Faculty and staff directories

Faculty

James Anglin, BA (Car.), MSW (Brit. Col.), PhD (Leicester)

Phone: 250-472-4644

Research interests: Assessment of education and training needs in human services, parent education and parent support, qualitative research approaches, grounded theory, international child and youth care, residential child and youth care, quality assurance in child and family services, child advocacy and youth in care

Sibylle Artz, BA, MA, PhD (UVic)

Phone: 250-721-6472

Email: sartz@uvic.ca

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Research interests: The theory practice relationship in human and social development, the process of reflection in action, at risk children and adolescents, adolescent females’ use of violence, youth violence prevention

Jessica Ball, BA (UBC), MA, MPH, PhD (UC Berkeley)

Phone: 250-472-4128

Email: jball@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Cultural ecologies of child development, Indigenous children and families, early childhood care and development, father involvement, community-based research partnerships, early childhood development intercultural partnerships

Gordon E. Barnes, BSc (Man.), BA (Winn.), MA, PhD (York)

Phone: 250-721-6437

Email: gbarnes@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Substance use, families and child and youth care

Sandrina de Finney, BA, PhD (UVic)

Phone: 250-721-6372

Email: sdefinn@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Processes of racialization and youth identities, Aboriginal, ethnic minority and immigrant youth, youth participation in practice and research, community development and community-based practice

Marie Hoskins, BA (UBC), MEd, PhD (UVic)

Phone: 250-721-7982

Email: mhoskins@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Adolescent girls' development/eating disorders, family counselling, identity issues

Valerie Kuehne, BScN (Alta.), MEd (Loyola), PhD (Northwestern)

Phone: 250-472-5474

Email: vkuehne@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Intergenerational caregiving, child development & human development through the life course, multidisciplinary practice with children and families

Doug Magnuson, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)

Phone: 250-721-6479

Email: dougm@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Use of influence methods and mandated authority, professional judgment and decision-making, use of solution-focused methods in domestic violence cases

Shanne McCaffrey, B.Ed., (U of S) M.A. (Uvic)

Phone: 250-721-7989

Email: smccaffr@uvic.ca

Research interests: Law and human services work, Indigenous psyche in relation to land and territory, Indigenous interests in protected areas

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, BA, MEd (York), PhD (Toronto)

Phone: 250-721-6478

Email: vpacinik@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Diversity in early childhood care and development, social and educational contexts of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Canada, historically and politically embedded discourses of childhood

Alan Pence, BA, MS (Portland St.), PhD (Ore.)

Phone: 250-721-7981

Email: apence@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Early childhood education, care and development (ECCD), child community and social development, Indigenous ECCD, ECCD and international development

Greg Saunders, BA, MA (UVic)

Phone: 250-721-7990

Email: gsaunder@uvic.ca

Research interests: Peer helping/mentoring, professional development, individual and group process training

Daniel G. Scott, BA, MA, PhD (UVic)

Phone: 250-472-4770

Email: dgscott@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Children and adolescent spirituality, spiritual development and the lives of early adolescents

Jennifer H. White, BA (UVic), MA, EdD (UBC)

Phone: 250-721-7986

Email: jhwhite@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Youth suicide prevention, early intervention/mental health promotion, program planning practice, narrative research

Jin-Sun Yoon, BA, MEd (UBC)

Phone: 250-721-6471

Email: jsyoon@uvic.ca

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Research interests: Intersectional diversity training, cultural identity development, racialized settler/Indigenous relations

Emeritus

Dr. Roy Ferguson

PhD (Alberta), Emeritus professor

Email: rferguso@uvic.ca

Children’s health care and child life practice/environmental design
Children with disabilities/special needs and their families
Distance education and educational collaboration

Dr. Frances Ricks

PhD (York), Emeritus professor

Email: fricks@uvic.ca

Ethics in child and youth care
consciousness, presencing and ethical practice

Adjunct/visiting professor

Olatunde Adekola, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Surrey)

Early childhood development (ECD)
ECD operational research and education

Carol Amaratunga, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Guelph)

Health
Women's and family issues

Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, Adjunct assistant professor

EdD (UBC)

Anne Becker, Adjunct associate professor

PhD (Harvard), MD (Harvard)

Cultural mediation of body image
Phenomenology of eating disorders social transition
Risk factors for eating disorders

Nancy Bell, Adjunct associate professor

PhD (Glasgow)

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, Adjunct assistant professor

MSW (British Columbia)

