Dr. Anthony Volk
Professor, Child and Youth Studies
Prof. Tony Volk is a Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies and an Associate Member of the Department of Psychology. He studies parenting, aggression, personality, and the evolution of childhood through a combination of evolutionary, historical, anthropological, and psychological lenses that reflect his interdisciplinary approach to research. Here are links to his research webpage as well as his Google Scholar and Researchgate profiles.
Dr. Ann Farrell
Assistant Professor, Child and Youth Studies
Dr. Ann Farrell is an Assistant Professor in Child and Youth Studies at Brock University. Her research centers on a multidisciplinary understanding of bullying as a complex social problem, including the processes among individual, social, environmental, and cultural factors associated with youth bullying. Ann is an exceptional young scholar who brings a wealth of skills to our team. Ann’s web page can be found here, along with her Google Scholar and Researchgate profiles.
Dr. Andrew Dane
Chair, Psychology
Dr. Andrew Dane is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Psychology. His research interests center around the study of children’s aggression. In broad terms, he is interested in identifying social factors that contribute to continuities and discontinuities in aggressive and antisocial behavior, with a particular emphasis on underlying social-cognitive mechanisms. The ultimate objective of his research is to delineate critical developmental pathways that might be amenable to intervention. That means he cares about outcomes as well as answers. His personal page can be found here and his Google Scholar profile is here.
Dr. Naomi Andrews
Assistant Professor, Child and Youth Studies
Dr. Naomi Andrews is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies. Broadly, her research focuses on applying a relational perspective to understand children and youth’s social adjustment and problem behaviors (e.g., aggression, victimization). From the lens that these problem behaviors are inherently social phenomena, she has focused on disentangling the complex social relationship processes that underlie problem behaviors. Naomi is an international scholar who is also our resident expert on social network analysis. Naomi’s research webpage can be found here, and she has both a Researchgate and Google Scholar profile available.