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• Biopsychosocial factors contributing to childhood emotional and behavioral dysregulation
• Effectiveness and long-term outcomes of clinic and community-based psychosocial intervention for children with complex emotional and behavioral difficulties and their caregivers
• Personalizing psychosocial intervention to match individual child and parent social, emotional and behavioral needs
• Community-based intervention to strengthen youth social emotional skills

• Suicide and suicide prevention
• How social, political, and environmental factors—such as climate change, extreme weather events, housing, food security, poverty, racism, and incarceration—shape suicide risk and prevention
• Indigenous peoples’ health and wellbeing
• Critical Qualitative research methodologies
• Trauma- and violence-informed, community-based approaches to mental health and healing

• Vocational and career psychology
• Life career development, and career theories and counselling approaches

Development of language and literacy skills in children enrolled in French immersion programs:

• Cross-language transfer between English (L1) and French (2)
• Performance of English language learners (trilinguals) in French immersion
• Early identification of reading difficulties and reading interventions for French immersion children
• Poor reading comprehension in French immersion children

Language, literacy and well-being in Arabic-speaking and Syrian refugee children:

• Development of English and maintenance of Arabic skills
• Contributions of demographic factors (e.g., SES, parent language, home language) to literacy development
• Relationship among language, literacy and well-being

• Explores the personal meaning of wisdom in people at different ages (from children to the elderly) from different nations. 
   

• Development and Functions of Counterfactual Reasoning
• Logical Reasoning and Language
• Scientific Reasoning

• Risk and wellness behaviours during emerging adulthood (ages 18-25)
• Understanding cannabis use in emerging adulthood, including the role of motives, parents, and culture
• Parent and emerging adult relationships – impacts on substance use, mental health, and well-being

• Consequences of systems-engagement for survivors of intimate partner violence; Trauma-informed interventions that promote intimate partner violence survivors’ wellbeing; Psychological well-being of people exposed to social and economic oppression

• Promotion of mental health and well-being across the lifespan
• Prevention of self-injurious behaviours (e.g., nonsuicidal self-injury, suicidal behavior)
• Identifying protective and risk factors for self-injury
• Development of integrated mental health assessments to facilitate the early identification of students at risk for self-injury in schools and the larger community

• intersection of education, psychology, and neuroscience
• how people learn and do mathematics, with a particular focus on the role of spatial thinking in mathematics
• aim to build better bridges between cognitive science and education.

• Effective, culturally-responsive and empirically informed methods to intervene and disrupt pathways of risk for poor mental health and educational outcomes that are in part attributable to anti-Black racism and related forms of discrimination against racialized youth with a particular focus on Black Canadian, Caribbean and African children and youth in the Canadian context

• Language assessment
• Educational measurement
• Program evaluation
• Development of reading skills among K-12 school students from Grades 3 to 10
• The effects of technology-rich learning environments on students' self-regulation, emotion, and cognitive development

• Applications of machine learning in psychological and educational research
• Applied statistics and quantitative methods in psychological and educational research including topics such as latent variable and multilevel modelling
• Psychometrics and issues around educational and psychological measurement
• Causal inference and missing data analysis
• Collaborative research in education, psychology, and public health

• Development of Moral Conceptions of Lying in Adolescents
• Development of Face Processing Expertise
• Neural Mechanisms of Face Processing in Children and Adults
• Neural Mechanisms of Lying in Children and Adults

• Assessing the quality of interactions between young children and their caregivers. This includes parents and early childhood educators. Examining how these interactions impact children’s wellbeing. Developing evidence based ways to improve the quality of that interaction.
• Conceptualizing and assessing quality in early childhood education setting for quality improvement and oversight purposes. This involves studies that look at whether quality (e.g., the way that educators interact with children) is a child, educator, classroom or centre level characteristic.
• Developing evidence-based training opportunities for caregivers (both parents and early childhood educators) that support children’s social and emotional wellbeing.

• Play-based learning in the classroom; early literacy development; assessment in play-based classrooms; kindergarten; teacher practice.

• The finding, casing, and evaluating of exemplary programs in the prevention of traumatic injury
• The role of early intervention in a full local health integration network effort to prevent falls in later in life
• Evaluation of province-wide investigations of a multiple hospital and community programs to prevent inflicted infant head trauma
• The development of a public health initiative to prevent children's injuries
• Design of safe non-risk adverse playgrounds for special needs children

• Effects of childhood stress and adversity on cognitive development and mental health
• Interaction between biological (genetic) and experiential (environmental) factors on development
• Resiliency in the aftermath of adverse childhood experiences
• Physiological, neural, cognitive, and socio-emotional pathways linking early adversity to mental health in childhood and adolescence
• Biomedical and prenatal exposures and child development

• Computer supported learning environments and flexible modes of education; technology, play and gaming; emotion and cognitive engagement.