Research Experts

Research Expert	Keywords	Area(s)	Availability
Paul Alexandre	Geology Geochemistry Mineralogy Geochronology Economic Geology Mineral Exploration	Geology	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Jonathan A. Allan	Circumcision Vasectomy Male Infertility Masculinity Sexuality Nudism Censorship Research Ethics Romance Novels	Men and Masculinities; Cultural Studies	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Aloysius Anyichie	Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) Student Engagement and Motivation Culturally Diverse and International Learners Educator Professional Development Instructional Design for Diverse Leraning Environments Researcher - Practitioner Partnerships Case Study and Mixed Methods Research	Educational Psychology	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Olayinka Bolaji	Educational Leadership Organizational Culture Educational Administration & Management Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Student Transitions and Support Systems International Education	Educational Leadership	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Kathryn Chachula	Student experiences of psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress in health care Incivility and bullying in health care Licensed Practical Nurses experiences of undergraduate nursing education Simulation and simulated learning environments Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Vicarious Trauma, PTSD Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory (Glaser & Charmaz), Phenomenology (Van Manen), Thematic Analysis (Braun & Clarke) Quantitatve (Compare Means, Correlation, Regression Analyses) & Mixed Method Approaches Concept Analysis (Walker & Avant) & Systematic Reviews (Joanna Briggs Institute)	Teaching and Learning in Nursing Education	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Matteo Di Muro		Education Curriculum & Pedagogy	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Prof. Kerry DuWors	Music Performance Violin Chamber Music Strings Music Research Contemporary Music Classical Music Applied Music Collaboration String Pedagogy String Literature	Music	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Scott Forbes	exercise nutrition physiology creatine	Exercise Physiology and Sport Nutrition	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Domenique Gadsden	Inclusion Learning Disabilities Disabilities Higher Education Universal Design for Learning Pedagogy and Practice	Inclusive Pedagogy and Practice, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Differentiated Instruction (DI), Learning Disabilities (LDs), Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), Higher Education, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Lived Experience of Disability(ies), Self-Determination, Learning Disabilities	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Marika Galea	Jazz Popular Music Inclusive Music Notation Interdisciplinary Collaboration Recording Contemporary Music Music Entrepreneurship Composition Music Performance Music Composition Leadership	Music - Jazz and Contemporary Popular Music	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Joan Garbutt	allyship ally develop decolonization writing centres academic writing scholarly writing open educational resources (OER)	Ally Development and Decolonizing Writing Centres	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
David R. Greenwood			✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Rachel Herron	Rural Mental Health Aging Care and Caregiving Community-Based Research Health Geography	Geography & Environment	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Emily Holland	search and recovery of human remains residential schools and unmarked graves taphonomy and time since death methods of skeletal analysis juvenile skeletal remains growth and development	Forensic Anthropology	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Chris Hunt	international relations strategic studies war military operations hybrid warfare grey zone conflict	International Relations and Strategic Studies	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Dominique Hétu	Women's writing Ethics of care Ordinary ethics Narratives of vulnerability	French and Francophone studies; Comparative literature; Contemporary literature;	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Candy Jones	rural education mathematics education self-study of teacher education practices teacher identity menopause and leadership recruitment and retention of rural teachers community-based teacher education programs rural identity climate change education	rural education	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Jacqueline Kirk	Educational Leadership Building Inclusive Communities Caring and Empathetic Leadership Duo-Ethnography Caring and Empathetic Communities Teacher Education Technology in Education School Division Amalgamation Professional Development in Education Roles of the School Principal Leaders' Transitions Rural Education Rural Education Leadership	Leadership in Education, Caring and Empathetic Leadership, School Division Amalgamation, Duo-Ethnography Methodology	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Alexander Koiter	Soil science Water quality Agriculture Soil erosion Water management Sediment Nutrients Flooding Soil management	Watershed science	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Michelle Lam	Qualitative Equity Rural Anti-Racism	community education, rural migration, identity, anti-racism, and social justice	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Christophe LeMoine	Microplastics Mitochondria Plastivores Plastic biodegradation Metabolic plasticity Fish physiology Waxworm	Comparative Metabolic Physiology	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Roberto Limongi	Neuroscience and Education Precision Education Cognitive Neuroscience Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Theoretical