Adjunct faculty

Name	Area
Jeffrey Ansloos PhD (Fuller), Adjunct assistant professor	Suicide and suicide prevention Indigenous health Social policy Community-based and systems-level change processes needed to advance social and health equity within Canada, with a particular focus on Indigenous rights The role of emergent technologies at the intersection of community mobilization and social change
Carol Amaratunga PhD (Toronto), Adjunct associate professor	Health Women's and family issues
Anne Becker PhD (Harvard), MD (Harvard), Adjunct associate professor	Cultural mediation of body image and eating disorders in Fiji Social transition and risk for eating disorders in Fiji Global mental health
Nancy Bell PhD (Glasgow), Adjunct assistant professor	Human rights, with emphasis on child and youth rights Socio-legal research and human rights Social policy analysis Human rights monitoring and implementation Public services redress structures Non-traditional remedies and institutional responses to human rights violations Institutional ethnography
Jeremy Berland MSW (UBC), Adjunct assistant professor	Working with families where neglect is a concern Outcome measurement in child welfare Workload measurement Organizational culture
Larry Brendtro PhD (Michigan), Adjunct assistant professor	Strength-based assessment, treatment and education Building resilience in youth at risk Indigenous youth in the dominant culture Building positive youth cultures From coercive to restorative climates with troubled youth The resilient brain
Terri-Lynn Brennan Ed.D (Toronto), Adjunct assistant professor	Anti-colonialism First Peoples/Indigenous approaches to community development Decolonizing pedagogy Intangible cultural heritage
Martin Brokenleg EdD (S. Dakota), Adjunct associate professor	Resiliency in youth at risk Social issues affecting all youth Risk factors affecting Indigenous youth Indigenous cultural traditions Indigenaity and cultural renaissance Dynamics of gender and sexual orientation
Roy Brown PhD (London), Adjunct professor	Quality of life for people with disabilities and their families Evaluation of disability service programs Mental imagery amongst persons with disabilities Applying research to practice in the disabilities field Research design in applied research
Catherine A. Cameron PhD (London), Adjunct professor	Cross-cultural studies of verbal deception: Canada/China/Japan/USA comparisons Young children's stress reactivity to a moral choice Ecological studies of development in cultural context: The early years in Canada, Thailand, Italy, UK, Peru, USA and Turkey Day in the life of resilient adolescents in eight locations around the globe: Four communities in Canada paired with communities in India, China, Thailand and South Africa Young children's telephone discourse with family members: Relationships with emergent literacy Evaluation of school-based violence prevention, especially gender-sensitive interventions Resilience during transitions: Early childhood years, early adolescence, and the transition to university Teenagers' perceptions of intimate relationships
Grant Charles PhD (UVic), Adjunct associate professor	Child welfare Young carers Community partnerships Field education and supervision
Margaret Dabor PhD (Sierra Leone), Adjunct assistant professor	Curriculum development Training and policy in Africa Focus on early childhood development (ECD) Girl-child education
Enid Elliot PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor	Bridging theory and practice in early childhood Research that involves children under six, under three, as researchers The complexities of infant and toddler care Natural play spaces in early childhood programs The narratives of early childhood educators Children's play, learning and engagement in the outdoors
Nigel Fisher PhD (McMaster), Adjunct assistant professor	International development Children affected by armed conflict Public policy Fragile states Poverty and insecurity Innovation and development Comparative development of Canada's Aboriginal communities and countries of the global South
Leslie T. Foster PhD (Toronto), Adjunct professor	Child/youth health and welfare policy development and decision making Youth health and development indicators Mapping health and development indicators Issues related to knowledge transfer for improved decision making
Thom Garfat PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor	Residential CYC practice The therapeutic use of daily life events Engagement with families in CYC practice Relational CYC practice Self in CYC Outcomes that matter in working with young people and families The application of the circle of change
Kiaras Gharabaghi PhD (Dalhousie), Adjunct assistant professor	Life-space intervention Residential care and treatment Education experiences of children and youth in care Social pedagogy models of care Community-based interventions in an international context
Graham Giles PhD (UBC), Adjunct assistant professor	Ethics and ethical inquiry in education Ontology, subjectivity and educational leadership Indigenous epistemologies and approaches to education Indigenous early childhood care and education Innovation in education (especially rural education) Participatory and Indigenous research methodologies, including Indigenous storywork,, dreamwork, participatory video documentation of Oral Tradition Psychoanalytic, poststructural, postcolonial and political theory in educational research
Rebecca Gokiert PhD (Alberta), Adjunct assistant professor	Early childhood measurement and evaluation Validity of screening and assessment processes and tools Cross-cultural approaches to screening and assessment Mixed methodologies and community-based research and evaluation
Jaswant Guzder PhD (McGill), Adjunct professor	Child mental health - high risk children, personality disorder risk Help seeking of families Cultural consultation model of care - minority communities at risk
Laurie Harding EdD (Simon Fraser), Adjunct assistant professor	Indigenous cultural safety White and settler privilege Anti-Indigenous racism education for students/practitioners working in child and youth care, child and family services, health, justice, mental health
John Hart PhD (Southern California), Adjunct associate professor	Gender studies/men's issues Fathering Indigenous traditional healing Meditation training for youth health and well-being
Lindsay Herriot PhD (Alberta), Adjunct assistant professor	Multicultural education Queer and transgender youth Social justice Youth participation in educational reform Gender justice Feminist ethic of care
