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UVic Research Affiliates

Alexandra Branzan Albu
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering
Research Areas: computer Vision, medical imaging, virtual reality, modelling and simulation.
Phone: 250-721-8681
E-mail: aalbu@ece.uvic.ca
Website:
http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~aalbu/

Cecilia Benoit
Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Areas: the relationship between gender, work and health; midwifery and maternity care; youth in transition to aduthood; health and occupational-based stigmas; injury-prevention; community-based research.
Phone: 250-721-7578
E-mail: cbenoit@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/soci/people/faculty/benoit.php

Elizabeth Borycki
Assistant Professor, Health Information Science
Research Areas: health management, organization and strategy; disease management, respirology and geriatrics; nursing informatics and the effect of technology upon nurses' work; evaluation of the impact of information technology in health care; clinical informatics.
Phone: 250-472-5432
E-mail: emb@uvic.ca
Website: http://hinf.uvic.ca/People/borycki.php

Anne Bruce
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Research Areas: end of life care, nursing services, nursing education, contemplative practices in health care.
Phone: 250-721-6463
E-mail: abruce@uvic.ca
Website: http://nursing.uvic.ca/people/bruce.php

Neena Chappell
Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Areas: caregiving to older adults, care for people with dementia, aging and ethnicity, quality an cost-effectiveness of community-based home and residential care,  the Canadian health care system.
Office: Sedgewick A136
Phone: 250-472-4465
Email: nlc@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/~nlc, http://web.uvic.ca/soci/people/faculty/chappell.php

Brian Christie
Associate Professor, Division of Medical Sciences
Research Areas: effects of exercise on the human brain.
Phone: 250-472-4244
Email: brain64@uvic.ca
Website: http://www.uvic.ca/medsci/faculty/christie.php

Denise Cloutier
Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Research Areas: healthy aging, the continuum of care,  health care reform or restructuring, vulnerable populations (e.g., socially isolated, stroke-affected, palliative, those with dementia and frail older adults), population health approaches to health planning and health promotion; the importance of place in terms of experiences of aging, how small rural and remote communities support healthy aging, mixed methods.
Office: Sedgewick A122
Phone: 250-721-6289
E-mail: dcfisher@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/~dcfisher, http://geography.uvic.ca/people/faculty/cloutier-fisher.php

Maneesha Deckha
Professor, Faculty of Law
Research Areas: bioethics law, property law, animal law, feminist law and administrative law.
Phone: 250-721-8175
E-mail: mdeckha@uvic.ca
Website: http://law.uvic.ca/faculty_staff/faculty_directory/deckha.php

Angela Downey
Associate Professor, Faculty of Business
Research Areas:
health promotion; accounting; finance; and worksite wellness.
Phone: 250-721-6113
E-mail: adowney@uvic.ca
Website: http://www.gustavson.uvic.ca/faculty_staff/faculty/view/152

Elaine Gallagher
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing
Research Areas: gerontology; health promotion; community development; elder abuse; falls among the elderly; and evaluation research.
Office: Sedgewick A112
Phone: 250-721-6368
E-mail: egallagh@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/~egallagh

Michael Hayes
Professor, School of Public Health and Social Policy, Department of Geography and Division of Medical Sciences; the Inaugural Director of Health Education and Research and the Chair of the Health Education and Research Council (HERC)
Research Areas: health education, geographies of health, disabilities, and population health and public policy.
Phone: 250-853-3108
Email: mhayes@uvic.ca
Website: http://geography.uvic.ca/people/faculty/hayes.php

Scott Hofer
Professor Mohr Chair in Adult Development and Aging, Department of Psychology
Research Areas: identification and explanation of individual differences in developmental and aging-related processes and involves analysis of existing longitudinal studies, new data collection efforts using intensive measurement designs, and developments in research methodology focused on measurement and analysis of change.

Office: Sedgewick A118
Phone: 250-721-6576
E-mail: smhofer@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/people/faculty/hofer.php

David Hultsch
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology
Research Areas: cognitive and personality development during adulthood and aging.
Phone: 250-721-6108
E-mail: dfh@uvic.ca

Sandra Hundza
Assistant Professor, School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education
Research Areas: neural control of human movement; neural control of limbs and trunk during walking with aging and after injury (e.g. stroke) and with disease; rehabilitation and assistive devices and technologies related to mobility.

