Adjunct research professors refer to retired associate or assistant professors or professors external to the University who demonstrate significant scholarship and activity in research as well as continuing involvement in significant research activities at the University.
Note: Graduate students whose theses are supervised by Adjunct Research Professors must have a co-supervisor who is a Carleton Psychology faculty member with graduate supervision status.
Jo AndersonPh.D. (Waterloo) Jo Anderson is the Research Director of Faunalytics, where she conducts studies on a range of topics for the benefit of animals and animal advocates. Her research interests include interventions and persuasive appeals, humane education, attitudes toward animals, meat reduction, consumer acceptance of cultured meat, and charitable behaviour. Her work focuses on improving non-human lives, including the lives of animals used for food, laboratory testing, and entertainment, as well as companion animals and wild animals. |
Sara Antunes-AlvesPh.D. (McGill) Sara Antunes-Alves is a registered psychologist with specializations in counselling and clinical psychology. She is currently the manager of From Intention to Action (FITA), a 12-week counselling program for Carleton students. Her doctoral research at McGill University focused on psychotherapy process, and has informed ongoing outcome research of the program; she is particularly interested in investigating the predictors of effective therapy. She is also passionate about therapist training and supervision. |
Kelly BabchishinPh.D. (Carleton) Kelly M. Babchishin (Ph.D., Carleton) is a research advisor with Public Safety Canada, an adjunct scientist with the Institute of Mental Health Research, and holds adjunct professorships at the University of Ottawa (School of Psychology) and Carleton University (Department of Psychology). Her research involves identifying causal candidates for the onset of sexual offending behaviours, as well as improving current assessments strategies for sexual offenders. Other research interests include change in sexual offending behaviours across the lifespan, incest, and online sexual offenders. |
Amanda BullockPh.D. (Carleton University) In general, her research is related to personal and interpersonal stressors and protective factors related to children and families’ well-being in different contexts. She is a scientist at the Department of National Defence where she investigates the impact of the Canadian military lifestyle on the well-being of military families. Most recently, she is involved in assessing the efficacy of various deployment-related programs on improving the resiliency of military families during the deployment process. She is also a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science at East China Normal University, where she examines the meaning and implications of social withdrawal on the well-being of Chinese children and adolescents. |
Annick BuchholzPh.D. C. Psych, (Concordia) She is a co-investigator on ‘Research on Eating and Adolescent Lifestyles,’ an Ottawa-based longitudinal study examining shared risk factors between eating disorders and obesity in youth. Her research interests include psychosocial risk factors related to disordered eating and weight regulation in children and youth. |
Julie CaouettePh.D. (McGill) |
Mario CappelliPh.D. (Carleton) Dr. Mario Cappelli is a Clinical Psychologist who for the past 25 years has specialized in working with children, youth, young adults and their families. Dr. Cappelli is the Senior Child and Youth Mental Health Clinician-Scientist at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child & Youth Mental Health. His research focus is to develop and maintain an active program of collaborative research that informs service delivery and system level change in Ontario’s child and youth mental health sector. Dr. Cappelli is currently leading a number of projects that aim to improve service pathways between primary care and community based child and youth mental services. |
Barbara CollinsPh.D. (Ottawa) |
Kimberly CoracePh.D. (York) Research areas: Dr. Corace conducts research in mental health, addictions, stigma, hepatitis C, and health care worker influenza vaccination uptake. She has expertise in health behaviour change, treatment readiness and adherence, and program evaluation. Her work focuses on improving treatment access, uptake, and outcomes for marginalized populations with mental health and substance use co-morbidities and developing collaborative hospital-community models of care. |
Julie DempseyPh.D. (Carleton) |
Neda FareghPh.D. (Carleton) She accepts Masters and Ph.D. students in the following areas: |
Gary GoldfieldPh.D. (Carleton) |
Synthia GuimondPh.D. (McGill) Dr. Guimond is a scientist at The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Guimond strives to further understand and improve cognitive dysfunctions in psychiatric disorders. Some of her recent studies use digital technologies, such as smartphones and virtual reality, to better assess and treat cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Dr. Guimond also aims to investigate the brain mechanisms underpinning cognitive dysfunctions in psychiatric disorders using multimodal brain imaging techniques. |
R. Karl HansonPh.D. (Waterloo) Originally trained as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Hanson was a researcher with Public Safety Canada between 1991 and 2017. His research concerns risk assessment and rehabilitation for individuals in the criminal justice and forensic mental health systems, with a particular focus on sexual offenders. He has a strong interest in the statistical methods used to quantify risk and to evaluate change over time. |
Joanne L. HarblukPh.D. (Western) |
Leslie-Maaike HelmusPh.D. (Carleton) Dr. Maaike conducts research on issues related to predicting offender behaviour (i.e., risk assessment, understanding risk factors) and on how to structure and improve risk assessment decisions and the communication of risk information. Maaike also enjoys conducting meta-analyses and exploring the strengths and weaknesses of different effect size metrics. |
Katherine HendersonPh.D. (York) |
