Staff
Department Chair
John McNamara, Professor
905-688-5550 x3835
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Administrative Coordinator
Lisa Dilts
905-688-5550 x5243
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Undergraduate Program Director
Shauna Pomerantz, Professor
905-688-5550 x5371
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Academic Advisor
Lindsay Cramp
905-688-5550 x6368
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Academic Advisor
Catherine Carlucci
905-688-5550 x4299
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Graduate Program Director
Heather Ramey, Assistant Professor
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Graduate Administrative Coordinator
Lora Nero
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Student Learning Facilitator
Kristen Rose
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Student Learning Facilitator
Hannah Anderson
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Student Learning Facilitator
Jo-Anne Sinnige-Egger
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Faculty

Naomi Andrews
Associate Professor
905-688-5550 x4654
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Contact for availability to supervise
Social adjustment and problem behaviours (aggression and victimization); healthy and unhealthy relationships; aggression and bullying; trauma; mother-child relationships

Heather Chalmers
Professor
905-688-5550 x3191
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Contact for availability to supervise
Young carers; risk behaviours (i.e. gambling) and identity formation; gender differences and decision-making

Maureen Connolly
Professor, Physical Education and Kinesiology
905-688-5550 x3381
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Contact for availability to supervise
Critical approaches to health and the body; autism and movement; curriculum and inclusion; narrative and arts-based inquiry; critical disability studies; phenomenology and semiotics; experiential contexts

Dan Cui
Associate Professor
905-688-5550 x4548
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Contact for availability to supervise
Immigration studies; sociology of education; international education; race, ethnicity and class; social justice and equity studies

Suzanne Curtin
Vice-Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs
Professor
905-688-5550 x5346
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Contact for availability to supervise
Language and development; speech perception; word learning; oral language foundations for cognitions

Hannah Dyer
Associate Professor
905-688-5550 x4323
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Cultural studies; arts and aesthetics; critical theory; gender and sexuality; racialization and racism; psychoanalysis; theories of trauma

Ann Farrell
Assistant Professor
905-688-5550 x4807
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Contact for availability to supervise
Development of bullying; aggression and violence; bullying and mental health; risk factors and health outcomes of bullying

Christiana Okyere Folson
Assistant Professor
905-688-5550 x5579
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Contact for availability to supervise
Racialized children and youth with disabilities; intellectual and developmental disabilities; inclusive education; equity and social justice; school and community-based services/interventions; experiences with employment

Kaitlin Fredericks
Assistant Professor
Member of Forensic Psychology & Criminal Justice
905-688-5550 x6769
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Contact for availability to supervise
Youth and criminal social justice; community-based prevention and intervention programs; positive youth development; youth conceptualization and experiences of success

Reading; reading challenges; developmental psychology and educational intervention lenses; genetics and neurobiological facets of reading and reading disorders; motivational aspects of learning

Allyson Ion
Assistant Professor
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Community-based research; child welfare; intersectionality; anti-oppressive practice; anti-carceral social work; critical policy analysis

Chelsea Jones
Associate Professor
905-688-5550 x5579
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Critical disability studies; disability activism; disability art; disability justice; storytelling; media telling with the community

Matthew Kwan
Associate Professor
905-688-5550 x5682
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Contact for availability to supervise
Determinants of physical activity and health-promoting behaviour; mental health and well-being; physical literacy and activity; development coordination disorder

Voula Marinos
Professor
Past-Director of Forensic Psychology & Criminal Justice
905-688-5550
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Contact for availability to supervise
Court processes and criminal law; plea bargaining; criminal justice policy and reform; sentencing and punishment; mental health; intellectual disabilities and the courts; alternatives to imprisonment; diversion from the youth justice system

John McNamara
Department Chair and Professor
905-688-5550 x3835
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Contact for availability to supervise
Language and learning disabilities; early identification and prevention of reading problems; dyslexia; literacy intervention


Danielle S. Molnar
Canada Research Chair (Tier II) Adjustment and Well-Being in Children and Youth
Associate Professor
Brock University I Department of Child and Youth Studies
Associate Member
Brock University I Department of Psychology
Director of the Developmental Processes and Well-Being Lab
905-688-5550 x6127
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Contact for availability to supervise
Risk and resilience factors in health and well-being across the lifespan; perfectionism; parental and educator perceptions of perfectionism

Mental health and well-being; social and cultural contexts; trauma-informed pedagogy and practice; equity; social justice and decolonization; qualitative research methods

Erin Panda
Associate Professor
905-688-5550 x3178
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Contact for availability to supervise
Developmental and educational neuroscience research; attention; reading and language; mental health and attention control; reading interventions for children with reading disabilities

Shauna Pomerantz
Professor, Child and Youth Studies
Undergraduate Program Director
905-688-5550 x5371
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Contact for availability to supervise
Media studies; youth studies; gender and education; sociology of education; intersectionality; social justice; feminist, post-structual and post-human theories

Rebecca Raby
Acting Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor, Child and Youth Studies
905-688-5550 x3172
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Contact for availability to supervise
Sociological constructions of childhood and youth; intersectionality of gender, race, class, sexuality and disability; privilege and discrimination; agency, resistance and participation

Heather Ramey
Graduate Program Director
Associate Professor
905-688-5550 x4069
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Contact for availability to supervise
Child and youth engagement; youth well-being; community programs; child and youth care

Christine Tardif-Williams
Professor
905-688-5550 x4557
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Contact for availability to supervise
Family-based relationships with caregivers and animals; young people’s well-being; social understanding and interaction with caregivers

Donato Tarulli
Associate Professor
905-688-5550 x4513
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Contact for availability to supervise

Ayda Tekok-Kilic
Professor
905-688-5550 x3937
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Contact for availability to supervise
Anxiety; ADHD; mental health; cognitive, sensory and temperamental aspects of cognitive control and emotional regulation

Behavioural assessment and treatment relating to Autism Spectrum Disorder; functional behaviour-based CBT for obsessive compulsive behaviour in children with ASD; parent training; school consultation

Child and adolescent development using a multidisciplinary lens; evolutionary approaches; bullying; parenting; antisocial personality

Terrance Wade
Professor, Health Sciences
905-688-5550 x4146
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Contact for availability to supervise

Dawn Zinga
Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Graduate Studies and Research
Professor, Child and Youth Studies
905-688-5550 x3152
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Contact for availability to supervise
Research as a form of play; competitive dancers; social comparison; mental health and wellness among young people
Adjuncts

Sujane Kandasamy
Adjunct Professor
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Knowledge translation and mobilization; newcomer health; planetary health and environmental sustainability; healthy active living interventions for children and youth of diverse backgrounds; newcomer health

Natalie Spadafora
Adjunct Professor
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Classroom incivility in adolescence; peer relationships; antisocial behaviour; educator experiences in the classroom
Emeriti
Maurice Feldman
Professor Emeritus
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Dorothy Griffiths
Professor Emeritus
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Tom O’Neill
Professor Emeritus
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Frances Owen
Professor Emeritus
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Memoriam
The Late Zopito Marini
Professor