Faculty Listing
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Gordon Asmundson
Professor and Head
OC, SOM, FRSC, FCAHS, Registered Doctoral Psychologist; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, and Clinical Psychology Review
Office: AH 345.1
E-mail: gordon.asmundson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-337-2415
Website: http://www.aibl.ca
Research interests
- Anxiety Disorders
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Health anxiety and illness behaviour
- Chronic pain (e.g., fear of pain, assessment)
- Psychopathology
- Psychology of Pandemics and Climate Change
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Shadi Beshai
Associate Professor
Office: AH 335
E-mail: Shadi.Beshai@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4026
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.
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Kaila Bruer
Assistant Professor (Luther College); Experimental and Applied Psychology Graduate Program Chair
Ph.D (University of Regina)
Office: LC 223
E-mail: Kaila.Bruer@uregina.ca
Website: https://uregina.ca/~bruer20k/
Research interests
- children as witnesses
- children’s honesty
- recognition and recall memory
- eyewitness identification
- reliability of witness testimony
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Nicholas Carleton
Professor
Ph.D (University of Regina)
Office: AH 351
E-mail: Nick.Carleton@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-337-2287
Website: https://www.cipsrt-icrtsp.ca/
Research interests
- Anxiety Disorders
- First Responders and Other Public Safety Personnel
- Potentially Psychologically Traumatic Events
- Traumatic Stress
- Fundamental Cognitions
- Psychometrics and Statistics
- Transdiagnostics
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Natasha Gallant
Assistant Professor
Ph.D (University of Regina)
Office: AH 335
E-mail: Natasha.Gallant@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4219
Website: https://www.arcresearch.ca/
Research interests
- the influence of psychosocial factors in the experience of chronic diseases
- the role of adversity & resilience in the aging process
- the development of policy recommendations aimed at improving the lived experiences of aging populations
- psychological assessments and interventions for adults living with chronic diseases or acute illnesses
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Jennifer Gordon
Associate Professor; Director, Women's Mental Health Research Unit; CIHR Canada Research Chair in Women's Mental Health; SHRF Patient-Oriented Research Leader
Ph.D (McGill University)
Office: AH 334
E-mail: Jennifer.Gordon@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4389
Website: https://www.wmhresearch.ca/
Research interests
- women's mental health
- premenstrual syndrome
- postpartum depression
- infertility
- perimenopausal depression
- effects of female reproductive hormones on mood
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Heather Hadjistavropoulos
Professor
Ph.D (University of British Columbia)
Office: AH 332
E-mail: heather.hadjistavropoulos@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5133
Website: https://www.wellbeinginnovationlab.ca/
Research interests
- cognitive behaviour therapy
- digital mental health
- anxiety
- depression
- trauma
- health anxiety
- chronic pain
- chronic health conditions
- alcohol misuse
- clinical supervision and training
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Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
Professor; Research Chair in Aging and Health; Registered Doctoral Psychologist
Office: AH 345.3
E-mail: hadjistt@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4457
Website: https://www2.uregina.ca/hpl
Research interests
- Health Psychology
- Pain
- Aging
- Fear and Anxiety in Older Persons
- Professional Ethics and Standards
- Clinical Psychology
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Lynn Loutzenhiser
Professor
Office: AH 352
E-mail: lynn.loutzenhiser@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4078
Website: http://uregina.ca/~loutzlyn/
Research interests
- transition to parenthood
- infant sleep
- fatigue
- autism spectrum disorders
- father involvement in families
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Richard MacLennan
Professor
Office: AH 328
E-mail: richard.maclennan@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4157
Research interests
- Psychometrics and statistics.
- Traditional trait approaches to psychology including: personality, intelligence, and creativity.
- Applied psychology including: industrial-organizational psychology, aviation psychology, military psychology, police psychology, and computer applications in psychology.
- Editor: Canadian Journal of Police and Security Services.
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Chris Oriet
Professor; Associate Dean, Planning and Programs, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
Ph.D (Waterloo)
Office: AH 350.3
E-mail: chris.oriet@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4193
Website: https://www.cs.uregina.ca/Research/rice.html
Research interests
- Attentional limitations in human information processing
- Effects of attention and experience on perception
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Tom Phenix
Associate Professor; Dean (Campion College)
Ph.D; MA (University of Saskatchewan); BA Hons (University of Regina)
Office: CM 408
E-mail: tom.phenix@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1257
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-tom-phenix/
Research interests
- mathematical cognition
- arithmetic knowledge representation
- memory retrieval processes
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Katherine Robinson
Professor (Campion College); Experimental and Applied Psychology Graduate Program Coordinator
Office: CM 511
E-mail: katherine.robinson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1248
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-katherine-robinson/
Research interests
- Cognitive development with special emphases on the development of conceptual and strategic understanding in arithmetic in both children and adults.
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Sarah Sangster
Assistant Professor, Ph.D (University of Saskatchewan)
Acting Undergraduate Coordinator
Office: AH 340
E-mail: sarah.sangster@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-337-2911
Research interests
- experiences in the reproductive health care system
- informed reproductive decision making in the contexts of fertility control and infertility
- prenatal screening and diagnostic testing
- pregnancy and birth
- pregnancy termination
- transition to parenting
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Donald Sharpe
Professor
Office: AH 341
E-mail: sharped@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4312
Research interests
- applications of quantitative approaches (e.g. meta-analysis; structural equation modeling)
- research methodology.
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Austen Smith
Assistant Professor
Office: AH 339
E-mail: austen.smith@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4297
Research interests
- visuospatial attention
- cerebral lateralization
- aesthetics and art
- driving and navigation
- perceptual asymmetries
- multisensory integration
- eye tracking
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Laurie Sykes Tottenham
Associate Professor
Office: AH 338
E-mail: laurie.sykestottenham@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4194
Website: http://www2.uregina.ca/bnr-spit-labs/
Research interests
- neuropsychological basis of individual differences in cognitive and emotion processing, with particular emphasis on stress and sex hormone effects
- functional lateralization
- behavioural testing and salivary and urinary enzyme immunoassays (conducted on-site, to assess circulating hormone concentrations)
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Kristi Wright
Professor; Director of Clinical Training
Office: AH 325
E-mail: kristi.wright@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4180
Current classes
PSYC 101 & PSYC 832
Research interests
- Childhood psychopathology
- Health anxiety
- Preoperative anxiety
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Susan Yamamoto
Assistant Professor (Campion College)
Ph.D; MA (Carleton University); BA Hons (University of Manitoba)
Office: CM 402
E-mail: susan.yamamoto@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-586-4242
Website: https://www.nellab.info
Research interests
- jury decision-making
- the insanity defence
- diversity in the courtroom
- utilitarian and retributive punishment orientation
- scale development
- mixed methodology
Sarah Zanette
Assistant Professor (Luther College)
Office: LC 227
E-mail: Sarah.Zanette@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-206-2100
Website: http://www.casprlab.ca
Research interests
- Childhood deception (i.e., lying and cheating)
- Lie-detection
- Parenting by lying
- Childhood behaviour problems
- Moral development