Interested in learning more about our faculty’s research areas or finding a supervisor? The list below provides an at-a-glance summary of each faculty member’s research interests, indicates who may be available to supervise ABA and LDCC students, and links to lab websites where available. Please click on a faculty member’s name to view their full profile, contact information and recent publications.
| Faculty | Available to supervise | Research interests | Lab website |
| Courtney Bishop | Yes - ABA and LDCC | human rights advocacy; development of accessible tools and assistive technologies; effective and efficient service systems; systems-level analysis and service framework evaluation; community-engaged participatory action | |
| Andrew Bonner | Yes - ABA | nurturing communities; school-based prevention initiatives; family interventions; climate change and sustainability | NEST Lab |
| Priscilla Burnham Riosa | Yes - ABA and LDCC | therapeutic rapport; compassionate care; parent-child and family relationships; mental health; understanding family experiences of disability; strengths-based research; leadership and wellbeing in the workplace; community-engaged participatory research; mixed methods research; physical wellness interventions | Burnham Riosa Lab |
| Jessica Cauchi | Yes - ABA and LDCC | sexuality education for individuals with autism; conceptual analysis of rapport and effective training practices; evaluation of assent-based practices; teaching and evaluation of skill development across the lifetime | The So What Lab |
| Rosemary Condillac | Yes - ABA and LDCC | evidence-based and trauma informed practices in the assessment and treatment of challenging behaviour for individuals with disabilities; service recipient self-determination and agency in ABA services; diverse applications of ABA; ABA ethics; behaviour skills training and quality of behavioural interventions; DEI training and impacts; wellbeing of community practitioners, behaviour analysts, faculty and students; intersectional experiences of post-secondary students from marginalized groups | |
| Alison Cox | Yes - ABA | effects of psychotropic medication on behaviour; tool development and evaluation; program evaluation; examining systematic approaches to fading restraint and restrictive interventions | |
| Carolyn Crysdale | No | contingent vocal imitation; verbal behaviour interventions; joint attention; caregiver responsiveness to young autistic children; verbal behaviour intervention and treatment; infant behaviour interventions | |
| Kieva Hranchuk | Yes - ABA | teacher/clinician training; supervision of evidence-based service delivery to clients with and without disabilities; data analysis techniques including decision analysis protocols and the use of artificial intelligence; verbal behaviour development; CABAS® (Comprehensive Application of Behaviour Analysis to Schooling) model; the behaviour science behind marketing and sales | |
| Joshua Jessel | Yes - ABA | developing compassionate and trauma-informed methods for addressing complex behaviour exhibited by learners with intellectual and developmental disabilities specific to functional assessment and skill-based supports | |
| Julie Koudys | No | improving supervisor skill repertoires and supervisee training experiences; enhancing behaviour analytic service provision through evidence-based approaches to collaborative care; strategies to improve the use of augmentative and alternative communication systems through parent training and effective instructional strategies; evaluating parent-implemented behavioural interventions to address sleep difficulties; diverse applications of ABA | |
| Nicole Luke | No | strategic science of instruction for both adult and child learners; verbal behaviour development; use of advanced technology like virtual reality to design learning environments | Luke Lab and Star Lab |
| Laura Mullins | No | community-engaged participatory research to address individual, organizational, and systemic factors that affect the quality of life of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities; accessibility within post-secondary education; exploring applied behaviour analysis practices through an applied disability studies lens | IPAR |
| Valdeep Saini | Yes - ABA | understanding canine cognition through research on human–animal relationships, including dog-assisted therapy for autistic individuals, to strengthen the human–animal bond and improve human and animal welfare | BARC Lab |
| Kendra Thomson | No | translating evidence-based behavioural strategies to empower care providers, professionals, and people with developmental disabilities and their families | Thomson Lab |
| Lisa Whittingham | Yes - ABA and LDCC | persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities (e.g., autism, FASD) and the criminal legal system; training justice professionals and first responders; construction of vulnerability and risk in persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities; the construction and embodiment of disability in first responders | |
| Kimberley Zonneveld | Yes - ABA | assessment and treatment of pediatric feeding difficulities; assessment and treatment of executive function skills; behavioural interventions that leverage technology and innovative teaching formats; using group contingencies and data-based decision systems to improve classwide performance and physical activity in educational settings; diverse applications of ABA | Zonneveld Lab |
