification of Englishness in John Marchmont's Legacy, Uncle Silas,…

Areas of Specialization:

Modern European History (Germany); International legal history (prosecuting genocide/war crimes trials)

Research Interests:

the Holocaust, war crimes trials, Perpetrator history and testimony, comparative genocide

Current & Future Research:

“Murder on the Beach: a case study of a single Einsatzgruppen execution in Liepaja, Latvia in film, photographs, and testimony, 1941”

Areas of Specialization:

Barbara's nursing career began in the field of orthopedics and then expanded to include community health. She has an extensive background in curriculum development and teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate nursing levels.

Research Interests:

Over the past few years, Barbara has been involved in multiple projects some of which include Faculty Morale, Outpatient Breast Cancer Surgery, Nurse Educator Job Satisfaction and Mentorship in Nursing.

Areas of Specialization:

Literacy Teacher Education, Reflective Practice, Educational Leadership

Research Interests:

Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP), Developing a Pedagogy of Teacher Education, Reflection and Reflective Inquiry, Literacy Teacher Education, Educational Leadership

Areas of Specialization:

Social demography, modeling demographic behaviors, population analysis, quantitative research methods, multivariate social statistics

Research Interests:

Human fertility; family planning, reproductive health; modeling demographic behaviors; health inequality; integration of immigrants; survey design; advanced statistical modeling

Current & Future Research:

Studying the determinants and rationales behind the continuing use of withdrawal (coitus interruptus) as the primary method of contraception…

Areas of Specialization:

Curriculum Design Continuing Professional Education Professional Legal Nurse Consultant Certification

Research Interests:

Nursing Curriculum and Evaluation Models Case Based Learning Preceptor Education

Research Interests:

Literacy, Literacy coaching, Professional Development, Higher Education, Drama Education, Teacher Stress and Coping

Claire has over ten years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in the Faculties of Medicine and Social Work. She has taught qualitative and quantitative research methods, mental health and addictions, development of programs for children and families, foundations of childhood development health, development conflict and displacement, multicultural families and interpersonal communication skills.
Her scholarship has mainly focused on disabilities, women’s violence, policy, universal design and critical analyses. Claire’s doctoral…

Areas of Specialization:

​Canadian foreign relations and political history.

Research Interests:

Canadian foreign relations, la francophonie, Cold War history, and the international history of Canadian multinational corporations.

Current & Future Research:

I'm currently working on a SSHRC-supported study of the International Nickel Company of Canada Ltd (INCO) and its interests and activities in the Pacific territory of New Caledonia from the 1960s to the 1980s.  This study examines the expansion of Canadian/North…

Jen’s research for her Masters of Social Work thesis built on her experience in her undergraduate studies where she focused on Maternal Health and Public Health. Jen’s MSW research focused on mother’s experiences combining the unpaid physical labour of breastfeeding with paid employment outside the home.
In 2014 and 2015 Jen worked as the Community Development Coordinator for the Northern Ontario Postpartum Mood Disorders Project. Working for the Community Counselling Centre of Nipissing and in partnership with the Thunder Bay Counselling Centre and B’…

Areas of Specialization:

​Conceptual Development: (Moral) Panic and Social Problems

Research Interests:

• Sexual Deviance
• Governance and Social Control
• Socio-Criminological Theory
• Moral Relativism

Current & Future Research:

• Judicial perceptions of sexual abuse
• Policing of sexual behaviour in the Lesser Antilles
• Parole and factors associated with (un)successful community release

Areas of Specialization:

Cultural and historical geography, critical geopolitics, environmental history, political ecology, geographies of science

Research Interests:

Networks of empire, science, and nature; imperial geopolitics; environmental histories of the British Empire; colonial afterlives of imperial knowledge; politics of biodiversity heritage

Current & Future Research:

Zoogeography and empire; militarization of the North Atlantic; environmental histories of the “Near North”; geopolitics of the Gulf Stream

Dementia, Ageing, Social determinants of health, Mental health law

Research Interests:

1. The Monitoring Salamanders Conference
2. Nipissing University Salamander Site
3. The Massasauga Provincial Park
4. International Essay Contest
5. The Urban Wolf Project
6. The St. Lucia Project

Current & Future Research:

Over the past few years, my research interests have centred on: 1) conservation problems of loons, 2) monitoring of salamanders and other amphibians, and 3) biological and environmental factors affecting fur bearers.

