Maria Rogers
Lab Director
| Degrees: | Ph.D. School and Clinical Child Psychology (University of Toronto) |
| Email: | maria.rogers@carleton.ca |
| Office: | 214F SSRB, Social Sciences Research Building Lab: 714, Dunton Tower |
Dr. Maria Rogers is the Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health and Well-being as well as an Associate Professor of Psychology at Carleton University. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Faculty of Education and School of Psychology, and an affiliate researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Dr. Rogers completed her Ph.D. in School and Clinical Child psychology at the University of Toronto and postdoctoral fellowships at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and McGill University.
Dr. Rogers’ research interests include examining the mental health and well-being of children and youth, with a focus on learning and school-related factors, specifically among neurodiverse children and adolescents. Dr. Rogers’ current research projects in her lab focus on chronic school absenteeism, the ramifications of COVID-19 on children and adolescents with ADHD and their families, and parental involvement in the education among children with ADHD.
Dr. Rogers is of mixed Inuit-Settler identity. She belongs to the Inuit families of upper Lake Melville to the central coast of Labrador (St. Michael’s Bay) and the Irish-descended families of St. Mary’s Bay, Newfoundland. Dr. Rogers is a Registered Clinical Psychologist (children, families, adults) with the College of Psychologists of Ontario and the Ordre des Psychologues du Québec and serves the Ottawa-Gatineau region. She works clinically at the Child, Adolescent, Family Centre of Ottawa and in various Indigenous communities, both on and off reserve. Dr. Rogers was raised in Newfoundland (Ktaqmkuk) and currently lives in Ottawa.