جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Elizabeth McCallumمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• School Psychology
• Educational Interventions
• Academic and Social/Emotional Outcomes
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Elizabeth McCallum is the Chair of the Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology and a Professor in the APA-accredited Psy.D. and Ph.D. School Psychology Programs at Duquesne University. She holds a Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of Tennessee (2006) and a B.S. in Psychology from Cornell University (2000). Her research focuses on school-based interventions to improve academic and social/emotional outcomes for students, particularly through evidence-based practices and assistive technologies. She has also contributed to the development of guidelines for peer-mediated interventions and instructional accommodations. Her work spans diverse areas such as math fact fluency interventions, LGBTQ+ representation in school psychology literature, and accommodations for students with disabilities. Notable contributions include adapting interventions for virtual learning environments and analyzing the efficacy of assistive technologies like text-to-speech systems. McCallum has authored book chapters on cooperative learning strategies and game-based interventions, emphasizing practical applications in school settings. Her recent articles explore topics such as reducing classroom transition times through music-infused interventions and evaluating the impact of video self-modeling for Black boys in urban schools. She has presented at national conferences, including the National Association of School Psychologists Annual Convention, focusing on timely issues like LGBTQ+ inclusion and disability accommodations.

Emily Slusserمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Cognitive Development
• Numerical Cognition
• Language Acquisition
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Emily Slusser is a Professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Development at San José State University's College of Education and holds a faculty position in the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program. She co-founded the Early Childhood Institute and holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from UC Irvine. Dr. Slusser's research bridges cognitive science and education, focusing on: Development of numerical cognition and mathematical understanding Relationships between language development and mathematical ability Proportional reasoning and spatial estimation Early STEM education foundations Her extensive publication record examines how children develop quantitative concepts, with specific focus on numerical estimation, counting development, and the role of language in mathematical learning. Recent work investigates socioeconomic influences on mathematical development and cognitive models of numerical judgment. She teaches courses including Quantitative Analysis in Education, Cognitive and Language Development, and Child Development. Dr. Slusser serves on multiple editorial boards and has reviewed for NSF grants and academic journals including Child Development and Developmental Psychology.

• Equity in STEAM Education
• Inclusive Pedagogies
• Mathematics Education
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Dr. Robyn Ruttenberg-Rozen is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Ontario Tech University, specializing in inclusive pedagogies within K-16 STEAM education. Her research focuses on equity, innovation, and disrupting deficit perceptions of ability, particularly for underserved, linguistically diverse, and exceptional learners. She has received the 2020 Ontario Tech Early Career Teaching Award and serves as co-newsletter editor for the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG) and editorial board member for the Journal of Educational Informatics . Her teaching spans undergraduate and graduate programs, including courses on mathematics education, STEM integration, and reflective practice. Research Interests: Equity in STEAM education for marginalized populations Interventions for learners with mathematics difficulties Implicit bias awareness in educational spaces Intersectionality in STEM identity formation Online learning equity strategies Teaching Responsibilities: Bachelor of Education: Mathematics Thinking and Doing (Primary/Junior), STEM I & II Master of Education: Principles of Learning, Curriculum Foundations Undergraduate: Reflective Practice/Action Research Awards: Ontario Tech Early Career Teaching Award (2020) Lab/Team: Visit her lab website for collaborative research projects and student involvement opportunities.

• Human Cognition
• Attention
• Memory
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Robert Bruce Milliken is a Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour . As an experimental psychologist, his work focuses on understanding fundamental processes in human cognition, including attention, memory, and cognitive control. His research explores the distinction between conscious and unconscious mental processes, the role of attention in learning and memory, the impact of visual imagery on perception, and how implicit learning shapes attentional control. Education : Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from the University of Waterloo; Postdoctoral Researcher at McMaster University Research Trends : Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals consistent focus on visual attention mechanisms, cognitive control dynamics, and memory encoding processes. Key subfields include attentional blink paradigms, contextual cueing effects, imagery-perception interactions, and the role of perceptual difficulty in memory formation. Teaching Activities : He has taught advanced courses including Human Memory, Senior Honours Thesis, and Cognitive Psychology at McMaster University from 2017-2025, supervising numerous student research projects.

George Whiteheadمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• L2 teacher education
• English as an additional language
• Instructional approaches
• +۲ مورد دیگر

Dr. George Whitehead is a Lecturer in the Language & Literacy Education Department at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in L2 teacher education and context-specific language teaching practices, with research interests spanning English as an additional language, instructional approaches, and decolonizing pedagogies. He holds a B.A. in Linguistics from Simon Fraser University, M.A. in TEFL/TESL from the University of Birmingham, and Ph.D. in Education from the University of Leicester. Prior to UBC, he served as Associate Professor and Chair of the English Language Teaching Department at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea for 16 years. Dr. Whitehead's research explores factors impacting language teacher commitment, pronunciation teaching difficulties, dialogic teaching implementation, and technology-mediated reading comprehension. His work consistently examines how language teaching practices are shaped by cultural contexts and professional development experiences. Publications demonstrate strong methodological diversity including empirical studies on teacher cognition, experimental comparisons of educational media, and critical examinations of teacher education programs across multiple countries including South Korea, Turkey, and Canada.

Amanda Bourgeoisمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Adolescent Development
• Well-being
• Classroom Emotions
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Dr. Amanda Bourgeois is a Research Fellow at the UQ Learning Lab within the School of Education at The University of Queensland, where she also serves as a Casual Academic. Her work focuses on transforming education through science-based approaches to learning, teaching, and training across diverse school contexts, with particular emphasis on adolescent development and well-being. Her academic qualifications include: Masters (Coursework) of Educational Studies (Adv), The University of Queensland Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Psychology, The University of Queensland Dr. Bourgeois specializes in the adolescent 'dip' phenomenon—a decline in social, emotional, and cognitive skills around age 15—investigating its manifestations in academic well-being, emotion regulation, engagement, curiosity, creativity, and self-esteem. Her research prioritizes disadvantaged adolescents from low socioeconomic backgrounds, examining classroom emotions, student-teacher relationships, and self-efficacy. She pioneered the S2* emotion application for real-time classroom emotion tracking and advocates for co-designed interventions with education stakeholders to support adolescent development. Her publication record demonstrates consistent focus on adolescent well-being across educational contexts, with recent works addressing classroom boredom, emotion regulation in disadvantaged students, and translating research into practical educator resources. She bridges academic research and real-world application through media contributions in The Conversation and THE Campus. Dr. Bourgeois is not available for student supervision and has no publicly documented research grants. As a core member of the UQ Learning Lab, she collaborates with multidisciplinary researchers, educators, and industry partners to develop evidence-based resources addressing adolescent development challenges.

Aisling Mulvihillمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Social Cognition
• Self-Regulation
• Language Development
• +۸ مورد دیگر

Dr. Aisling Mulvihill is a Research Fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on social cognition, self-regulation, and the interplay between language and theory of mind in early childhood and adolescence. Bachelor of Science, University College Dublin Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland Her clinical background as a speech pathologist informs her work on neurodevelopmental disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). She co-authored the Ant Patrol Children's Stories (2013), an educational series supporting social-emotional learning in children. The 15 most recent publications span mental state language, cross-cultural communication, private speech in self-regulation, and educational interventions like the MASTER™ Focus Program. Topics include gender expression in child-adult interactions, maternal communication styles, and the developmental impacts of sibling relationships. She supervises PhD research on mental state talk in early childhood education and has served as associate advisor for projects on bilingualism and gender socialization.

Morag Donaldsonمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Language Development in Children
• Language Impairment
• Child Psycholinguistics
• +۲ مورد دیگر

Morag Donaldson is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in child language development and impairment. She actively teaches undergraduate courses in Developmental Psychology and Children with Language Impairments while supervising PhD research. Her research centers on language development and impairment in children, with specific expertise in: Comprehension and production of explanations and causal expressions Word learning mechanisms in children with vocabulary difficulties This work bridges developmental linguistics, clinical psycholinguistics, and speech-language pathology to advance understanding of typical and disordered language acquisition. Analysis of her publications (2005-2009) reveals consistent focus on syntactic phenomena like verb-phrase anaphora and lexical development in clinical populations, demonstrating methodological rigor in spoken language tasks and causal expression analysis across developmental stages. Donaldson supervises PhD student Diana Lopez lugo and has secured substantial research funding totaling £379,000 from major bodies including: Economic and Social Research Council (three grants) Medical Research Council Scottish Office departments These projects address verb-phrase anaphora, phonological awareness, speech-language therapist roles, and Scottish Gaelic acquisition in children.

