Andrew Johnson, PhD

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs
and Associate Professor

Room 200C, HSB
519 661-2111 x86692
ajohnson@uwo.ca
Scholarly Activities
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Education

  • BA Hons, MA, PhD (Western University)

Graduate Program Supervision

  • Health and Rehabilitation Sciences MSc | PhD

  • Health and Information Sciences MHIS | PhD

Research In Profile

I completed my PhD in Measurement Psychology in 2002, and I am currently appointed to the School of Health Studies.  My early research focus was on information processing speed, particularly as it relates to Parkinson’s disease, and I have always had an interest in diagnostic technology (both psychometric and chronometric). Over time this facilitated a drift in my research interests towards mild traumatic brain injury and concussion.  My current research interests primarily relate to psychosocial features of concussion and Parkinson’s disease.  I have also taught statistics and research methodology at the graduate and undergraduate level for more than 20 years.  This teaching focus has led me to be involved in a wide variety of research projects over the years, which has afforded me with opportunities to acquire experience in an array of qualitative and quantitative analytic techniques.  Finally, I have been heavily invested in academic leadership for approximately 10 years: first as the Chair of the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences program (2012 to 2016), then as the Undergraduate Chair of the School of Health Studies (2017 to 2019), then as the Acting Director of the School of Health Studies (2020 to 2021), and currently as the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs (2021 to present).  This has led me to develop research interests related to those roles (still largely aspirational), including individual differences in help-seeking behaviours.

Featured Publications and Projects

Statistics

  • Bowerman, B.L., Schermer, J.A., Johnson, A.M., O’Connell, R.T., & Murphree, E.S. (2014). Business Statistics in Practice. Toronto, ON: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
  • Robinson, M.S., Johnson, A.M., Walton, D., MacDermid, J. (2019). A comparison on the polytomous rasch analysis output of RUMM2030 and R (ltm/eRm/TAM/lordif). BMC Medical Research Methodology, 19(36). DOI: 10.1186/12874-019-0680-5.

Methodology

  • Bassi, H., Lee, C., Misener, L., Johnson, A.M. (2020). Exploring the characteristics of crowdsourcing: An online observational study. Journal of Information Science, 46(3), 291-312. DOI: 10.1177/0165551519828626.
  • Bassi, H., Misener, L., Johnson, A.M. (2020). Crowdsourcing for research: Perspectives from a Delphi Panel. Sage Open, 10(4), 2158244020980751. DOI: 10.1177/2158244020980751.

Parkinson's Disease

  • Reid, H.A., Holmes, J.D., Laliberte Rudman, D., Johnson, A.M. (in press). Representing informal caregivers of older adults in occupation-focused research: A critical interpretive synthesis. Journal of Occupational Science

Caregiver Stress

  • Hamad, E.O., AlHadi, A.N., Tremblay, P.F., Savundranayagam, M.Y., Kinsella, E.A., Holmes, J.D., Lee, C.J., & Johnson, A.M. (2018). Reconstruction of a caregiver burden scale: Exploratory and content analyses to identify culturally sensitive items in Saudi Arabia. Canadian Journal on Aging, 37(2), 1-16. DOI: 10.1017/S071498081800003X

Concussion

  • Robinson, M., Johnson, A.M., Fischer, L.K., & MacKenzie, H.M. (2022). Two symptoms to triage acute concussions: Using decision tree modeling to predict prolonged recovery following concussion. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 101(2), 135-138. DOI: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000001754/

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Current Grants and Research Projects

  • PI: L Alvarez (2021-2024). #dontdrivehigh: Establishing Youth’s Risk Profiles for Driving Under the Influence of Cannabis. CIHR. $255,000.
  • PI: PA Tucker (2019-2023). The impact of an e-Learning physical activity module on Early Childhood Education candidates’ Self-Efficacy and Knowledge: The ECE-SSE Study. SSHRC. $303,509.

Featured Graduate Student Projects

An exploration of the psychosocial consequences of return-to-play and return-to-learn guidelines among adolescents with mild traumatic brain injury.

  • Tichenoff, A. (2020). PhD, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences


Factors that contribute to concussion reporting among CFL players: A grounded theory study.

  • Stephenson, D. (2018). PhD, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences


An examination of the key characteristics of crowdsourcing as a research method.

  • Bassi, H. (2017). PhD, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences


A cross-cultural exploration of caregiver stress among caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Hamad, E. (2017). PhD, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences


Enhancing assessment of occupational competency in dementia care: Examination of the cognitive competency test.

  • Zur, B. (2011). PhD, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Visit Scholarship@Western for a list of completed student theses and dissertations in the repository.

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