Areas of Specialization:

Corporate geographyEconomic geography

Research Interests:

Geography of corporate boards of directors and their educational affiliations.Overall study of corporate headquarters location.Competitiveness of small and medium sized cities in a knowledge economy.Economic development in Northern Ontario.

Areas of Specialization:

​Sociology of Education; Social Demography; Family Sociology; Life Course; Transition to Adulthood; Quantitative Research

Research Interests:

​Postsecondary transitions; Skills and Training; Residential Mobility; Victimization; Social Diversity and Inclusion; Academic Ability and Achievement

Current & Future Research:

​Post-Secondary Education, Skills and the Workforce: Northern and Rural Challenges (Collaborator, SSHRC IG)

Areas of Specialization:

​Human Movement Behaviour AnalysisHuman Sensory-Movement SystemsMovement Control in Special Populations

Research Interests:

​Visual control of upper limb movementsMeasurement and quantification of individual differences in the preparation and execution of movementKinematic analyses of the movements of individuals from typically developing and special populationsTheoretical modelling of movement control and movement rehabilitation

Areas of Specialization:

Environmental physiology, cerebral blood flow, hyperthermia, hypoxia, neuromuscular function

Research Interests:

Integrated mechanisms of cerebral blood flow regulation, temperature regulation, exercise performance in extreme environments

Computational Physics is focused on highly interdisciplinary research in the areas of nanotechnology, nanophotonics, biophotonics and nanomedicine. Our research focuses on developing fundamental theoretical approaches and computational methods for solving problems and building software tools within these fields. 

Areas of Specialization:

​Biomechanics, artificial neural networks, wavelet transforms, bilateral asymmetry, energy expenditure and movement classification modelling.

Research Interests:

​Dr. Hay’s initial interest in bilateral asymmetry in humans led to research on how it might affect performance and efficiency. This line of questioning has led to several collaborative  publications and has been expanded to study other fundamental aspects of human balance and movement. The second area of Dr. Hay’s research has been an outgrowth of the…

Research Interests:

David’s research is broad and multidisciplinary, stemming from his expertise as a multivariate statistician. It includes:

• In innovation, using neural networks to model innovation manager decision making.
• In nursing, modelling the effects of compassion fatigue, stress, burnout, resilience, passion for work, personal energy/vitality, and wellbeing.
• In organizational behaviour, examining the impact of leadership on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behaviour, and…

Areas of Specialization:

​Police response to persons with mental disorders; Communication and de-escalation techniques used by police officers; 

Mental health screening performed by front-line emergency responders; 

Forensic mental health system in Ontario; 

Police response to vulnerable populations; 

Probation and parole.

Research Interests:

​Developing evidence-based police training for responding to persons with serious mental disorders;Mental health and cognitive status screening by front-line criminal…

Areas of Specialization:

​Social Demography, Population Analysis, Social Research

Research Interests:

• ​— Demography of Ethnic Groups,
• — Human Fertility, Reproductive Health, and Family Planning, Population Policy
• — Marriage, and Family Change,
• — Population Aging,
• — Demography of Muslim Countries

Current & Future Research:

Investigating the Impact of Life style on Childbearing Desires among Ethnic Groups in Iran, Studying Women’s Human Capital and Fertility Convergence in…

Areas of Specialization:

Catchment and hillslope hydrology, streamflow generation, stable isotope hydrology

Research Interests:

Streamflow generation, groundwater-surface water interactions, use of environmental tracers in hydrology, integration of modeling and data, interdisciplinary research.

Current & Future Research:

Use of stable water isotopes in the study of water cycling in Precambrian shield watersheds and lakes.Computer modeling of water quality and quantity for Shield watersheds.Watershed classification in…

Research Interests:

My research interests are interdisciplinary with five major emphases:

• Chemical Synthesis
• Green Chemistry
• Medicinal Chemistry
• Microbiology
• Enzymology

The synthetic aspect deals with developing new and efficient methodologies for the synthesis of novel heterocycles. Currently, we are focused on exploring the synthetic chemistry around several biologically relevant heterocycles such as indole, pyridine and pyrimidine and use this knowledge to synthesize useful compounds to…