Debbie Goochمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Developmental Psychology
• Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• Language Development
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Dr. Debbie Gooch is a Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at the University of Surrey, within the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the Department of Psychology. She holds a PhD from the University of York and has extensive postdoctoral experience, including managing the Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES) at Royal Holloway/University College London. Her research focuses on neurodevelopmental disorders such as Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), Dyslexia, and ADHD, examining their cognitive underpinnings and impacts on educational and mental health outcomes. She collaborates with prominent research groups like DEVELOP and GoGDev at Surrey, as well as LiLaC and the Center for Reading and Language. Dr. Gooch’s research employs experimental and longitudinal methodologies. Key projects include investigating executive function, language skills, and social-emotional mental health (SEMH), and analyzing the co-occurrence of neurodevelopmental disorders. She has secured grants from the University of Surrey’s Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and contributed to ESRC-funded studies. Her pedagogical interests include educational innovation, evidenced by her 2019 Lewis Elton Award. Teaching responsibilities include module convenor roles for Psychology & Education (PSY3082) and Neurodevelopmental Conditions (PSY3103). She supervises PhD students exploring language disorders, mental health, and spatial reasoning in education. Notable publications address language-screening in schools, ADHD symptom assessments, and the efficacy of interventions like Taekwondo for self-regulation. Education: PhD (University of York, 2009), MSc in Reading, Language & Cognition, BSc Psychology (University of York, 2004) Labs/Groups: DEVELOP, GoGDev (Surrey); LiLaC (UCL), Wellcome Language & Reading Project Grants: Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences Research Support Fund (2017–2018)

Mine Dogucuمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Statistics Education
• Data Science Curriculum Development
• Bayesian Statistics
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Mine Dogucu is an Assistant Professor of Teaching and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Statistics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Her work centers on modernizing statistics and data science curricula, emphasizing accessibility, open education resources, and Bayesian statistical pedagogy. Her research focuses on curriculum development, particularly integrating Bayesian methods into undergraduate education and addressing accessibility barriers in data science learning. She co-authored the open-access textbook Bayes Rules! An Introduction to Bayesian Modeling with R , designed to make Bayesian concepts accessible to novice learners. Additionally, she develops free educational materials and contributes to open-source tools in R for reproducible workflows and automated grading. Her publications highlight advancements in Bayesian education, reproducibility in classrooms, and inclusive teaching strategies. She explores challenges in introductory data science education and advocates for equitable access to learning resources. Her work bridges pedagogical innovation with practical applications, fostering global engagement in statistics and data science through open-access initiatives. In advising and grants, she focuses on curriculum modernization and instructor training, particularly in Bayesian methods. She collaborates on projects like MetaDocencia to enhance online education and MetaDocencia to support remote statistics instruction. Her efforts align with broader goals of making education universally accessible and cognitively approachable.

Lisette de Jonge-Hoekstraمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Developmental Psychology
• Cognitive Development
• Multimodal Communication
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Dr. Lisette de Jonge-Hoekstra is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology , part of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen. Her research focuses on multimodal communication, cognitive development, and the interplay between gestures, speech, and complex dynamical systems. She explores how children's hand movements and speech patterns coordinate during learning and problem-solving tasks, emphasizing embodied cognition and ecological psychology frameworks. Her expertise spans developmental psychology, educational research, and the application of complexity science to understanding cognitive variability. She has contributed to methodologies using motion capture and computational tools like OpenPose to analyze movement data. Dr. de Jonge-Hoekstra has organized academic events such as the Heymans Colloquium on embodied music pedagogy and participates in editorial roles for Frontiers in Psychology . Research Awards: Recipient of the Aanjaagfonds Universiteit van het Noorden (2023). Teaching Roles: Leads courses on academic skills, research methods, and complexity in developmental psychology for bachelor and master programs. Key Projects: Investigates 'Differentiatie Binnenstebuiten' and hosts the 'Podcast grow with the flow'. Her work bridges Piagetian theory with modern dynamical systems approaches.