Working with families where neglect is a concern
Outcome measurement in child welfare
Workload measurement
Organizational culture

Judith Bernhard, Adjunct associate professor

PhD (Toronto)

Issues of cultural diversity in human development
Ethnographic study with communities
Schooling for disadvantaged groups
Design and assessment of child care centres, especially with regard to home language maintenance

Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Adjunct associate professor

PhD (Victoria)

Child and youth agency, participation and resiliency
Children's rights
Community youth development
Child youth friendly cities, governance and planning
Environmental action and young people
Child-centered evaluation

Larry Brendtro, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Michigan)

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

Roy Brown, Adjunct professor

PhD (London) Hon. Dr. Caus (Ghent)

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, Adjunct professor

PhD (London)

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, Adjunct associate professor

PhD (Victoria)

Child welfare
Young carers
Community partnerships
Field education and supervision

Margaret Dabor, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Sierra Leone)

Curriculum development
Training and policy in Africa
Focus on early childhood development (ECD)
Girl-child education

Enid Elliot, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Victoria)

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

Judith Evans, Adjunct assistant professor

EdD (Massachusetts)

Cross-cultural child development
Gender and socialization (child rearing practices)
International early childhood care and development (ECCD)
Culturally appropriate early intervention
The role of early childhood programs in poverty reduction
Early childhood policy development
Development of curriculum, standards and certification within an international context

Nigel Fisher, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (McMaster)

International development
Children affected by armed conflict
Public policy
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, Adjunct professor

PhD (Toronto)

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
Schools as settings for health promotion

Thom Garfat, Adjunct professor

PhD (Victoria)

Residential care
CHILD AND YOUTH CARE approach to family work
Foster care
Relational child and youth care practice
Self

Kiaras Gharabaghi, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Dalhousie)

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

Rebecca Gokiert, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Alberta)

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

Nevin Harper, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Minnesota)

Outdoor and adventure-based activity
Children and nature
Experiential teaching and learning
Mixed methods and program evaluation
Leadership

John Hart, Adjunct associate professor

PhD (Southern California)

Gender studies/men's issues
Fathering
Indigenous traditional healing
Advanced training in clinical practices

Elizabeth Jones, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Southern California)

Learning through play
Emergent curriculum
Active learning for adults
Online learning
Peacemaking

Sylvia Kind, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (UBC)

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, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Ottawa)

Child soldiers
Children affected by armed conflict
Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration philosophy of the state genocide and other state pathologies

Kofi Marfo, Adjunct professor

PhD (Alberta)

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, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (UVic)

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

Wayne Mitic, Adjunct assistant professor

EdD (State, NY)

Utilization-focused evaluation as it pertains to health promotion programs and services
Health promotion planning as it relates to chronic disease prevention

Peter Moss, Adjunct associate professor

MA (London)

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

Augustine Bame Nsamenang, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Ibadan, Nigeria)

Esther Oduoluwu, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Ibadan)

Early childhood development (ECD)
Education and literacy

Carmen Rodriguez, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Victoria)

Aboriginal childrearing practices
Aboriginal worldviews
Bilingual education
Identity and child development across cultures
Multicultural approaches to teaching and learning

Shlomo Romi, Adjunct associate professor

PhD (OISE)

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 interventions

Blythe Shepard, Adjunct associate professor

PhD (UVic)

Rural youth
School-based counselling
Families and children living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Training/Supervision of helpers
Narrative methodology

Hans Skott-Myhre, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Minnesota)

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, Adjunct Assistant Professor

PhD (British Columbia)

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

Jo-Anne Stoltz, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Victoria)

Youth addictions
HIV/AIDS
Identity
Conflict resolution
Trauma
Peace psychology

Carol Stuart, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Victoria)

Professional practice standards
Evidence based practice
Youth resilience and youth at risk
Participatory research and qualitative approaches to research

Beth Blue Swadener, Adjunct associate professor

PhD (Wisconsin-Madison)

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

Bruce Tobin, Adjunct assistant professor

PhD (Washington)

Expressive therapies
Child abuse and trauma
Effects of television on child development
Issues in inter-cultural counselling in First Nations communities

Steve Van Bockern, Adjunct professor

EdD (South Dakota)

Youth placed at risk
Strength-based classroom discipline
Personal and professional development
Best practice teaching and school leadership
Emotional intelligence
Resiliency

Emily Vargas-Baron, Adjunct professor

PhD (Stanford)

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 chid development training systems, curriculum, and materials development
Parent education systems