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The
UBC Child & Family Project is team of
co-investigators from the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. The team is
comprised of people involved in diverse fields of
research and action for children and
families.
Sally
Ross, Project Coordinator of UBC Child and
Family Project
slross@interchange.ubc.ca
Sally
Ross has been the coordinator of The UBC Child and
Family Project since it's inception. In May 2001,
she graduated with her Master of Arts at UBC School
of Community and Regional Planning. She has worked
with children in a number of different capacities.
One of her current interests is the involvement of
young people in community development efforts,
specifically around issues of social justice and
critical education.
Dr.
R. Armstrong, B.C. Research Institute for Child
& Family Health
barmstrong@cw.bc.ca
Dr.
Bob Armstrong is Associate Professor, Department of
Pediatrics, University of British Columbia. He is
Director of the Centre for Community Child Health
Research, BC Research Institute for Children's
& Women's Health and is also Vice President,
Medical Services and Quality Promotion for the
Children's and Women's Health Centre of BC. Dr.
Armstrong's primary research interests relate to
the impact of disease and injury on the behavioural
processes and the social and environmental factors
that affect the healthy development of
children.
Prof.
C. Canam, School of Nursing, UBC
canam@nursing.ubc.ca
Connie
Canam is an Assistant Professor in the School of
Nursing at UBC, specializing in children with
chronic health conditions and/or disabilities and
family coping. Her research has focused on parental
coping with a child's chronic health
problem/disability and parental perceptions of
supports necessary to promote child and family
health; the development, implementation, and
evaluation of an education/support program for
parents of children with chronic conditions; and
the role of nursing in the provision of supportive
services for families of children with chronic
conditions. Current projects include a study of the
socioeconomic and cultural factors influencing the
provision of supportive services for families of
children with special health needs and the
potential implications of the study findings for
the development of child and family policy.
Dr.
K. Craig, Department of Psychology, Associate
Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC
kcraig@cortex.psych.ubc.ca
Dr.
Kenneth Craig is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
and Professor of Psychology at U.B.C. His research
on pediatric pain is supported by operating grants
from the Medical Research Council and the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada.
Prof.
J. Ericksen, UBC School of Nursing
ericksen@nursing.ubc.ca
Janet
Ericksen is an Assistant Professor in the School of
Nursing at UBC where she teaches courses in mental
health nursing and in health care ethics. Areas of
special interest to Janet are nursing ethics and
interpersonal violence. Her interdisciplinary
activities are in the areas of health care ethics,
child welfare, and sexual assault. Present research
involves investigating the effectiveness of parent
support groups for mothers who have left abusive
relationships, clients' experiences with a
specialized sexual assault service, and ethical
efficacy among nurses.
Dr.
J. H. V. Gilbert (*co-principal investigator),
Coordinator of Health Sciences, UBC
john.gilbert@ubc.ca
Dr.
John Gilbert is a Professor in the School of
Audiology and Speech Sciences and Coordinator of
Health Sciences at UBC. For the past 35 years his
research interests have focused on phonetic and
phonological aspects of child language, and
language breakdown following stroke. The production
and comprehension of the sound systems of language
present complex theoretical problems. Understanding
the relationship between phonetic and phonological
levels, as they emerge in language acquisition,
also holds great potential for the understanding of
language disorders. He has co-edited books on child
language, and child phonology with colleagues at
UBC. Among other research awards he has been a
Fulbright Scholar, and Medical Research Council
Post-Doctoral Scholar. He is a Senior Fellow of
Green College. Dr. Gilbert is one of the founders
and Co-Principal Investigators of the UBC Child and
Family Project.
Dr.
H. Goelman (*co-principal investigator),
Educational and Counselling Psychology, &
Special Education, UBC
hillel.goelman@ubc.ca
Dr.
Hillel Goelman's research interests include the
short- and long-term effects of early childhood
care and education programs, especially as they
impact on at-risk children and low-resource
families, and the broader social policy contexts in
which such programs are embedded. His work in
SSHRCC-funded Victoria Day Care Research Project
and Vancouver Family Day Care Research Project
(with Dr. Alan Pence) examined the development of
language and literacy in child-child and
adult-child interactions in home and group care
settings. Dr. Goelman was also Co-Investigator on
the Canadian National Child Care Study, a
nation-wide parental survey of child care
preferences, use patterns and satisfaction levels
funded by Human Resources and Development Canada
and Statistics Canada. He is currently
Co-Investigator on the "You Bet I Care!" Project, a
nation-wide survey of children, staff and child
care quality in child care centres and family child
care homes, funded by the Child Care Visions
Program of Human Resources and Development
Canada.