Areas of Specialization:

​General and Geometric Topology

Research Interests:

​General and Geometric Topology (dimension theory, asymptotic topology, infinite-dimensional topology, continuous selections), Continuum Theory, Functional Analysis (algebraic properties of spaces of functions, ranks of C*-algebras)

Current & Future Research:

Extension dimension, C-spaces, transfinite dimension, compactifications of locally compact spaces, tilings and tiling spaces (NSERC funded)

Research Interests:

Dr. Kariuki's current interests include hydrometallurgy as well as a study of the effects of reduced sulphur species on water quality. The main goal of the hydrometallurgical research that we are performing is to develop more environmentally friendly and economical ways of mining minerals compared to the smelting processes that have traditionally been used.

An important part of the sulphur project is an investigation of the speciation of the reduced sulphur species in drinking water sources.

The above research is being…

Areas of Specialization:

Physical activity and cancer

Research Interests:

• Physical activity promotion in cancer survivors
• Quality of life and survival benefits of physical activity for cancer survivors
• Psychosocial determinants of physical activity

Current & Future Research

• A knowledge translation strategy for enhancing physical activity counselling among nurses (Principal Investigator)
• The effectiveness of a distance-based physical activity intervention for cancer survivors…

Areas of Specialization:

Sociological Theory; Social Psychology; Environmental Sociology; Sociology of Organizations & Occupations; Science & Technology Studies; Ethnographic Research

Research Interests:

My areas of research and student supervision include 1) the social psychological explorations of constraint and adaptation within groups, organizations, occupations and everyday life; and 2) social construction of expert knowledge, risk, and social-environmental problems.

Current & Future Research:

Science-…

Innovation and Technology Management, Change Management, Human Resource Management, Creativity, Risk Management and System dynamic.

Areas of Specialization:

​Biomechanics and Ergonomics

Research Interests:

​General: Occupational biomechanics, Ergonomics, Neuromuscular control, Work-related musculoskeletal disorders, Injury prevention

Specific: Wrist and hand biomechanics, Pathomechanics, Injury mechanisms, Sensorimotor function, Ergonomic assessment methods, Workplace interventions

Methods: Surface and fine wire electromyography, Motion capture, CyberGlove, Ultrasound imaging, Computer modelling, Cadaver tissue testing

Current & Future Research…

Areas of Specialization:

Environmental monitoring; environmental mapping; remote sensing; biogeography

Research Interests:

Mangrove forests; wetlands; radar remote sensing systems; optical remote sensing systems; hyperspectral remote sensing systems; Mexican Pacific; West Africa

Current & Future Research:

Mapping and monitoring mangrove forest health using optical and synthetic aperture radar earth observing satellites (NSERC funded)

Hyperspectral remote sensing of degraded mangrove forests

Applications of…

Areas of Specialization:

Colonial and Revolutionary United States

Research Interests:

Revolutionary America, Pennsylvania before 1800, the Second Amendment, Masculinity and the Militia

Current & Future Research:

Arms and the Men: Masculinity and the Militia in the Early Republic (proposed book manuscript/SSHRC grant) 

Assistant Editor, The John Dickinson Writings Project,http://dickinsonproject.rch.uky.edu/

Areas of Specialization:

Canadian Literature, Native Literature, Women’s Writing, the Canadian Short Story

Research Interests:

The Canadian Short Story and “voice,” Creative Writing

Current & Future Research:

Creative writing: fiction and poetry. Founding member of WWW (Women’s Writing Workshop), started Summer 2007

Research Interests:

• Sponsorship Marketing
• Brand Management
• Marketing to Women
• Sport Marketing
• Women’s Hockey Studies
• Case Studies

Current & Future Research:

My tenure in professional practice inspired my chosen field of research specialization, effectively integrating scholarships of application and discovery. My doctoral dissertation provides a strong platform upon which my research agenda continues to evolve. My study offers significant contributions in understanding…

Areas of Specialization:

Comparative politics, development, welfare regimes and religion in Southeast Asia, transnational religious movements, democracy, social policy, nationalism, identity politics, gender, ethnicity and governance

Research Interests:

Cultural politics, religious diversity in Southeast Asia, geopolitics of Buddhism, health, education, the elderly, families, violence, poverty alleviation, social inequalities, disaster relief, moral economy

Current & Future Research:

​Completing an article on socially-…

Areas of Specialization:

Second/additional language education, French as a second language education, multilingualism

Research Interests:

Additional language learning (allophone students studying French as a second language in particular), inclusive classrooms, French as a second language pedagogy and teacher beliefs.