Patrick HillPh.D (University of Notre Dame, IN) My research strives toward addressing three questions important to understanding how to promote health and well-being across the lifespan. First, what is the role of personality and individual differences in predicting health outcomes? Toward this end, my work has focused on identifying the pathways by which personality traits predict health. In turn, my research also examines the mechanisms that underlie personality development, in order to help us understand what leads to adaptive personality changes. Second, what are the benefits associated with presumptively moral or prosocial personality characteristics? For instance, my work has demonstrated that individuals who place greater emphasis on life goals focused on benefiting others tend to report greater personal well-being. In addition, my studies suggest that being dispositionally forgiving or grateful may lead to greater psychological, emotional, and physical health. Third, my research investigates a number of important questions related to whether and how adolescents find a purpose or direction for their lives. For instance, what does having a purpose mean to youth, and what kinds of purposes do youth nominate? In addition, my work has shown that purposeful adolescents tend to fare better across a wide array of psychological and development outcomes. |
Dr. Natalia JaworskaPh.D. (Ottawa) Dr. Jaworska’s research uses clinical electrophysiology (EEG/ERP) and neuroimaging (fMRI/PET) to better understand the brain in the context of mental illness. She and her team utilize these tools to understand the consequences of psychiatric interventions on the brain, and try to use objective ‘brain markers’ in predicting therapy response. Most of her work has centered on understanding brain changes in the context of mood disorders, including in adolescents/young adults. Some of her recent work has examined the effects of stimulation therapies and aerobic exercise on the brain in depressed youth; she is also studying the neural profiles in youth at different risk for addictions. Website: N.Jaworska |
Dr. Natalie JonesPh.D. (Carleton) Dr. Jones’ primary research focus is the development of strengths-based, gender-informed, and culturally-sensitive risk assessment and intervention strategies for justice-involved populations. In particular, she has underscored the importance of primary and secondary prevention with at-risk youth populations, building their repertoire of protective factors to prevent or thwart future criminal justice outcomes. Additional areas of interest include the study of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in catalyzing negative outcomes along the developmental trajectory, and the examination of gender differences in the profiles and treatment needs to domestic violence perpetrators. |
P.J. KleinplatzPh.D. (Ottawa) |
Verner KnottPh.D. (London) |
Jennifer E. C. LeePh.D. (Ottawa) |
Robyn McQuaidPh.D. (Carleton) Biological factors related to mental health, psychosocial determinants of mental health, addiction, intergenerational impacts of trauma |
Jeremy MillsPh.D. (Carleton) |
Damian O’KeefePh.D. (Guelph) Dr. O’Keefe is a Defence Scientist at the Director General Military Personnel Research and Analysis at the Department of National Defence. Dr O’Keefe’s current line of research includes Ethical Leadership, but he also has interest in the area of Occupational Personality and Integrity. |
Laura OoiPh.D. (Carleton) Dr. Ooi’s research is broadly focused on social and emotional adjustment across development. More specifically, her research examines some of the risk and protective factors associated with spending more time alone (e.g., social withdrawal, solitude) from early childhood through to emerging adulthood. In particular, she is interested in examining how temperamental characteristics (e.g., shyness) and maladaptive thought patterns (i.e., cognitive biases) might impact experiences with peers and the development of internalizing problems, such as social anxiety and depression. |
Kathleen Pajer
M.D., M.P.H. Dr. Kathleen Pajer is the Chief of the CHEO Department of Psychiatry and the Chair of the uOttawa Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Pajer’s research has two themes. She has spent most of her career studying the psychoneuroendocrinology of psychopathology in adolescent and young adult women, focusing on the HPA axis. The other topic is child and youth mental healthcare system improvements. She has been funded by the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), and numerous foundations and internal grants. |
William RobertsPh.D. (Simon Fraser University) |
Jordan SchoenherrPh.D. (Carleton) Jordan Richard Schoenherr is an adjunct research professor in the Department of Psychology, Carleton University and ARL-RAP Research Fellow in the Army Cyber Institute and the United States Military Academy. His research interests include learning and metacognition (with applications in medical education, workplace incivility, and social networks), persuasive communication, as well as data and scientific integrity. His current research projects include examining the dissociation of multiple learning and decision-making systems, medical education, and the properties of social organization of science and medicine. |
Michael SetoPh.D. (Queen) |
Chelsea SheahanPh.D. (Carleton) Dr. Sheahan obtained her Ph.D in Psychology from Carleton University in 2018. Currently, Dr. Sheahan is a Research Officer at Correctional Service Canada and an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University. Her research focuses primarily on factors that impact eyewitness memory, specifically in a developmental context. Her secondary research interests focus on juror decision making, wrongful conviction, and criminal justice and corrections research. Dr. Sheahan will co-supervise students who are interested in the following topics: Eyewitness memory, juror decision making, wrongful convictions. |
Tracey SkillingPh.D (Queen’s) Dr. Tracey Skilling is a registered clinical and forensic psychologist specializing in working with children and adolescents. Dr. Skilling’s main area of clinical practice is conducting comprehensive mental health assessments for youth involved with the justice system and her program of research maps onto her clinical practice. She is currently conducting a longitudinal study, now involving more than 700 justice-involved youth as they transition into adulthood, with a specific focus on examining the impact of mental health issues and treatment programming on outcomes for these youth. |
Jennifer E. SuttonPh.D. (Western) Dr. Sutton is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Brescia University College and an Adjunct Research Professor at Western University. Her research investigates spatial cognition, particularly as it relates to navigation in large-scale space, in adults, animals, and children. Her work is funded by NSERC and currently focuses on individual differences in the spatial mental representations individuals create of new environments. In addition, she is interested in how spatial skills are changed by experiences outside the lab, such as in aviation and driving. |
Jennifer A. VeitchPh.D. (Victoria) |
Lisa WalkerPh.D. (Windsor) |
John R. WeekesPh.D. (Ohio) |
Matthew M. YoungPh.D. (Carleton) |