Helene BermanHelene 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

hberman@uwo.ca


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

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)
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