PhotoSusan Ray

BScN (Toronto), MScN (Western), NP (Western), PhD (Alberta)

Associate Professor
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing

Office: Room H32 - Health Sciences Addition
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 6576

slray@uwo.ca


Research Interests

  • Psychological trauma on contemporary peacekeepers and their families
  • Collective Violence among immigrant/refugee population and survivors of natural disasters
  • Efficacy of interventions for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other related morbidity
  • Male survivors of sexual abuse/incest
  • Homelessness among Canadian and Allied Forces Veterans
  • Transitioning from Military to Civilian Life

Research Affiliations

  • Lawson Health Research Institute - Associate Scientist
  • Canadian Institute for Military and Veterans Health Research
  • Adjunct Associate Professor - Queen's University

Teaching Areas

  • N9600 - Issues in Advanced Practice Nursing
  • N9661 - Foundations of Nursing Science
  • N9663- Interpretive and Critical  Research Methodologies
  • N9604- Violence and Health
  • N2257- Healing and Episodic Health Challenges

Graduate Student Supervision

  • Master's
  • PhD

Students Currently Under Supervision

Supervisor

  • Leone, Diana (MScN) - Lived Experience of anxiety among adolescents during high school
  • Haines, Karen (MScN)  

Co-Supervisor

  • Murkin, Tatiana (PhD) – 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

  • Caxaj, Claudia Susana (PhD)         
  • Loft, Maureen Anne (PhD)           
  • Plunkett, Robyn (PhD)
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