B. Denise Hodgins PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor	twenty-first century early childhood education and care pedagogies and research methods materialdiscursive (re)constructions of gender and care pedagogical narrations as a postfoundational methodology children's material relations histories of early childhood education and care
S. Mikael Jansson PhD (London, ON), Adjunct assistant professor	Disadvantaged/vulnerable populations Licit and illicit substance use Research ethics Life transitions Health status and access to health services Mixed/comparative methods, survey research Community-academic collaboration Street-involved youth Persons working in the sex industry
Sylvia Kind PhD (UBC), Adjunct assistant professor	Early childhood curriculum Children's artistic and expressive languages Studio research and the role of the atelier in early childhood Art practice as living inquiry
Philip C. Lancaster PhD (Ottawa), Adjunct assistant professor	Child soldiers Children affected by armed conflict Sexual and gender-based violence Political philosophy Genocide
Kofi Marfo PhD (Alberta), Adjunct professor	Early child development, including care and education Development science and social policy Socio-cultural contexts of human development Parent-child interaction Early intervention: program efficacy Critical analysis of applied research Cognition, learning, and instruction Evaluation of educational interventions/innovations Mental retardation/developmental disabilities International perspectives in developmental practice
Gord Miller PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor	Child and youth health promotion Social welfare services and policy development Community youth development School as a setting for health promotion Social determinants of health Adolescent health Collaborative action research Evaluation models and approaches
Peter Moss MA (London), Adjunct associate professor	Early childhood services Relationship between early years services, schools, and free-time services Workforce in services for children and young people Leave policies for parents Relationship between care and employment
Michelle Neuman PhD (Columbia), Adjunct assistant professor	International early childhood care and development Child and family policy in comparative perspective Education politics and policy International education development Program evaluation
Janet Newbury PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor	Intergenerational and intercultural engagement Community-based approaches to economic and social development Social justice Suicide prevention Disability Working across differences Participatory action research Qualitative research methods
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw BA, MEd (York), PhD (Toronto)	Early childhood studies Common worlds childhoods and pedagogies (Post)colonial and ecological relations in early childhood Decolonizing strategies in early childhood pedagogies Children's relations and places and materials Multispecies relations Children's geographies
Rajendra Prasad Parajuli PhD (Tokyo), Adjunct assistant professor	Children’s health Community health Environmental epidemiology Environmental health
Carmen Rodriguez PhD (UVic), Adjunct assistant professor	Aboriginal childrearing practices Aboriginal worldviews Bilingual education Identity and child development across cultures Multicultural approaches to teaching and learning
Shlomo Romi PhD (OISE), Adjunct associate professor	Non-formal education, qualification of workers and residential schools Psychological assessment, custody cases and psychological characteristics of dropout and delinquent youth Youth in distress, training workers and therapeutic intervention
Blythe Shepard PhD (UVic), Adjunct associate professor	Rural youth Families and children living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Training/Supervision of helpers Narrative methodology Child and family responses to natural disasters
Hans Skott-Myhre PhD (Minnesota), Adjunct assistant professor	Globalization Radical youthwork Youth subcultures Philosophy of child and youth studies Body practices and creative force of childhood and youth Children, youth and popular culture Qualitative and ethnographic research methods Post-colonial/post-capitalist subjectivity
Victoria Smye PhD (UBC), Adjunct assistant professor	Access to mental health and addictions care Inequities in access to mental health and addictions care with a particular focus on Aboriginal peoples and women Long term health effects for women leaving intimate partner violence Aboriginal women's experiences of leaving intimate partner violence Suicide prevention
Carol Stuart PhD (UVic), Adjunct associate professor	Professional practice standards Evidence based practice Youth resilience and youth at risk Participatory research and qualitative approaches to research
Beth Blue Swadener PhD (Wisconsin-Madison), Adjunct professor	Decolonization of research in cross-cultural contexts Cultural diversity and an early childhood education Inclusion of children with disabilities Homelessness international context/street children and youth Social policies affecting children and families
Affrica Taylor PhD (New South Wales), Adjunct professor	Geographies of childhood Settler colonial place relations Common worlds childhoods and pedagogies (see web page: ) Children’s multispecies relations Indigenous childhoods and ontologies
Bruce Tobin PhD (Washington), Adjunct assistant professor	Expressive therapies Child abuse and trauma Effects of television on child development Issues in inter-cultural counselling in First Nations communities
Kenneth Tupper PhD (UBC), Adjunct assistant professor	Public Health Health policy Critical discourse analysis History and philosophy of science Drug education Psychedelic studies Ayahuasca studies
Steve Van Bockern EdD (South Dakota), Adjunct professor	Youth placed at risk Strength-based classroom discipline Personal and professional development Best practice teaching and school leadership Emotional intelligence Resiliency
Emily Vargas-Baron PhD (Stanford), Adjunct associate professor	National-level policy planning for integrated early child development Children's needs and responsive programs in crisis and post-crisis nations Educational policy planning and systems development Systems for planning, coordinating, and evaluating national-level integrated early child development systems Early child development training systems, curriculum, and materials development Parent education systems
Angela Veale PhD (Cork), Adjunct assistant professor	Transnational migration Social reintegration of child soldiers Refugee and asylum-seeking children and youth Fostering resilience in children and youth War-affected children and youth