PhotoMarilyn Evans

BScN (McMaster); MN, PhD (Alberta)

Assistant Professor
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing

Office: Room H35 - Health Sciences Addition
Office Hours: Monday: 1-4 pm; Wednesday: 9 am - noon; or by appointment
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 81420

mevans26@uwo.ca


Research Interests

  • Issues related to women, child and family health and health promotion including:
  • Reproductive health
  • Ethical decision making
  • Community health
  • Diabetes prevention

Research Affiliations

Teaching Areas

  • Community and family health
  • Philosophy of nursing and nursing science development

Graduate Student Supervision

  • Master's
  • PhD

Students Currently Under Supervision

Supervisor

  • Giannotti, Natalie (PhD) - Social Support and Motherhood
  • Hassan, Heba (PhD) – Women’s Long Term Life Experience after pregnancy Termination for Fetal Abnormality: Interpretative Phenomenological Study
  • Hols,Marijke Yolanda (PhD) - Gendering of Cardiovascular Health:  Lived Experiences of Postmenopausal Women in Rural Southwestern Ontario
  • Elford, Lauren (MScN) - The meaning of having an infant with special needs from rural mothers' perspectives
  • Molloy, Jennifer (MScN) - Moral Distress of Registered Nurses Involved in the Resuscitation of Extremely Premature Infants

Thesis Advisory Committee Member

  • Allen, Dianne (PhD-Nursing) -  Interprofessional collaboration and role clarification
  • Heard, Kristin (MScN) – Online Support for Women with Gestational Diabetes
  • Leone, Diana (MScN)
  • Meston, C. (PhD-Speech & Language) Adolescents coping with hearing loss: A constructivist grounded theory.
  • Bowen-Smith, N. (Master’s, Health & Rehab Sciences) Untitled
  • Ashley, J. (Master’s Medicine) Relational autonomy: Pregnant women and environmental risk.
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