Research
Placement
Students
These students have joined our lab for one school year as part of an undergraduate Research Opportunity Program or OISE's MEd Research Practicum Course.
Research
Volunteers
These lab members volunteer their time to support a variety of on-going research studies happening in our lab.
LaB Director
Our
Team
Todd Cunningham
Todd is a faculty member in the Applied Psychology and Human Development department of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children after earning a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Toronto. His area of expertise is adaptive educational technology, specifically the circumvention of students’ academic weaknesses to help them better attain and retain knowledge.
Our
Team
LaB Director
Todd Cunningham PhD C.Psych
Todd is a faculty member in the Applied Psychology and Human Development department of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children after earning a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Toronto. His area of expertise is adaptive educational technology, specifically the circumvention of students’ academic weaknesses to help them better attain and retain knowledge.
LaB Director
Graduate Students
Bronwyn Lamond MA OCT
Current Program
PhD 2nd Year
School and Clinical Child Psychology
Previous Education
MA in School and Clinical Child Psychology from OISE
MA in Child Study and Education from OISE
BSc. in Honours Specialization Psychology from Western University
Research Interests
Bronwyn's research focuses on student and teacher perceptions of assistive technology. She is particularly interested in the factors that lead students to abandon the use of assistive technology within the classroom.
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Harrison McNaughtan MA
Current Program
PhD 1st Year
School and Clinical Child Psychology
Previous Education
MA in School and Clinical Child Psychology from OISE
MA in Developmental Psychology and Education from OISE
BScH in Psychology from Queen's University
Research Interests
Harrison's research in the past has focused on adolescents and emerging adults with Autism and how they understand romance and signal consent. Moving forward, Harrison's research will focus on validating a hypothesis-driven assessment method for psychological assessments in the context of education.
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Francis Wall MA
Current Program
PhD 1st Year
School and Clinical Child Psychology
Previous Education
MA in School and Clinical Child Psychology from OISE
BScH in Pschology from University of Toronto Scarborough
Research Interests
Francis's research interest centre on the evaluation of best practices and effectiveness of different technologies for students with writing challenges. His current focus is in the area of idea generation software.
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Emily Staffiere BSC
Current Program
MA 2nd Year
School and Clinical Child Psychology
Previous Education
BSc in Psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University
Research Interests
Emily’s research examines the effectiveness of typing interventions on quality of written expression for students with learning disabilities in the area of writing. She is interested in developing an appropriate typing measure that will be used in the evaluation of various keyboarding programs that aim to teach typing skills to students.
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Andrea Zians MEd
Current Program
PhD 2nd Year
Developmental Psychology and Education
Previous Education
MA from OISE
Research Interests
Andrea's research focus is on post-secondary students' usage of assistive technology. She is interested in understanding engagement with technology, and the variables that increase adoption and usage of the technology for both school work and testing.
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Damian Page BA
Current Program
MA 1st Year
School and Clinical Child Psychology
Previous Education
BA Honours in Psychology from the University of Victoria
Research Interests
Damian's research focuses on early detection and intervention of emerging mental health problems in school age children. Specifically, how teacher mental health literacy influences their ability to differentiate between developmentally normal and abnormal behavior in their students.
Contact him at damian.page@mail.utoronto.ca