Gül Øzerkمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Educational Psychology
• Special Education
• Counselling
• +۹ مورد دیگر

Gül Øzerk is a Lecturer at the Department of Special Needs Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo. She specializes in educational psychology, counseling, and issues related to psychosocial difficulties, multiculturalism, and organizational psychology. Her research focuses on academic boredom, mental health, and social competence in educational settings. Education Background: Bachelor in Pedagogy (UiO, 2011–2013) Bachelor in Musicology (UiO, 2008–2011) Master in Educational-Psychological Counseling (2013–2015) Research Interests: Gül’s work addresses topics such as early intervention strategies for bilingual children, autism spectrum disorders, and the psychosocial challenges faced by students. She emphasizes the importance of fostering social competence and mental health in educational environments. Her research also explores multiculturalism and organizational psychology in educational institutions. Key Contributions: Gül has published on academic boredom, social skill development in children with autism, and policy approaches to early intervention for multilingual students. She co-hosts a podcast discussing special education practices and research. Affiliations: She is part of the Behavioral Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD) and Inclusion and Diversity in Education (IncluDEd) research groups. She has supervised numerous bachelor and master students since 2015 and held roles as an assistant professor at UiO and OsloMet.

Mary Altمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Word Learning
• Concept Learning
• Bilingualism
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Dr. Mary Alt is a Professor and Department Head of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona. She directs the L4 Lab, focusing on word learning, concept learning, and bilingualism. Her research integrates experimental and clinical approaches to understand how children acquire language and concepts, with a particular emphasis on bilingual populations and children with developmental language disorders. Dr. Alt holds certifications from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and is a licensed speech-language pathologist in Arizona. She teaches courses such as SLHS 399/499/599 (Independent Study) and SLHS 555 (Developmental Language Disorders). Her research highlights the interplay between working memory, language acquisition, and learning disabilities. She has published extensively on topics including vocabulary interventions for late talkers, phonological processing in dyslexia, and the application of technology in global health initiatives. Dr. Alt’s work bridges experimental research and clinical practice, with a focus on evidence-based treatments and telehealth models. Dr. Alt received the prestigious Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2021. Her contributions to the field include advancing understanding of bilingual cognitive development and designing interventions that address learning challenges in children with communication disabilities. She collaborates on interdisciplinary projects to leverage technology (e.g., automatic speech recognition) for global educational equity, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goals.

• Organizational Behavior
• Strategic Management
• Hierarchical Structures
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Stephan Billinger is a Professor with special responsibilities at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), affiliated with the Strategic Organization Design Unit (SOD) and the Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS). His research focuses on hierarchical micro-mechanisms, particularly authority dynamics across organizational levels, and their implications for strategic management. He employs experimental and case study methodologies in firms to explore these topics. Billinger holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and previously served as a postdoctoral research fellow at London Business School (UK). His research interests span organizational behavior, strategic management, and experimental economics. Notable themes include exploration-exploitation tradeoffs in complex search tasks, feedback effects on decision-making, and the role of hierarchy in cooperation dynamics. His work has appeared in journals like Organization Science and Journal of Experimental Economics . Beyond research, Billinger contributes to academic discourse through seminars and collaborative projects. Recent activities include organizing online research seminars at SDU, focusing on topics such as decision structures and boundary-spanning in professional services firms.

• Computational Neuroscience
• Theoretical Neuroscience
• Decision-Making Models
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Ruben Moreno Bote is a Serra Húnter Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research focuses on theoretical and computational neuroscience, with an emphasis on decision-making processes, neural coding, and computational models of cognitive dynamics. His work bridges disciplines such as neuroeconomics, systems neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, addressing topics like uncertainty management, value encoding, and neural network dynamics. Key research areas include: Computational principles of decision-making under uncertainty Neural mechanisms of economic choice and value representation Stochastic control in recurrent neural networks Cognitive dynamics of attention and confidence Integration of astrocytes in systems neuroscience His recent articles explore complex behaviors arising from intrinsic motivation, optimal sampling strategies in decision-making, and the role of neural oscillations in value-based decisions. The breadth of his work reflects a commitment to understanding how neural systems process information and guide adaptive behavior. Dr. Bote collaborates across disciplines, contributing to theoretical frameworks that connect neuronal activity with higher-order cognitive functions. His research has implications for understanding both healthy cognition and potential dysfunctions in neurological disorders.