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Our Members
The members of our research centre are a diverse group of individuals with varied backgrounds, expertise, and interests and a passion for research in education. Together, we are working to make a meaningful impact on society and the world at large.
Amanda Williams-Yeagers
Contractual Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: Connection between pedagogy and andragogy; AI in education
Anne Brisland
Contractual Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: Comprehensive Health Education and Social Justice; Effective Teaching Methods for Sexual Health Education; Character Development through Activity, Games and Sport
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Equity and social justice in education and sports; Decolonization in education; Standardized testing
Avis Beek
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: STEM education; Comparative and international Education; Interculturalism
Contract Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: Refugee transitions to Ontario school systems; Social and cultural capital (Bourdieuian theory); Critical friendship in educational contexts
Dale Taylor
Contractual Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: White, Anglo, western bias found in most national curricula and the International Baccalaureate Diploma
Contract Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: Co-curricular learning inpost-secondary contexts; Organiztional development and capacity building; Research and innovation in the public sector
Contractual Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: Belonging & inclusion in higher education; Student development;Identity
Contractual Teaching Faculty
Research Interests:Indigenization in teacher education and early career teaching
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Mathematics education; Teacher beliefs and concepts of mathematics; Mathematics knowledge for teaching
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: French as a second language (FSL) in initial teacher education programs; Increasing the number of FSL teachers
Professor
Research Interests: Mobile technology in teaching and learning; Learning to teach in a digital age; Assessment of problem solving and computationa thinking
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Higher education; Student affairs and services; Student mental health and well being
Professor, Dean
Research Interests: Innovation in education;Work-integrated learning/practicum models; Collaborative inquiry
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Post-secondary education; Curriculum teaching and learning; Educational theory and policy
Contract Teaching Faculty
Research Interest: Experiential learning, Play-based learning, Curriculum and learning
Contract Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: Instructional technology; Rural education; Child and youth care
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Multiliteracies; Gender and sexual identities; Curriculum
Contractual Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: Diversity, equity and inclusion; Newcomers/refugee education; Compassion-based frameworks/well-being
Contractual Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: Educational technology; Distance education; Blended learning, and Educational leadership
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Indigenous education; Decolonial pedagogies; Anticolonial and decolonization practices
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Elementary and secondary mathematics teaching and learning; Teacher beliefs; Equity in mathematics
Professor, CLRiE Executive Committee Member
Research Interests: School leadership; Special education; Comparitive and international education
Contract Teaching Faculty; WRDSB School Administrator
Research Interests: Supporting the advancement of equity deserving communities within the current colonial educational structures; Neurodivergent learners; Wellbeing of Principals and Vice-Principals
Contractual Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: Education outreach for remote and less privileged communities; Education social mobilization; Teacher training and pedagogy coaching
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Literacy engagement; Multiliteracies; Community based literacy initiatives
Contractual Teaching Faculty
Research Interests: Reframing disability from a strength-based perspective; Child learning and development; Health and wellness
Professor, CLRiE Director
Research Interests: Reading in English as second language learners; Reading comprehension; Vocabulary acquisition
Professor
Research Interests: Developmental Psychology; Learning psychology: Learning across the lifespan
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Sports and exercise psychology; Built environment; Health promotion
Professor
Research Interests: Children's testimony in sexual abuse interrogation; How children learn and remember from multiple sources; Children's wellbeing
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Socio-moral development in early and middle childhood; Individual differences in moral judgments and reasoning; Moral emotions (e.g., sympathy, guilt) and morally relevant behaviors such as aggression and kindness
Michael Bitton
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Coastal Geomorphology, and Geography Education in University
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Children and adults with and without neurodevelopmental disabilities (e.g. autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder)
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Place based research methods; Biopsychosocial impacts of domicide; Experience of war affected families
Professor
Research Interests: Migration - skilled immigrants, immigration, race/racism/ant-black racism
Associate Professor
Research Inetersts: Community and global mental health; Immigrant health; International social work
Professor, CLRiE Executive Committee Member
Research Interests: LGBTQ campus climate; Wellbeing, mental health, academic development and resilience among LQBTQ youth; LGBTQ people and social exclusion and inclusion
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Experiential, creative and embodied learning pedagogies in social work learning; Art based research methodologies; gender and mental health
Assistant Professor, CLRiE Executive Committee Member
Research Interests: Education and curriculum studies; Social entrepreurship and innovation; Critical discourse analysis
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Homelessness; Social Exclusion; Marginalization
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Human anatomy and physiology; Animal cell biology and tissue culture; Higher education pedagogy