Current & Future Research

• Examining achievement in French immersion: A comparison of immigrant and Canadian-born English speaking and multilingual students' achievement and motivations. (Principal…

Areas of Specialization:

Research Interests:

Louela comes from a long history in teaching undergraduate nursing students. Her passion is in engaging students in reflection and reconstruction of their experiences within the teaching and learning relationship. She is an advocate of Narrative Inquiry as a foundational learning frame for becoming a nurse. Her educational interests are reflective practice, curriculum design, and program evaluation.

Current & Future Research:

Louela’s doctoral work is entitled “Understanding How…

Group dynamics in sport, exercise, education, and military settings, with populations ranging from child and youth recreational to elite adults. Specific group related topics include cliques, social identity, cohesion, team building, leadership. Within sport, a portion of the research program also emphasizes positive youth development through quality interactions with important social agents (e.g., coaches, peers).

Areas of Specialization:

Snow and ice hydrology; glaciology; glacial geomorphology

Research Interests:

Glacial ablation and volumetric change; snow cover modelling, snow melt, alpine hydrology

Current & Future Research:

Extreme flood events in Auyuittuq National Park, Baffin Island

Snowmelt runoff quality and quantity in the Wasi Watershed, Northeastern Ontario

Areas of Specialization:

​Health and HIV; Global Social Movements; Critical Security Studies; International Political Economy; Feminist International Relations

Areas of Specialization:

Dr. Maynes has focused on the study of curriculum concepts especially related to the development and implementation phases of instruction, direct instruction and indirect instruction/inquiry, strategies for teaching complex thinking skills, and teacher hiring practices and approaches.

Research Interests:

Dr. Maynes is interested in research related to teacher education and professional growth. This includes aspects of teacher education that influence strategy efficacy, service learning, professional reflection, and…

Areas of Specialization:

Areas of expertise are the religious traditions of South Asia with a focus on Hinduism and Buddhism.

Research Interests:

Research interests include: women and religion, religion and the environment and New Religious Movements.

Areas of Specialization

Ecohydrology, Contaminants, Mercury, Climate and Environmental Change, Wetland Restoration, Solute Transport

Research Interests

My research focuses how the interactions and feedbacks between ecohydrological, biogeochemical, and soil physical processes control the movement of water, nutrients, carbon, and contaminants in northern landscapes under a changing climate. I am particularly interested in how the structure of organic soils, like peat, govern water and contaminant flow. I am…

Areas of Specialization:

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Restoration Drama; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Cultural Studies; Popular Culture 

Research Interests:

My current major research project is a study of passionate male friendship s in the Restoration and early eighteenth century. I am interested, first, in the way the writers of this period draw on and transform the "friendship tradition," a set of idealized precepts that reach back to the Classical age. I also wish to explore the ways in which the idea of…

Research Interests:

Her research is in the area of English Education – response to literature and reader response journals.  She has written articles and conducted presentations on gender influence in response journals, pre-service English teachers' attitudes towards employing response journals in classrooms, and authentic engagement with text in student reader response journals. 

Current & Future Research:

Dr. McIntosh's current research program focuses on the reader response journal implementation process used by both pre-service and…

Areas of Specialization:

Canadian Studies, Academic Writing, Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature and Women’s Writing, Gothic Studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies.

Areas of Specialization:

• Simulation in nursing education
• Faculty experiences with simulation/faculty development
• Assessment and education of nurses
• Program/curriculum development
• Competency Mapping to Curriculum

Research Interests:

Current & Future Research:

• Nursing Student Satisfaction & Self-Confidence in Simulation Learning in the Final Semesters of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. Co-PI. Analysis and Dissemination  in progress.
• Compassion…

Areas of Specialization:

Paul Millar, Ph.D. is a researcher and teacher of law and society, sociology, criminology and quantitative methods.

