Dr. Ralf St. Clair joined the Department of Integrated Studies in Education as a Full Professor and Chair in January 2012. Dr. St. Clair holds a PhD in Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, he has worked in Illinois, Texas, Vancouver and in his birth city of Glasgow.
Dr. St. Clair's research interests include literacies, the political economy of educational research, and assessment/accountability. He recently completed a major longitudinal project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in the UK looking at high school student aspirations. In late 2010, Dr. St. Clair published “Why literacy matters” with the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE).
Dr. Charles-Antoine Julien joined the School of Information Studies as an Assistant Professor in January 2012. Dr. Julien holds a PhD in Information Studies from McGill University, a Masters of Applied Science and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the École Polytechnique of Montreal. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
Dr. Julien’s research interests are focused on how information organization affects the efficiency of humans using novel information retrieval (IR) tools. He is concerned with increasing our understanding of how information is organized in order to create, develop and test efficient human-information interaction tools that people enjoy using. Dr. Julien has designed and tested human-information interfaces, based on metadata and ontologies, to facilitate information exploration and searching. His current work addresses highly interactive and immersive information visualization tools for existing organized collections.
Dr. Karyn Moffatt joined the School of Information Studies as an Assistant Professor on September 1, 2011. Dr. Moffatt obtained her BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2001. She then completed her Master of Science in Computer Science at UBC in 2004, and continued on to her PhD in Computer Science at UBC, completing her thesis on “Addressing age-related pen-based target acquisition difficulties” in 2010. Funded by both NSERC and CIHR-STIHR Health Care, Technology, and Place (HCTP), Dr. Moffatt has been doing post-doctoral work with Dr. Ronald Baecker at the University of Toronto Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab (TAGLab), examining the design of technology to support social interaction, including technology to support intergenerational communication, to connect socially isolated individuals with their friends and family, and to help adults with aphasia and children with autism communicate more effectively.
In her research, Dr. Moffatt focuses on older adults, a diverse demographic allowing opportunities for exploring the ways that human abilities and disabilities impact interactions with technology. She incorporates a variety of HCI methodologies, including user-centered and participatory approaches to design, and laboratory and field experiments for evaluation.
Dr. Armando Bertone joined the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology as an Assistant Professor in August, 2011. Dr. Bertone is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical neuropsychologist, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at l’Université de Montréal, and a Researcher at the Fernand Seguin Mental Health Research Center. He directs the Perceptual Neuroscience Lab (PNLab) for Autism and Development, with sites at both the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University, and l’Hôpital Rivière-des-Praries in Montréal, Canada. He is an FRSQ research scholar and has been a member of the Order of Psychologists of Quebec (OPQ) since 2002. Dr. Bertone also sits on the scientific advisory board of CongniSens Inc., a privately-run company developing instruments for cognitive assessment and training. Dr. Bertone’s research interests include: Autism Spectrum Conditions, Development, Cognitive Assessment, Perceptual Learning, Visual and Auditory Processes, Multisensory Integration, Social Perception, and Technology Transfer.
Dr. Jessica Ruglis joined the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology as an Assistant Professor in August, 2011. Dr. Ruglis was a WK Kellogg Health Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. A former public school teacher, Dr. Ruglis holds a PhD in Urban Education, an MPH in Community Health and an MAT in Secondary Science Education.
Dr. Ruglis conducts interdisciplinary, mixed methods, community based participatory action research. Employing an ecological and biosocial approach to inquiry, her research, theory and writing focuses on: the role of education and social policy in shaping human development, dis/advantage, insecurity and risk across the lifecourse and intergenerationally; schooling as a social determinant of health; school dropout as a public health issue; the biopolitics of school dropout; adolescent health and development; interventions for reducing school dropout and improving student engagement; alternative forms of civic engagement, capacity-building, leadership and resistance; and ethics of community and participatory research. In addition to research, Dr. Ruglis engages in local, state, national and international policy and legal issues related to this work.