School of Behavioural and Social Sciences
Dr. Lara Descartes
Professor, Family Studies and Human Development
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28059
E-mail: ldescart@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Health, informal social support, popular culture, queer families, work and family
Area of Expertise: Health, informal social support, parenting, qualitative methods, queer families
Dr. Roula Hawa
Assistant Professor, Family Studies and Human Development
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28390
Email: roula.hawa@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Women’s health, resilience and well-being of vulnerable populations, community-based
participatory research, youth engagement and mental health, racialized and immigrant
families and communities, storytelling as arts-informed inquiry
Area of Expertise: Sexual health and HIV prevention, mixed-methods in health research, family studies
teacher education
Dr. Jennifer Sutton
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Tel: 519.432.8353
E-mail: jsutton7@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Animal Cognition & Behaviour, Human Navigation
Area of Expertise: Evolution
Dr. Anne Barnfield
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28246
Email: abarnfie@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Behavioural and cognitive effects of sport and exercise participation in the general population
Use of Equine Assisted/Facilitated interventions: Psycho-social effects of Therapeutic
Riding (TR) for children with special needs and evaluation of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy
for treatment of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Ethics in psychology, for ethical research and practice
Area of Expertise: Equine assisted therapies and ethics in psychology
Dr. John Mitchell
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Tel: 519.432.8353 x.28116
E-mail: jbmitche@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Educational psychology, perfectionism and stress, coping with stress
Area of Expertise: Teaching of psychology, university teaching, learning outcomes and outcomes-based
education
Dr. Leslie Janes
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Tel: 519.432.8353 x.28275
E-mail: ljanes@uwo.ca
(bilingual faculty)
Research Areas: Social Psychology; “Jeer Pressure” (Fear of Ridicule); Performance and Mastery Goals
Dr. Christine Tenk
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28242
Email: ctenk2@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Primary rewards, rewarding foods, social connection and its outcomes
Area of Expertise: Appetitive behaviours and primary rewards
Dr. Steven Kleinknecht
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Tel: 519.432.8353 x.28279
E-mail: skleinkn@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Qualitative research, subculture, deviance, criminology, computer hackers, old order mennonites
Dr. Helene Cummins
Professor, Department of Sociology
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28251
Email: hcummins@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Gender equity, (m)otherhood, Canadian farm families, the mommy track