Phone: 250-721-8387
E-mail: shundza@uvic.ca


Michael Hunter
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Areas: theory of statistical inference and multivariate statistical methods.
Phone: 250-721-7530
E-mail: mhunter@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/people/faculty/hunter.php

Eike-Henner Kluge
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Research Areas: biomedical, professional and information ethics.
Phone: 250-721-7519
E-mail: ekluge@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/philosophy/people/kluge/

Karen Kobayashi
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Areas:Kobayashisociology of aging, ethnicity and immigrant status, family dynamics and intergenerational relationships, health and illness, long term care, dementia, and research design.
Phone: 250-721-7574
E-mail: kmkobay@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/soci/people/faculty/kobayashi.php

Valerie Kuehne
Vice President, External Relations
Professor, School of Child and Youth Care
Research Areas: intergenerational caregiving, child development and human development through the life course, and
multidisciplinary practice with children and families.
Phone: 250-472-5477
E-mail: vkuehne@uvic.ca
Website: http://cyc.uvic.ca/facultydirectory/kuehne.php

David Chuenyan Lai
Professor Emeritus of Geography
Research Areas: chinatowns: power structure and leadership, overseas chinese and development of chinatowns, urbanisation and industrialisation of china, and historical geography of china.
E-mail: dclai@uvic.ca

Marjorie MacDonald
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Research Areas: health promotion; community/public health; adolescent health; social and health policy; health program evaluation; advanced nursing practice; primary health care; and qualitative research.
Phone: 250-721-6231
E-mail: marjorie@uvic.ca
Website: http://nursing.uvic.ca/people/macdonald.php

Stuart MacDonald
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Areas: patterns and predictors of cognitive decline in the healthy elderly and developmental transition between primary and secondary aging.
Phone: 250-472-5297
E-mail: smacd@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/people/faculty/macdonald.php

Patricia MacKenzie
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies; Interim Director, School of Social Work
Research Areas: health care, aging, interdisciplinary practice and rural communities.
Phone: 250-721-6228
E-mail: patmack@uvic.ca
Website: http://socialwork.uvic.ca/faculty/indies/patmack.

Michael Masson
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Areas: memory and cognition.
Phone: 250-721-7536
E-mail: mmasson@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/people/faculty/masson.php

Catherine Mateer
Assistant Vice President, Academic Planning
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Areas: cognitive rehabilitation; brain organization for attention, language, memory and praxis; clinical/research studies related to traumatic brain injury, dementia and cerebrovascular disease; electrophysiological and evoked potential correlates of cognitive ability in clinical populations.
Phone: 250-721-7012
E-mail: cmateer@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/people/faculty/mateer.php

Carol McDonald
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Research Areas: the soci-political context of women’s health, in particular the experiences of underserved groups such as older women and lesbian women; feminist hermeneutics and interpretive inquiry.
Phone: 250-472-5280
E-mail: carolmcd@uvic.ca
Website: http://nursing.uvic.ca/people/mcdonald.php

Patrick McGowan
Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Science
Research Areas: investigating implementation of best practices and effectiveness with health education programs for persons experiencing chronic health conditions.
Office: 210 - 4907 Chisholm St, Ladner
Phone: (604) 940-3574
E-mail: mcgowan@dccnet.com
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/~pmcgowan/

Marjorie McIntyre
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Research Areas: theoretical challenges in nursing, as well as feminist and hermeneutic explorations in relation to women’s health issues
Phone: 250-472-5283
E-mail: mcintyre@uvic.ca
Website: http://nursing.uvic.ca/people/mcintyre.php

Jane Milliken
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Research Areas: qualitative and quantitative research; chronic illness; social causes and consequences of illness.
Phone: 250-472-4704
E-mail: jmillike@uvic.ca
Website: http://nursing.uvic.ca/people/milliken.php


Jeannine Moreau
Senior Instructor, School of Nursing
Research Areas: critical discourse analysis; women's health; feminism and postmodernism; nursing education; gerontology and ageism
Phone: 250-721-7959
Email: jmoreau@uvic.ca
Website: http://nursing.uvic.ca/people/moreau.php

Carl Mosk
Professor, Department of Economics
Research Areas: the terms of trade; urbanization in the Pacific Rim; nationalism, regionalism and multilateralism; human development and the biological standard of living; economic geography of the Pacific Northwest: historical and contemporary aspects.
Phone: 250-721-6484
Email: mosk@uvic.ca
Website: http://www.carlmosk.com

Pamela Moss
Professor, Faculty of Human and Social Development
Research Areas: body politics; women with chronic illness; theories of body and embodied theories;  women's health; feminist research methodologies; autobiographical writing; contested illness; disabling subjectivities; alternative healing practices; chronic fatigue syndrome; veterans with PTSD.
Phone: 250-721-6297
E-mail: pamelam@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/spp/people/faculty/pmoss.htm

Margaret J. Penning
Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Areas: social structuring of health and health care as well as in how, within their contexts, people attempt to deal with chronic illness and disability (including their use of self-care practices, informal social supports, and formal service utilization) particularly in later life.
Office: Sedgewick A124
Phone: 250-721-6573
E-mail: mpenning@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/soci/people/faculty/penning.php

Andrea Piccinin
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Areas:
life-span development and developmental research methods.
Phone: 250-853-3861
E-mail: piccinin@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/people/faculty/piccinin.php

