Helene Berman
MSc - Parent-Child Nursing (Michigan), PhD (Wayne State)
Associate Dean (Research) - Faculty of Health Sciences
Professor - Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
Offices: Room 200T - Health Sciences Building
Room H30 - Health Sciences Addition
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 88157
Research Interests
- Violence in the lives of girls and young women
- Experience of uprooting, displacement and health in the lives of homeless girls, Aboriginal girls and newcomer girls in Ontario
- The transition to motherhood among women who have experienced past trauma
- Systemic and structural violence and the intersections among race, gender, class and health
Research Affiliations
- Centre for Research and Education on Violence against Women and Children
- Child Health Research Institute
Teaching Areas
- Philosophy of Nursing Science
- Interpretive and Critical Research Methodologies
- Theoretical Foundations of Health Promotion in Nursing
Graduate Student Supervision
- Master's
- PhD
Students Currently Under Supervision
Supervisor
- Edmunds, Kathryn Ann (PhD) - Uprootedness and Health of Women Seasonal Agricultural Workers: A Critical Ethnography
- Caxaj, Claudia Susana (PhD)- Violence and Resistance: A Global Analysis of the Health of Mining-Affected Indigenous Communities
- Hall, Jodi (PhD) - Health and Rehabilitation Sciences - Embodied knowledges, discursive performances and pelvic teaching: A critical ethnographic study
- Hussain, Yasmin (Master’s) - Health and Rehabilitation Sciences - Social strengths and resilience among girls: Creating safe spaces for research, action, and change
Co-Supervisor
- Murkin, Tatiana (Master’s) - Health and Rehabilitation Sciences - Resilience as Health Promotion in Action: A grounded theory study of post-secondary students who grew up amid violence against women.
Thesis Advisory Committee Member
- Burnett, Camille Joy Rhodell (PhD)
- St-Amant, Oona Marie (PhD)




