Excellence in Research Award Winners
- Derek Besner (2017)
- Geoffrey Fong (2016)
- Joanne Wood (2015)
Canada Excellence Research Chairs
Sara Hart
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Developmental Science
Research involves:
Examining the role of an individual’s genetic variants in predicting school achievement and intervention response and; understanding how scientists do science, with a particular interest in supporting rigorous and reproducible educational and developmental science.
Research relevance:
This research: will help understand the direct role of environments around children, controlling for genetic predispositions. and; support the data storage and data access needs of scientists working in fields of developmental science related to education
Canada Research Chairs
Dillon Browne
Canada Research Chair in Child and Family Clinical Psychology
Research involves:
Understanding the way in which stressful social contexts influence developmental health by altering the nature of family relationships.
Research relevance:
This research includes the development, evaluation, and dissemination of evidence-based therapeutic and community services for children, youth, and families
Evan Risko
Canada Research Chair in Embodied and Embedded Cognition
Research involves: Investigating how we use our body and physical (and social) environment to help us think and how this coupling ultimately shapes our thinking.
Research relevance: This research will provide a deeper understanding of the embodied and embedded nature of cognition and can inform the development and design of tools to help us think more effectively.
Abigail Scholer
Canada Research Chair in Motivated Social Cognition
Research involves:
Studying self-regulation and self-control in people in order to develop insights about temptations and a number of self-regulation problems.
Research relevance:
This research could lead to the development of interventions to help people resist temptations, make better decisions and live more fulfilling lives.
Previous Canada Research Chairs
James Danckert, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience
Roxane Itier, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroimaging and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
David Moscovitch, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Research