Dr. Marie-Hélène Pennestri, Assistant Professor with the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, was interviewed recently by TVA regarding the importance of sleep for children. Please click here to view the video, posted September 16, 2018.


Professor Nathan Hall, of our Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, recently spoke at length with Drs. Dan Quintana and James Heathers, hosts of the Everything Hertz podcast. The topic of discussion was Dr. Hall's popular @AcademicsSay social media accounts. Since Nathan Hall launched his @AcademicsSay social experiment in 2013, his humorous accounts have become some of the most visited academia-related pages.

Bystanders in cyberbullying: Where are all your friends during a cyberbullying episode?
A team involving the research group of Ève-Marie Quintin has been awarded first prize at Québec's Prix À part entière, in the category of Commissions scolaires et établissements d'enseignement de niveau primaire ou secondaire soutenant la réussite éducative ("School boards and education institutions, elementary or secondary schools, supporting educational success").

The ATTSVE project is pleased to announce their interns for the summer of 2018. For the first time each of the Faculty of Education's three departments are represented by the interns in the cohort.
SPOT Professor and Education alumna Dr. Aliki Thomas (PhD (Learning Sciences) 2011) has been selected as the 2018 winner of the McGill Faculty of Medicine Maude Abbot Prize. The award recognizes an outstanding female faculty member who excels in education, research, or administration with a focus on the early career stage.

A new paper published by ECP's Zaynab Sabagh, Nathan C. Hall and Alenoush Saroyan provides an in-depth review of the literature and research regarding burnout for post-secondary faculty. "Antecedents, correlates and consequences of faculty burnout" was published this May by Educational Research.

McGill University’s Social-Emotional Development Research Group (SED-RG), directed by Dr. Chiaki Konishi of our Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, has launched a website.
The spring 2018 edition of Dialogues, the biannual newsletter of the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology (ECP), has been published and may be viewed online here (.pdf).