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Adjuncts, Associates, and Sessionals

Adjunct Professors

Dr. Shadi Beshai

Research Interests

  • major depression (both episodic and recurrent)
  • adult Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • moderators (e.g., culture and diversity factors)
  • mediators (e.g., cognition) of outcome in evidence-based psychotherapy for adults.
  • areas of adult Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • evidence-based transdiagnostic treatment for anxiety and depression
  • adult clinical assessment.
Dr. Bridget Klest

Research Interests

  • interrelations among trauma/negative event exposure
  • social context (including interpersonal relationships and institutional affiliations of perpetrators)
  • well-being
  • institutional responses to trauma exposure
  • negative healthcare experiences
  • overt discrimination
  • microaggressions
Dr. Jeff Loucks

Research Interests

  • development of social cognition
  • infant, child, and adult action perception
  • infant social cognition
  • relation between motor experience and action understanding.
Dr. Mamata Pandey

Research Scientist (Saskatchewan Health Authority)

Research Interests

  • Attention and decision-making
  • Indigenous Health
  • Immigrant and refugee health
  • Health care access and utilization
  • Models of care in health care setting
  • Health program evaluation
Dr. Gordon Pennycook

Adjunct Professor (Cornell University)

Website: https://gordonpennycook.com/

Research Interests

  • reasoning and decision making
  • metacognition
  • misinformation
  • beliefs
Dr. Heather Price

Adjunct Professor (Thompson Rivers University)
Ph.D (Simon Fraser University)

Research Interests

  • Children as witnesses
  • Autobiographical and event memory
  • Effects of stress/emotional arousal on memory
  • Forensic interviewing
Dr. William Smythe

Adjunct Professor (University of Regina)

E-mail: William.Smythe@uregina.ca

Research Interests

  • Theoretical psychology.
  • Narrative and Discursive Psychology
  • Research Ethics
Dr. Robert Brown

Adjunt Professor (University of Regina)

Email: Robert.Brown@uregina.ca

Research Interests

  • Molecular mechanisms of plasticity
  • Molecular mechanisms of learning
  • The development of addictive behaviors
Dr. Michelle McCarron

Adjunct Professor (University of Regina)

Email: Michelle.McCarron@uregina.ca

Research Interests

  • Public Safety Personnel (PSP) mental health
  • Moral injury in front line healthcare workers and PSP
  • Qualitative research methodology
  • Applied health research
  • Research ethics
  • Bioethics
Dr. Gregory Kratzig

Adjunct Professor (University of Regina)

Email: greg.kratzig@uregina.ca

Research Interests

  • Police training
  • Skill acquisition and retention
  • Role of simulation in training
  • Stress and decision-making
Dr. Jennifer McConnell-Nzunga

Adjunct Professor (University of Victoria)

Email: jsmcconnell112@gmail.com

Research Interests

  • Obesity
  • Population Health
  • Physical Activity
Dr. Sandeep Mishra

Adjunct Professor (University of Lethbridge)

Email: sandeep.mishra@uregina.ca

Research Interests

  • Judgement and decision-making
  • Rick and uncertainty
  • Competition and social comparison
Dr. Lloyd Robertson

Adjunct Professor

Email: lloyd.robertson@uregina.ca

Research Interests

  • Study of the self as a largely autobiographical structure composed of units of culture
  • Self in collectivist and individualist cultures
  • The aboriginal self
  • Self as influenced by education and prior learning assessment
Dr. Katherine Owens

Adjunct Professor (University of Regina)

Email: katherine@theowensgroup.ca

Associates

Kim Dorsch

Associate Member; Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Sport Psychology

Office: Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport Room 164.12
E-mail: Kim.Dorsch@uregina.ca 
Phone: 306-585-4742

Research Interests

  • sport psychology
  • health psychology
  • athletic performance; officiating performance
  • perceptual-cognitive training
  • group dynamics in sport
Jill Price

Research Associate (University of Regina)
Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment PSPNET | PSPNET Families

E-mail: Jill.Price@uregina.ca
Website: https://www.cipsrt-icrtsp.ca/en/profile/jill-price/team/149

Research Interests

  • first responders and other public safety personnel
  • mental health programs and services
  • internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy
  • peer support
Dr. Erica Carleton

Associate Member (University of Regina)

E-mail: erica.carleton@uregina.ca

Research Interests

  • Leadership
  • Women in leadership
  • Well-being
  • Sleep
  • Mindfulness

Sessionals

Denee Buchko

E-mail: deneebuchko@gmail.com

Research Interests

  • Fear and aversion
  • Development of fears
  • Cultural contributors to children’s concepts of animals
  • Cognitive development
Taylor Hill

E-mail: taylor_hill@hotmail.com

Research Interests

  • Well-being
  • Community mental health promotion
  • Mental health literacy
  • Character strengths, personal values
Michelle McCarron
Jamie Wallace

E-mail: jamie.wallace@uregina.ca

Research Interests

  • Beliefs about food
  • food choice.
Mickenzie Galan
Dr. Mark Lajoie
Email: Mark.Lajoie@uregina.ca
Louise Castillo
Email: Louise.Castillo@uregina.ca
Brittney Turnanich
Email: brittney.turnanich@uregina.ca
Wayne Schlapkohl
Email: Wayne.Schlapkohl@uregina.ca
Shaelynn Carr
Email: Shaelynn.Carr@uregina.ca