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• Causes and maintenance of disruptive and aggressive behavior in childhood
• Social, cognitive, and neurocognitive factors linked to disruptive behavior
• Effectiveness and long-term outcomes of cognitive-behavioral group treatments for children and caregivers
• Personalizing psychosocial interventions to match individual child and family needs for improved outcomes

• Suicide; suicide prevention and postvention; social determinants of mental health; Indigenous peoples health; the effects of criminalization and incarceration on mental health; qualitative methodologies; trauma and violence-informed community-based interventions. 

• 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. 
   

• Early cognitive development
• Young children's learning about the world through symbolic means, such as language, pictures, videos, and replica objects
• Children's use of language to think and communicate about what is perceptually not present
• The social, linguistic and representational factors that influence children’s learning about the world

• Risk and wellness behaviours during emerging adulthood (ages 18-25)
• The influence of distal (early relationships, attachment styles, child maltreatment) and proximal (individual differences in emotion regulation, motives for risk behaviours, mood, interpersonal interaction) factors on the everyday risk and wellness behaviours of emerging adults

• Psychosocial factors in the well-being of underserved populations; women’s experiences with poverty and intimate partner violence; effect of systems-level responses to women affected by these stressors.

• 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 early childhood educators and children and between family members and children. Examining how these interactions impact children’s wellbeing.
• 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.
• Examining how education systems need to change to support children who will enter an evolving work landscape. This work involves integration of existing evidence in terms of what are the key future skills and government programs that can support the Canadian population to accommodate to changing demands. It also means integrating evidence on how to effectively teach key skills to young children as well as generating new evidence in this area.

• 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.