Associate Professor, CLRiE Associate Director
Research Interests: Social Emotional Learning; Social relationships; Online aggression and associated mental health concerns
Associate Professor, CLRiE Executive Committee Member
Research Interests: Future skills and ensuring educational opportunity; Law and inequality; Public law / law and regulation
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Community based research; Sex education; Gender and health
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Music, citizenship and community engagement; Equity and inclusion in formal and nonformal music learning environments; Art based research methods
Associate Dean
Research Interests: Opera; Classical singing/pedagogy; Body Mapping for Musicians
Professor
Research Interests: Music education; Music and wellness; Instructional strategies
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Humanitarian aid involving technologies; Healthcare systems; Organizational routines
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Case research including case writing, treaching and diversity
PhD Student in Developmental Psychology,
Research Interests: Mental Health; Language Acquisition/Culture
Master of Arts in Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: Heritage langauge loss and maintenance across cultural contexts; Acculturation; Intergenerational communication through the use of technology
Master of Education; Founder Andrew Bieronski Consulting
Research Interests: Inovation and Inclusion in K-12 education; Universal Design for learning; Generative AI in educaional settings
PhD Student in Developmental Psychology; Lab coordinator and community outreach coordinator at CARE lab
Research Interests: Social media influencers and how they impact the social-emotional development and overall wellbeing of emerging adults; The "item girl" in South Asian cinema and her impact on beauty standards and perceptions of women; Authenticity and identity development
Master of Education
Research Interests: Adult education; Teaching and learning in a digital world
Master of Education
Research Interests: Adult education
Master of Education in Interdisciplinary Studies
Research Interests: AMental health and well-being
Carlye Brokl
PhD Student in Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: children's readiness to enter formal education - cognitive and linguistic factors contribute to their readiness (i.e., metacognition, theory of mind, executive functioning, language acquisition)
PhD Student in Policy Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University; Alumni
Research Interests: Prison Education; Desistance; Reintegration from prison
Undergraduate Student
Reserach Interests: Equity in education, Decolonizing education
Master of Education in Interdisciplinary Studies
Research Interests: Accessible education; Literate and numerate citizenship (ableism) Universal Design for Learning and Professional Development for classroom teachers; Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
Impact Manager, Let's Talk Science; Alumni
Research Interests: STEM education; Development of global competencies and critical skills
PhD Student in Developmental Psychology; Lab Manager at the Gottardo Language and Literacy Lab, CLRiE Executive Committee Member - Student Representative
Research Interests: Early language and literacy development; Parent-child shared book reading; Early intervention literacy program development
PhD Student in Developmental Psychology; CLRiE Student Executive Committee Member
Research Interests: Learning Psychology; STEM Education; Educational Psychology
MEd; International Student Advisor at Toronto Metropolitan University
Research Interests: Impact of educational experiences on students
BSc Psychology
Research Interests: Mental health and well-being
Prabhneet Tibb
MEd Interdisciplinary Studies
Research Interests: Math education; Education Psychology; Research education
SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellow
Research Interests:Comparative and international education, educational leadership, educational policy
BA in Psychology and Crimnology
Research Interests: Gender bias in autism diagnoses of young racialized women; Policy development regarding sex work and domestic violence
PhD Student in Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: English language acquisition in Chinese children; Language acquisition and literacy development in second-generation Chinese immigrants; Reading in English as a second language
School Administrator, Surrey School District
Research Interests: How mental health and wellness affects school membership and engagement; History / trauma informed practice in education and how it affects learning styles
Doctoral student at Western University; Special Education Teacher Ottawa Carleton DSB
Research Interests: Disability justice
Doctoral student at McMaster University; Trainee in the Offord Centre for Child Studies in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
Research Interests: Children’s emotion self-regulation; Family systems and developmental psychopathology; Development of evidence-based preventative intervention (i.e., parenting programs) oriented toward children and caregivers
Assistant Professor, Redeemer University
Research Interests: Educators’ professional and personal identity- and capacity-building to address emotional labour in teaching; Lumina Spark© psychometric research; Comparative and international education
Consultant, Horizon Educational Consulting
Research Interests: Special education and the intersection of human rights in education; Education law; Special needs populations (preschool to post-secondary)
Member, System Dynamics Society, Turkey
Research Interests: Systems Thinking; Pre-College Education
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Prince Edward Island
Research Interests: Chemical education; Learner development through post-secondary; Modernizing instructional resources.
Lecturer, University of Waterloo - Renison University College
Research Interests: Language Education
Director, Learning for Humanity
Research Interests: Education and improved learning/population health outcomes; Education and development in the global south; Intersection of education and technology
Tim Pugh
WRDSB Elementary Administrator
Research Interests: Educator-Practitioner driven action research; Living educational theory; Technology enhanced education
Research Fellow
Research Interests: Methods to enhance teaching and learning; School’s role in equipping students with competencies to understand local and global issues; Evaluating professional development approaches for educating teachers and teacher candidates
Lecturer, Dar es Salam University College of Education, Tanzania
Research Interests: School climate; School bullying and cyberbullying; Technology and media in children and youth's development