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

Mental health nursing
Mental illness and poverty, housing and homelessness
Transitional discharge model
The use of technology in mental health

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