Research Interests:

​Family Law, Equality and the Law, Quantitative Methods

Mary’s research for her MSW thesis asked if harm reduction programs were connecting the personal and political in the lives of women who inject drugs. This question resulted after a focused study in her BSW that explored the childcare options for women seeking residential treatment for substance abuse. Mary has taught social work theory, community development, policies that govern social work practice, placement preparation, substance abuse in Indigenous communities and contemporary issues in Indigenous communities at the college level. Mary has worked as a…

Areas of Specialization:

19th and 20th Century International History, Russian-Soviet history, the History of Secret Intelligence.

Research Interests:

Anglo-Soviet relations in the Interwar (1919-1939) and early Cold War. 

Current & Future Research:

Traitors, True-Believers and British Counter-Intelligence in the 1930s, Soviet Defectors and the Great Purges: Reassessing the world of Walter Krivitsky.

The political economy of globalization in the nineteenth century.

Current & Future Research

We currently have a few projects underway. One is based on an experiment by one of our previous thesis students. The experiment is called "The influence of emotionality on change detection in younger and older adults: A replication and extension". This experiment involves pictures that have been changed either centrally or peripherally. The original picture, a blank screen, followed by the altered picture are flashed continuously until the participant locates the change between the pictures. Each of the pictures used have been…

Research Interests:

North American environmental history; Food and Agriculture; Canadian West; British Columbia.

Current & Future Research:

Empire Grown: Land, Agriculture and the British Colonial Food System in Canada

My major research interrogates the implications for Canadian communities of late-19th to mid-20th century food systems, seeking to discover the effects on local environment, and community cohesion, of a turn from local foods to distant producers in Canada, the United States and the British Empire.

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Dr. Muterera’s research is broad and multidisciplinary. His research in organizational behavior focuses on leader traits and skills, leader behavior and activities, leader power and influence, situational determinants of leader behavior, situational moderator variables, transformational leadership, and the importance of leadership for organizational effectiveness. Additionally, his work explores methodological issues in leadership research and implications for improving managerial practice. He has won several research awards for his leadership research. His other…

From 2009 to 2015, Dr. Nagy was able to conduct participant-observation research at most of the national events of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Her subsequent writing has addressed paths to settler decolonization, settler witnessing, transformative justice, and the scopes and bounds of transitional justice.  From 2013-2020, Dr. Nagy also served as Co-Director and Principle Investigator for the SSHRC-funded Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking (NORAHT). A…

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Social and cultural history of late medieval England with emphasis on gender, and the role of literature in historical analysis.

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​Canadian social and cultural history, family history, and community history

Research Interests:

​Family and community, tourism, local history

Current & Future Research:

Tourism in Northeastern Ontario

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Public health, Community medicine, Clinical epidemiology

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Mental health, Women’s health, quality of life, Community health

Current & Future Research:

Assessment of national health programs, Risk assessment of a defined population, investigating social determinants of women’s health, Social health of women, economic impact of Covid-19 on hospitals, population based programs to prevent domestic violence against women, Revision of…

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​Early Modern Literature

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​Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literary and Cultural Studies; Critical and Cultural Theory, especially Psychoanalytic Criticism; Visual Culture; Film Studies; Body Studies

Current & Future Research:

​My current book-length project, provisionally entitled “Imaginary Anatomy: Effigeal Bodies in Early Modern and Modern Culture,” is a cultural-historical investigation of the effigy and effigeal corporeality in early modern and modern culture, from…

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My interests reflect the themes of teacher, learner, and maternal identity; family and community engagement; narrative self-study, reflective practice, autoethnography; and education as sustainability. Care is the common thread that weaves these together: care of self, care in the world, and care in the classroom (See Designing for Care at Nipissing University’s Teaching Hub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b1VCnl40Mw).

Areas of research include educational leadership & change; inclusive schools; principals' impact on school climate and culture; special education; students at risk; and students with behavioural disorders and/or ADHD, impact of male teachers in the primary/junior grades. 

His current research has three inter-related foci: 

• the principals' role in developing inclusive schools; 
• addressing the needs of the behavioural, at risk student (including ADHD); 
• investigating the role male teachers play in the early, school related…

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​Capitalism, socialism, egalitarianism, labour, democracy, poverty, the welfare state

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The origins of capitalism and the welfare state; democracy, ancient and modern; the relationship between democracy and different forms of social rights; possible pathways to more egalitarian societies

Current & Future Research:

Currently writing a book on the relationship between democracy and social rights.

