Faculty Members
Faculty members in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing are engaged in impactful research across a number of health-related areas. Click on a faculty member's name to view their full profile and learn more about their research.
Research Supervisors and Interests
Yolanda Babenko-Mould
- Canadian and international involvement in nursing education
- Development of educational resources for use by clinical teachers in Canada and Rwanda
- Internationally-educated nursing students
- Clinical teacher and nursing student empowerment
- Clinical teachers’ use of empowering behaviours
- Nursing students’ self-efficacy for professional practice
- Nursing students’ self-efficacy for computer-mediated learning in online environments
- Civility in nursing education contexts
Deanna Befus
- Health equity and social justice
- Structural violence and women's health
- Chronic pain
- Stress and trauma
- Systems Thinking Methodologies
- Nonpharmacological self-management and integrative wellness
- Critical theoretical perspectives
- Global and public health
- Self-management decision-making
Richard Booth
- Nursing education, teaching with technology, curriculum development
- Health informatics, eHealth, social media in healthcare
- Mental health nursing
- Socio-technical perspectives, actor-network theory, technology evaluation
- Health information technology, information systems
Susana Caxaj
- Global health, including industrial impacts on community and migrant health
- Indigenous health, health equity and cultural safety
- Belonging, inclusion and service access among immigrant populations
- Participatory Action Research
- Social determinants of health and Intersectionality
- Relational and Indigenous ways of Knowing
Lorie Donelle
- Digital Health
- Technology enabled models of health care
- Impact on clients, clinicians, & organizations
- Health and Digital Health Literacy
- Health Promotion
Cheryl Forchuk
- Health promotion
- Issues related to community integration for people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness, including:
- Therapeutic relationships
- Social Support
- Housing/Homelessness
Anna Garnett
- Older adults and their caregivers
- Chronic disease management
- Physical activity and aging
- Interdisciplinary approaches to chronic disease management
- Qualitative and mixed methods
- Self-management, health promotion and social determinants of health
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe
- Women’s health and health inequity across diverse contexts, including rural settings
- Health, social and economic consequences of gender-based violence and trauma
- Development and testing complex (F2F and online) interventions to improve health and quality of life for women with histories of IPV
- Strengthening health care approaches for people living with violence and inequity
- Trauma- and violence-informed care, relational practice and strengths-based models of practice/service delivery (particularly related to community health nursing)
- Measurement of gender-based violence and equity-oriented care
Kim Jackson
- Health Promotion & Caring for Self, Colleagues & Clients
- Episodic Mental Health Illnesses
- Professional Practice in Families
- Child Health and Family Nursing
Abe Oudshoorn
- Homelessness prevention
- Women’s homelessness
- Health promotion
- Refugee housing outcomes
- Qualitative methods
- Participatory action research
- Poverty and health
- Mental health
- Public policy
- Health equity
Fiona Webster
- The sociology of chronic pain and other chronic health conditions
- Critical ethnography and institutional ethnography
- Gender and health
- Health equity and social determinants of health
- Evaluation of complex interventions
Victoria Smye
- Inequities in access to mental health and addictions care
- Indigenous health
- Women and violence and, in particular, interpersonal and structural violence
- Critical theoretical perspectives, including exploration and application of the concepts of cultural safety, relational practice, and intersectionality in nursing and health care more broadly
Penny Tryphonopoulos
- Perinatal mood disorders
- Infant mental health
- Attachment
- Intervention development & testing