Dr. Goelman is one of the founders and Co-Principal
Investigators of the UBC Child and Family
Project. In the Faculty of Education he
teaches courses on child development, educational
psychology and the social policy contexts of early
childhood education in graduate and undergraduate
courses.
Dr.
P. Gurstein, School of Community & Regional
Planning, UBC
gurstein@interchange.ubc.ca
Dr.
Penny Gurstein is an Associate Professor at the
School of Community and Regional Planning and a
Faculty Research Associate at the Centre for Human
Settlements, UBC, specializing in the
socio/cultural aspects of community planning. She
has researched and written on healthy and
sustainable communities in numerous articles using
case studies both nationally and internationally.
Her current research projects are concerned with
implementation strategies for sustainable planning;
and investigations of gender sensitive planning.
Besides her academic research she has conducted
planning and design studies for federal, provincial
and municipal agencies on quality of life
indicators for social housing (among other topics);
and most recently was a sub-consultant on a study
investigating indicators of sustainability for a
demonstration project for Southeast False Creek in
Vancouver.
Dr.
S. Harris, Rehabilitation Sciences, UBC
shar@interchange.ubc.ca
Dr.
Susan Harris is a Professor in the School of
Rehabilitation Sciences and a practicing pediatric
physiotherapist. Dr. Harris' research has focused
on the early identification of cerebral palsy and
other neuromotor, as well as cognitive
disabilities, in infancy and early childhood. This
line of research has led to the ongoing development
of the Harris Infant Neuromotor Test (HINT), a
screening test for identification of neuromotor and
cognitive handicaps. Dr. Harris has recently
received a two-year grant from The Hospital for
Sick Children Foundation to provide for
standardization of the HINT. Her other research
focus has been in evaluating the efficacy of early
therapeutic interventions for high-risk infants and
young children with neuromotor handicaps. She has
conducted small, randomized controlled trials to
examine effectiveness of neurodevelopmental
treatment and sensory integration therapy. Dr.
Harris is a Fellow of the American Physical Therapy
Association and the recipient ofits Marian Williams
Award for Research (1992) for outstanding and
sustained research in physical therapy. She is a
founding member of the editorial board of "Topics
in Early Childhood Special Education".
Dr.
C. Hertzman, Department of Health Care &
Epidemiology, UBC
clyde.hertzman@ubc.ca
Dr.
Clyde Hertzman is a Fellow in Population Health and
Human Development in the Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research and the Director of its Program
in Population Health. Through the CIAR he has been
instrumental in creating a new synthesis which
links population health to human. He is an
advisor to the National Children's Agenda in
Canada, and co-chairs the Committee on Healthy
Child Development for the
Federal/Provincial/Teritorial Advisory Committee on
Population Health.
Dr.
C. Johnson, School of Audiology & Speech
Sciences, UBC
carolyn@audiospeech.ubc.ca
Dr.
Carolyn Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the
School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, UBC,
specializing in children's language development.
She was a member of the UBC Child Study Centre
Research Advisory Committee from 1985 until the
Centre closed in 1997, Chair from 1988-1991. Her
research focuses on discourse development and
includes work on the influence of maternal speech
on children's language development. Current
projects include a longitudinal investigation of
narrative development and a study of how blind
children understand temporal and spatial relations
in complex story scenes.
Dr.
C. Lovato, Centre for Community Child Health
Research
chris.lovato@ubc.ca
Dr.
Chris Lovato Associate Professor, Department of
Health Care and Epidemiology and Associate
Director, Centre for Community Child Health
Research, BC Research Institute for Children‚s
& Women‚s Health. She recently received a
grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation
to establish a program of research focusing on
preventive medicine and health promotion in
children and youth. Her research currently
focuses on skin cancer prevention, tobacco control,
and injury prevention.
Dr.
M. Russell,
Social Work, UBC
mrussell@interchange.ubc.ca
Dr.
Mary Russell, Professor, UBC School of Social Work,
has investigated and published primarily in the
areas of family violence, immigrant and refugee
social services, and counselling services for
women. Dr. Russell participated in the development
and evaluation of the Confronting Abusive Beliefs
treatment program for abusive men which now has
international application. Present research
involves evaluation of day treatment programs for
female and mixed gender substance abusers. Dr.
Russell is a long-standing board member of the BC
Institute Against Family Violence, andpresently is
serving as President of the UBC Faculty
Association.
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