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Indigenous education; Indigenous research methods; Community-based research; Indigenous health; Cultural safety; Cancer; Indigenous Healing and Traditional Medicine

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My current research interests include the intersections of health, education and Anishinaabe gikendassowin (Indigenous knowledge) and is centered on concepts such as mno bimaadiziwin (way of a good life) and wiidooktaadyang (we are helping each other). My research has explored the lived experiences of…

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​critical media studies; critical race theory; cultural studies; feminist theory; postmodernism; queer theory

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British modernism; postcolonial literature and theory

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Her focus has included the work of women modernists such as Virginia Woolf and Edith Sitwell with an interest in the interplay between modalities such as visual art, music, performance, and literature.  1930s film has also figured in her work, especially as it intersects with colonial and imperial discourses representing Africa and the Caribbean.  More recently, her work has moved a little closer to home in addressing sport and adventure in…

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Dr. Phillips’ research interests are in the area of First Nations/Aboriginal education with an emphasis in special education. 

Current & Future Research

:He is currently researching special education policies and First Nations schools across Canada, the federal government’s role in education, Aboriginal Elders’ views of exceptionality, and the myth of First Nations control of First Nations education.

Ron is currently working on "Elders' View of Exceptionality", "The Federal Government's Role in Education" and…

Anna’s doctoral research weds her clinical practice experience and her concern for the conditions that affect the everyday life and care of adults labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families in rural Ontario.

With the support of a Nipissing University Research Grant, Anna will be utilizing arts-based methods to explore the impact of COVID-19 and associated social and physical distancing measures on adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities living in rural Ontario.

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Her area of expertise and research crosses several disciplines given the interdisciplinarity of her training and research, including Philosophy, Religious Studies, Critical Media Studies and Gender Equality and Social Justice.

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Her particular area of research is focused on feminist philosophies/theologies of the gift, divinity and love.

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Social justice and cultural studies, alternative schooling, holistic education, unschooling

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Unschooling, self-directed learning, reading, the willed curriculum, technology, mobile learning, free schooling, democratic education

Current & Future Research:

Unschooling, self-directed learning, reading, the willed curriculum, technology, mobile learning, free schooling, democratic education

Areas of Specialization:

Physical Education Pedagogy; Curriculum Studies; Social Studies

Research Interests:

Teacher pedagogy, physically active school cultures, mental resiliency, school-based physical activity opportunities, teacher-coach mentorship, inclusive educational environments

Current & Future Research:

Canadian Institute of Health Research Grant (2015-2017): Implementation and Impact Evaluation of a School Travel Planning Program Passing the torch: A school-based mentorship program for teacher-coaches (2016-…

Areas of Specialization:

Terrain analysis; natural hazards; geomorphology; geographic information systems

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Hazardous slope processes; mountains; digital elevation models; Western Cordillera; Himalaya

Current & Future Research:

Debris flow hazards using analysis of digital elevation models

Routing of phosphorus through the Wasi River watershed

TEACHER ENGAGEMENT, TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION, AND LEADERSHIP IN STEM PEDAGOGY: The goal of the TDSB's STEM strategy is to build capacity among TDSB Kindergarten to Grade 12 educators to enhance their STEM pedagogical knowledge, self-efficacy, and promote STEM implementation in classrooms. A critical factor in enhancing STEM across the Board is teacher engagement. This study examined: (1) teacher cognitive and emotional engagement, (2) social engagement with colleagues, students, and leadership, and (3) teacher engagement with STEM and…

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Brain Plasticity

Neuroscience

Consciousness​

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​Literacy Teacher Education; Literacy Engagement; Community-Based Literacy Initiatives; Early Childhood Learning; Children’s Literature

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My research explores student/literacy engagement, community-based literacy initiatives, early childhood education, and literacy teacher education. As a qualitative researcher, I draw on narrative inquiry and case study primarily, to share practitioner and learner stories within educational research. A recent project brought a group of local educators (K-3) to…

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​Biomechanics, with focus on movement in older adults.

Research Interests:

Quantifying changes in movement characteristics that occur across the later years of the life span (between older adults in varying age groups).