Neurobiology	Neuro-computational Signatures of the Effect of Writing on Conceptual Organization	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Mark MacDougall	Palaeontology Evolution Palaeozoic Carboniferous Permian early tetrapod early amniote early reptile	Vertebrate Palaeontology	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Barry Madison	Ecotoxicology Animal Physiology Stress Physiology Aquatic Ecosystem Health Contaminants Water Quality eDNA Aquaculture & Fisheries Scientific Policy	Environmental Animal Physiology & Toxicology	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Mousumi Majumder	Breast Cancer Biomarker Micro RNA (miRNA) Tumor Microenvironment Oxidative Stress EP4 Antagonist Secretome Angiogenesis	Cancer	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Christopher Malcolm	wildlife wildlife management human dimensions of wildlife recreation protected areas national parks ecotourism tourism wildlife viewing	human dimensions of wildlife and recreation	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Alison Marshall	Religion and migration Chinatown Chinese Canadian History Filipino Canadian History The KMT (Guomindang) in Canada Dr. Sun Yatsen in Canada Chinese religion Filipino religion Popular or everyday religion Islam on the Canadian Prairies Religion and the Built Environment Ecstatic religious experience Drug-induced spirituality/religion Spirit mediumship and healing	Religion and Migration, Chinatown, Chinese Canadian History, Asian Religion, Spiritual and religious experience	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Jennifer Mateer	Environmental dispossession Environmental governance Community resilience Youth agency Outdoor education Nature-based play Prefigurative politics Feminist political ecology Settler-colonial landscapes Land-based pedagogy Two-Eyed Seeing Community-based participatory research (CBPR)	Participatory and Community-Engaged Geographies; Political Ecology and Environmental Justice; Food Systems, Food Sovereignty, and Urban/Rural Food Planning; Youth, Education, and Outdoor / Land-Based Learning; Urban, Cultural, and Social Geographies; Feminist and Intersectional Geographies; Settler Colonialism and Critical Legal Geographies	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Eftihia Mihelakis	Narratives of Rural Mental Health Mad Women/Mad Girl Studies Embodiment History of Women's Health and Sexuality Comtemporary Literature Desertification Narrratives and Marginalized Experiences Politics of Language (intersection of cultural and political issues)	Literary Studies; Health Humanities; Research-Creation; Feminist Theory	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Tom Mitchell	archives Winnipeg General Strike labour history commissions of inquiry social history, immigration crime, class, gender Soviet espionage in Canada history of education historical geography eastern prairies	Canadian Social, Labour, Legal, Security and Intelligence History	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Nancy Newall	gerontology older adults social connection loneliness social isolation age-friendly	Gerontology; Developmental Psychology	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Sheila Novek	Dementia studies Long-term care Family Caregiving Inclusive approaches to dementia research Critical qualitative health research	Gerontology	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Doug Ramsey	rural tourism agricultural diversification community well-being	Rural and Community Development	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Pamela Rutherford	conservation biology amphibian reptile animal behaviour	conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Javad Sadeghi	Microbiome Experimental evolution Plant-microbiome interactions	Microbial Ecology & Evolution	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Deanna Smid	Bees Early modern music Shakespeare early modern literature bees as literary symbol science fiction little ice age beekeeping in Manitoba emblem literature	Early modern English literature, bees as literary symbol	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Joe Stouffer	early literacy Reading Recovery literacy intervention English Language Arts reading wars	early literacy	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Andrea Thomson	Psychiatric nursing and nursing education Accommodations and accessibility Acute care psychiatric nursing	Mental health	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Mostafa Torabi	Social media monitoring Consumer behavior Online reviews Customer satisfaction Business strategy	Business Administration	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Angela Voutier	inclusive education school leadership social justice leadership diversity education mentorship programs school development planning	Inclusive School Leadership	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Candice Waddell-Henowitch	Mental Illness Mental Health Trauma Intergenerational Trauma Sexual Violence Psychiatric Nursing Practice Educating Psychiatric Nurses Indigenous Men Wellness Rural Mental Health Rural Mental Health Practitioners	Qualitative Research; Feminist Research; Trauma-informed Research; Mental Health; Sexual Violence; Trauma	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Dr. Ellen Watson	epistemic beliefs science education physics education	Science Education	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Leanne Zacharias	interdisciplinary performance site-specific cross-genre music creation and performance community engagement contemporary performance practice contemporary music performance curation environmental engagement collaboration	Cello, Performance	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration
Wendy Zander	Conducting Curriculum Repertoire Instrumental Music Education Techniques Methods Corporon Recording	Music Education	✓ Media inquiries ✓ Collaboration

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