Michael Prince
Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Human and Social Development
Research Areas: trends in social policy over the past 25 years and the next generations; federal-provincial relations; aboriginal governance; and policy making in the community.
Phone: 250-721-8049
E-mail: mprince@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/spp/people/faculty/mjprince.htm

Ryan Rhodes
Professor, School of Physical Education
Research Areas: exercise adherence, intervention strategies to promote physical activity, social cognitive theories of exercise behaviour change, personality and exercise behaviour, exercise and quality of life outcome research, and exercise among special populations.
Phone: 250-721-8384
E-mail: rhodes@uvic.ca
Website: http://www.bmed.uvic.ca/about.php#Ryanbio

Deb Rutman
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Human and Social Development and School of Social Work
Research Areas: family and child well-being and services; community development and social planning; caregiving; and adult capacity/guardianship issues.
Phone: 250-721-8202
E-mail: drutman@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/spp/people/beborahrutman.htm

Eric Sager
Professor, Department of History
Research Areas: Canadian labour history and family history.
Phone: 250-721-7381
E-mail: ewsager@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/history/faculty/sager.html

Debra Sheets
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Research Areas: gerontology and geriatric nursing--and in particular sources of resilience as well as meaning in later life and at end of life; healthy aging; family caregivers; evaluation; geriatric nursing education; and end of life care.
Phone: 250-853-3947
E-mail: dsheets@uvic.ca
Website: http://nursing.uvic.ca/people/DebraSheets.php

Ronald Skelton
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Areas: cognitive neuroscience; recovery of function after traumatic brain injury; spatial learning and memory; and
virtual environments.
Phone: 250-721-8711
E-mail: skelton@uvic.ca
Website: http://www.uvic.ca/psyc/people/faculty/skelton.php

Colette Smart
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Areas: understanding the neural mechanisms underlying meditation practice in healthy and clinical populations; neural and neuropsychometric correlates of everyday functioning in older adults.
Phone: 250-853-3997
Email: csmart@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/people/faculty/smart.php

André Smith
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Areas: health and illness; fementia care; health policy; mental illness; qualitative methodologies; aging; and social inequality.
Phone: 250-721-7583
Email: apsmith@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/soci/people/faculty/smith.php

Kelli Stajduhar
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Research Areas: palliative and end of life care; family caregiving; home care; HIV/AIDS; oncology; vulnerable and marginalized populations; gerontology; health services research; qualitative and quantitative research methods; mixed method study design; collaborative, participatory research.
Office: Sedgewick A132
Phone: 250-721-7487
E-mail: kis@uvic.ca
Website:http://www.coag.uvic.ca/eolcare/kelli_stajduhar.htm, http://nursing.uvic.ca/people/stajduhar.php

Peter Stephenson
Professor, Department of Anthropology; Director, School of Environmental Studies
Research Areas: communal societies (Hutterites), planned communities (Netherlands), health care and research methods employed in vulnerable communities (elderly, indigenous peoples, refugees).
Phone: 250-721-7351
E-mail: pstephen@uvic.ca
Website: http://anthropology.uvic.ca/people/faculty/stephenson.php

Holly Tuokko
Director, Centre on Aging
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research Areas: clinical neuropsychology; clinical aging; older driver safety; cognitive impairment including dementia; everyday competence.
Office: Sedgewick A106
Phone: 250-721-6350
E-mail: htuokko@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/people/faculty/tuokko.php

Rebecca Warburton
Associate Professor, School of Public Administration
Research Areas: error reduction and patient safety in health care, evidence-based medicine, evidence-based public policy and healthy public policy, economic evaluation methods, health care technology assessment, population health, socioeconomic determinants of health, child poverty, children in care, impact of medical premiums on access to care, and the importance of public administration of medicare.
Phone: 250-721-8066
E-mail: rnwarbur@uvic.ca
Website: http://www.uvic.ca/hsd/publicadmin/aboutUs/home/facultystaff/warburton.php

Zheng Wu
Director, Population Research Group
Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Areas: demography, family, immigration, aging, health, and quantitative methods.
Phone: 250-721-7576
E-mail: zhengwu@uvic.ca
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/soci/people/faculty/wu.php

Lynne Young
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Research Areas: family health promotion research; heart health; program evaluation; complex health challenges.
Phone: 250-472-5678
E-mail: leyoung@uvic.ca
Website: http://nursing.uvic.ca/people/young.php

E. Paul Zehr
Director, Centre for Biomedical Research
Professor and MSFHR Biomedical Research Scholar, School of Physical Education
Research Areas: neural control of human movement after stroke and spinal cord injury; arm and leg coordination during walking; techniques of neurophysiology, biomechanics, motor behaviour, and exercise physiology.
Phone: 250-721-8379
E-mail: pzehr@uvic.ca
Website:
http://www.zehr.ca/

 

Last updated: March 22, 2012



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