Defining the interaction of age and other factors, such as psychological factors (fear of falling, balance confidence), cognitive loading conditions (performing two tasks at the same time compared to one task on its own), and environmental conditions (heat, cold, varying altitude), on movement…

Areas of Specialization:

Bullying and abuse of elementary-aged students

Research Interests:

Democratic education, the hidden curriculum, aboriginal education, difficult-to-teach subject matter, teacher abuse, gender issues in education

Areas of Specialization:

Curriculum, Qualitative Research, Narrative Inquiry

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Narratives of Experience, Self-Study, The Art and Heart of Teaching and Learning, Communities of Practice

Current & Future Research:

Currently working on a book about activities and strategies for gaining access to past stories of experience for self-study work in teacher development

Exercise and health psychology, Behaviour change, Trainer - client interactions, Adherence, Chronic disease, Body Image

I engage in research pertaining to mathematics education and higher education using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. See my website for further details.

Areas of Specialization:

​Canadian Health Care System; Social Gerontology; Sociology of Health, Illness & Mental Disorder; Social Determinants of Health.

Research Interests:

​Health Services Research, Health Informatics, Stress & Social Support, Palliative Care, Social Gerontology

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I am a health services researcher collaborating with a group called interRAI.

InterRAI is a network of clinicians and researchers in over 30 countries committed to improving health care for persons who…

Steven has previously been an instructor with the Nipissing University School of Social Work in the SWRK 4436 Social Work with Youth course, and SWRK 4605 Field Practicum II course.

Areas of Specialization:

Modern Canadian History

Women’s and Gender History

Indigenous and Decolonized Methodologies

Oral History Methodologies

Research Interests:

Anishinaabeg historiesStorytelling, story listening, and memory making

Current & Future Research:

Gaa Bi Kidwaad Maa Nbisiing: A-Kii Bemaadzijik, E-Niigannwang: The Stories of Nbisiing: the Land, the People, the Future  (SSHRC 2017-2022)

Nbisiing Anishinabek Biimadiziwin: to understand the past and shape the future, in partnership…

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Religious ethics and literature, ancient and modern forms of spiritual practice, women and religion, religious attitudes towards death, dying and immortalityAwards/Honours:2012-13 Research Achievement Award, Nipissing University2010-11 Senior O’Connor Fellowship, Georgia College and State University2007-08 The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Nipissing University

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​Topology

Research Interests:

General topology, extensions of maps, function spaces, selection theorems, hyperspace theory

Current & Future Research:

• Operators extending metric structures, real-valued functions and maps satisfying special conditions
• Spaces of finite Hausdorff measure
• Spaces admitting special metrics

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​Science and Environmental Education

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​Focus on the intersection of environmental and secondary science teaching and learning; How STSE and STEM are taught in schools

Current & Future Research:

​Perceived readiness of Pre-Service Teachers to teach STEM topics; Current pedagogies addressing STSE in secondary education

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Critical theory; Film and media studies; Interdisciplinary theory.

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Biography and the archive; Communication technologies; Image ethics; Indigeneity and media in Canada;1960s French cinema culture; Screenwriting; Television aesthetics and politics.

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Dr. Sullivan’s principal research interests are focused on the social context of aging and older age including geriatric mental health, dementia care, social isolation and loneliness, elder abuse, aging without children and gerontological social work education and practice.

Selected Research Awards:

Interdependence and Pathways to (Dis) Concordant Experiences of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Dementia Care (2021-2023)
Sullivan, M.P., Victor, C. (Brunel University London), Williams, V., Grillo, A. (…

Areas of Specialization:

​Geoarchaeology; Relic Shorelines and the early Archaic of the Ottawa, Mattawa, Nipissing Valleys; Thule and Historical Inuit archaeology

Research Interests:

Preceramic settlement-subsistence strategies; Arctic archaeology; expedient lithic technology; public archaeology

Current & Future Research:

​Archaeological site distribution at Chalk River Laboratories; lithic use wear and residue analysis; Archaeological research and training; replicative archaeology

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​His research interests include History of Political Thought, Bioethics, Canadian Foreign Policy and Philosophy of Technology

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​Critical Race Theory; Critical race feminism, Anti-colonial/ settler colonial studies; socio-legal studies; critical pedagogies.

Women's History, North American Political History, Right and Left-Wing Women, Right and Left Movements of protest, Conservative thought and ideology. 

