Applied Psychology and Human Development (APHD)
Charles Pascal
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Child care crisis
- Former deputy minister of education in Ontario
- How COVID has improved education globally
- Policy and education
- Screening tests for students and teachers
- Seniority hiring rules
Office: 416-716-7245
Email: charles.pascal@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Chloe Hamza
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-1059
Email: chloe.hamza@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Earl Woodruff
Professor and Associate Chair

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Cognition and learning
- E-Learning
- Emotions and learning
- Emotions and technology
- Gamification
- M-Learning
- Mobile computing
- Play and technology
- Science testing
Office: 416-934-4511
Home: 416-848-1748
Email: earl.woodruff@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Esther Geva
Professor, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Acculturation
- Assessment of immigrant children
- At-risk ESL children
- Cognitive and linguistic processes
- Cross-cultural issues among immigrant children
- Cross-cultural issues among second language learners
- Psychological problems in children/youth
Office: 416-978-0916
Mobile: 416-413-7776
Languages: Hebrew, French
Website
Email: esther.geva@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Feng Ji
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Data sciences
- Machine learning applications in social and behavioral sciences
- Psychometrics
- Quantitative methods in social and behavioral sciences
Office: 416-978-6752
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: f.ji@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
J. Roy Gillis
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0679
Email: roy.gillis@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Janette Pelletier
Professor Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Early child development and education
- Early literacy development
- Full-day kindergarten
- Integrated early years services (child care/kindergarten/parenting support)
- Kindergarten/early learning programs (English and French immersion)
- Parent involvement in early education
- Right to play
- Teacher beliefs and practices
Office: 416-934-4506
Home: 416-972-9931
Email: janette.pelletier@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jeanne Watson
Professor, Applied Psychology and Human Development

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Emotional expression
- Emotionally focused psychotherapy
- Empathy in psychotherapy
- Experiential psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy process and outcome
- The therapeutic relationship
Office: 416-978-0705
Email: jeanne.watson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jeffrey Ansloos
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: n/a
Mobile: n/a
Email: Jeffrey.ansloos@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jennifer Jenkins
Professor, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: jenny.jenkins@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Joan Peskin
Associate Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Ability to keep a secret (young children)
- Children’s understanding of people’s minds (theory of mind)
- Cognition and instruction
- How students learn
- Lying in young children
Office: 416-978-0948
Home: 416-486-6505
Website
Email: j.peskin@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Kang Lee
Professor, Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-934-4597
Email: kang.lee@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Katreena Scott
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Child abuse and neglect
- Dating violence
- Domestic violence
- Gender-based violence
- Treatment of offenders
Office: 416-978-0971
Website
Email: katreena.scott@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Keith Oatley
Professor Emeritus, Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Home: 416-961-7969
Website
Email: keith.oatley@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Margaret Schneider
Associate Professor Emerita

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0684
Email: margaret.schneider@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Michal Perlman
Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-831-3245
Mobile: 416-458-9731
Languages: Hebrew
Email: michal.perlman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Michele Peterson-Badali
Associate Dean, Research, International & Innovation
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0937
Home: 416-485-4684
Email: m.petersonbadali@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Roy Moodley
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Director of the Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy (CDCP)
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0721
Home: 416-481-9462
Email: roy.moodley@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Todd Cunningham
Chair of the School and Clinical Child Psychology Program
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Assistive technology
- Learning disabilities
- Literacy development
- Mental health of youth and adolescents
- Readjusting to in-person environment
- Remote-learning option
- School psychology
- Students’ mental health
- Support for students with disabilities
Office: N/A
Mobile: (416)-970-3433
Website
Email: todd.cunningham@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online