News & Stories

Oct 27, 2014
MERM Professor Makes Top 10 Publications List

Dr. Bruno Zumbo, Measurement, Evaluation & Research Methodology (MERM) professor, is recognized in the recent list of top 100 authors in the social sciences.
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Oct 14, 2014
Dr. Alanaise Goodwill Featured on UBC News

Dr. Alanaise Goodwill says poverty, violence and a lack of resources are determinants for gang involvement.
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Oct 09, 2014
Dr. Schonert-Reichl On Upcoming ‘Be The Village’ Dalai Lama Event

Dr. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl answers a few fun interview questions about social and emotional learning in anticipation of the upcoming Dalai Lama Vancouver event.
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Sep 10, 2014
Better schools through unschooling? via UBC News

Dr. Jennifer Vadeboncoeur explains what we can learn from a radical educational philosophy that does away with traditional schooling altogether.
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Sep 02, 2014
mECPS Spotlight on Zarina Giannone

ECPS M.A. student, Zarina Giannone, discusses her recent accomplishments and explains how she's managed to accomplish so much, in such a short amount of time.
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Aug 21, 2014
2014 HSS Research Dissemination Grant ECPS Awardees

Congratulations to ECPS faculty members, Alanaise Goodwill and Sterett Mercer on receiving 2014 HSS Research Dissemination Grants!
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Aug 20, 2014
Educators in Dadaab are “Engines of Change”

Educators in the in the Teacher Education Diploma Program in Dadaab, Kenya send their thanks to students at Westside Montessori Academy Summer Camp who made bookmarks to help them study.
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Aug 12, 2014
Youth Summer Camp Project Reaches Refugee Camp

Students at Westside Montessori Academy Summer Camp came together to make 87 laminated book marks for the educators the the Dadaab Refugee Camp.
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Jul 07, 2014
Dr. Norman Amundson Receives the NCDA Eminent Career Award

The National Career Development Association awarded Dr. Amundson with their highest honour: the Eminent Career Award!
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Jun 27, 2014
Dr. Jennifer Vadeboncoeur on ‘Academic Redshirting’ in Canadian Family

Dr. Vadeboncoeur discusses the 'Academic Redshirting' trend that parents are now facing that deals with greater academic pressures on their children at increasingly younger ages.
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Jun 05, 2014
Shelley Hymel, Recipient of the 2014 Jacqueline Farquhar Endowment for Children’s Mental Health

Congratulations to Professor Shelley Hymel for receiving the 2014 Jacqueline Farquhar Endowment for Children’s Mental Health!
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Congratulations to ECPS HSS Seed Grant 2014 Awardees!

Congratulations to the following Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education researchers for being awarded the 2014 HSS Seed Grants...
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SCPS Sessions at the 75th Annual CPA Convention, June 5 – 7

School Psychology has a strong turn-out this year with several presentations at the 75th Annual Canadian Psychological Association Convention by faculty and students.
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Jun 04, 2014
Drs. Zumbo and Hymel Section Keynote Speakers at the 75th Annual CPA Convention

Starting the annual convention off right, Professors Bruno Zumbo and Shelley Hymel are scheduled section keynote speakers on Thursday, June 5th, 2014.
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May 30, 2014
Dr. Allison Cloth Awarded 2014-2015 HSS Seed Grant and John and Doris Andrews Research and Development Award

Dr. Allison Cloth has been awarded the 2014-2015 HSS Seed Grant ($7,000) and the John and Doris Andrews Research and Development Award ($3,700).
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