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Student-teacher relationship development in kindergarten classrooms.  Other areas of specialization include children and youth mental health, social work leadership, adjudicated youth and past trauma experiences, and child protection services.

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• Themes of connection and attachment between teachers and students
• Front line transitions into social work leadership
• Addressing past traumatic experiences of youth in conflict with the law

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​Topology and Functional Analysis

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​Dimension theories, extension and averaging operators, extensors, function spaces, homogeneous compacta, topological manifolds, measure spaces, selections for set-valued maps

Current & Future Research:

​Dimensions, extension and averaging operators, homogeneous compacta, selections for set-valued maps

Areas of Specialization:

Narrative Inquiry, Curriculum-Teaching-Learning, Experiential Learning, Nursing Education, and Inquiry Based Learning.

Research Interests:

• Anyinam, C., Coffey, S., Vanderlee R., Da Silva, S., Smith, F., Zitzelsberger, H., Thompson, J., & Odette, F. ($217,183). Partnership for applied research to support the development and evaluation of the Post-Secondary Students with Disabilities Network (PSDNet) Funder: SSHRC- Community and College Social Innovation Fund – 2015/17
• Co-primary Investigator -…

Areas of Specialization:

Computational Geometry, Algorithmic Graph Theory, Optimization

Research Interests:

Longest Paths in Graphs, Optimal Triangulations

Current & Future Research:

Optimization Problems on Graphs (NSERC Discovery Grant 2011-2016)

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Since Dr. Vitale has spent over 12 years in the secondary school music classroom, it is not surprising that music education lies at the core of his overall research agenda. From a research perspective, Dr. Vitale has identified 6 portals of interest:  
 

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Areas of Specialization:

Higher education, critical pedagogies, anti-racism, feminist theories and social work practice.

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Currently, I am exploring the leadership of social science research teams in higher education. Specifically, the project focuses on the challenges of social justice approaches to research in the current academic context. My other research interests include exploring critical approaches to teaching and the significance of emotions to learning.  Another current project involves evaluating the provision…

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Behavioural neuroscienceneural basis of learning and memoryanimal models of fear and anxietyanimal models of maternal behaviour

Research Interests:

Neurobiology of Learning and MemorySynaptic Structural Change during Neural PlasticityEffects of Environmental Toxins on Learning and Memory

Current & Future Research:

Nipissing University (July 2000 - Present)

As an Associate Professor of Psychology I am continuing my research on the synaptic basis of learning and memory. I am currently…

Veronika’s research predominately focuses on improving health care services and patient care. Her research focuses on the experiences of people living with a long-term condition (with a particular interest in chronic respiratory disease and older people) and how we can support their self-management and health care needs. Her other interests are in health services research, such as skill mix and health service delivery in the health care workforce (with a focus on primary/ community health care settings), and digital health. She also has a strong interest in…

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Children's Literature; Fantasy; Fandom; Theology and Literature

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Her work focuses on British High Fantasy since 1950, in particular the construction and representation of evil.  She is currently working on a monograph titled The White Witch, the Golden Monkey, and the Dark Mark: Constructions of Evil in the Fiction of C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, and J.K. Rowling.

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Sociology of Education; Social Inequality; Sociology of Work; Quantitative Research Methods

Research Interests:

Postsecondary Educational Choices, Labour Market Outcomes, School-to-work Transitions, School Discipline Practices, Poverty, Student Achievement, Literacy and Skills, Cross-national Comparisons

Click here to view David's CRC profile: Canada Research Chair in Life Course Transitions in Northern…

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​Software engineering, programming technologies, collaborative technologies and systems, role-based collaboration, adaptive collaboration

Research Interests:

​Multi-agent systems, role-based systems, group performance optimization, group role assignment

Current & Future Research:

​Adaptive collaboration based on the E-CARGO model, group role assignment applications in winner determination problems, visualization of role assignment and transfer

Areas of Specialization:

Lifestyle modification for hypertension control

Randomized controlled trial and pilot study

Immigrant and minority health

Application of Traditional Chinese Medicine for chronic illness management

Chronic illness management in community

Culturally sensitive nursing intervention

Research Interests:

Dietary intervention to prevent and treat hypertensionLifestyle modification and chronic illness controlIncorporation of Traditional Chinese Medicine for chronic illness…