{"id":103282,"date":"2025-07-16T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=103282"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:51:36","slug":"faculty-of-graduate-studies-and-postdoctoral-affairs-appoints-new-associate-deans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/07\/faculty-of-graduate-studies-and-postdoctoral-affairs-appoints-new-associate-deans\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs appoints new Associate Deans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (FGSPA) has welcomed Wendy Ward and Philip Sullivan as its new Associate Deans, effective July 1.<\/p>\n

Ward and Sullivan\u2019s new roles divide the previous Associate Dean position into two part-time roles focusing on Student Success, and Policy and Programs. As Associate Deans, they share complementary strengths and a commitment to supporting students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty in every phase of the graduate journey.<\/p>\n

Sullivan has assumed the role of Associate Dean, Student Success, for a three-year term.<\/p>\n

A faculty member at Brock since 2000, the Professor of Kinesiology has served as Chair and Graduate Program Director in Kinesiology and as head coach of the Brock men\u2019s rugby team.<\/p>\n

His research focuses on team dynamics, effective coaching and student-athlete mental health, including a partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association<\/a> aimed at supporting student-athletes’ well-being.<\/p>\n

Ward, an expert in research and academic policy, will serve as Interim Associate Dean, Policy and Programs for a one-year term.<\/p>\n

As Professor of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, her research interests include nutritional sciences and bone cell biology.<\/p>\n

Ward previously held a Canada Research Chair in Bone and Muscle Development and has played a national leadership role as part of the Nutrition Working Group for the 2023 Clinical Practice Guideline on Osteoporosis and Fracture Prevention in Canada.<\/p>\n

Ward and Sullivan succeed Brian Roy, who served as Associate Dean from 2020 to 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (FGSPA) has welcomed Wendy Ward and Philip Sullivan as its new Associate Deans, effective July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":103286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,55,1],"tags":[386,12849,14720,4327,1516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103282"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103295,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103282\/revisions\/103295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}