Thesis/Project/Paper Supervisors

Juanita-Dawne Bacsu

Supervisory status: full

  • Rural health
  • Gerontology
  • Dementia
  • Stigma
  • Cognitive health promotion
  • Health policy
  • Social media
  • Ageism
  • Frailty
  • Age-friendly environments

Michelle Borgland

Supervisory status: associate

  • End of life/palliative care
  • Disenfranchised grief
  • Death education
  • Relational practice
  • Ethnography/hermeneutics

Tracy Christianson

Supervisory status: full

  • Gerontology
  • Community health
  • Teaching and learning
  • Rural interprofessional education and practice
  • Chronic disease management
  • Methodology: mixed methods

Melba D’Souza

Supervisory status: full

  • Diversity and technology
  • Education and simulation
  • Gender and women’s studies
  • Health and well-being
  • Health care and nursing
  • Obesity and diet

Florriann Fehr

Supervisory status: full

  • Women’s and pediatric health
  • Student success
  • Bullying in the workplace
  • Cognitive rehearsal training inquiry
  • Phenomenology – Giorgi’s analysis

Tracy Hoot

Supervisory status: full

  • Preparing nurses for the preceptorship role
  • Internationally educated nurses
  • Community development
  • Health promotion
  • Primary health care
  • Social justice
  • Leadership in nursing
  • Board governance

Joyce O’Mahony

Supervisory status: full

  • Community health nursing
  • Multicultural health and healthcare access
  • Postpartum depression
  • Health promotion strategies
  • Qualitative research

Catherine Ringham

Supervisory status: full

  • Leadership and mentoring in nursing
  • Qualitative research, institutional ethnography
  • Critical social perspectives
  • Health system organization
  • Neonatal and maternal/child nursing
  • Quality improvement in healthcare
  • Civility in the workplace

Steve Ross

Supervisory status: graduate course instructor


Tanya Sanders

Supervisory status: associate

  • Community health nursing
  • Indigenous health nursing
  • School health
  • Home care
  • Institutional ethnography

Darlene Sanderson

Supervisory status: adjunct

  • Traditional knowledge
  • Indigenous people’s health
  • Community capacity building
  • Water research – health and copper
  • Mixed methods research

Rani H. Srivastava

Supervisory status: full

  • Patient /family centred care
  • Leadership
  • Organizational change
  • Cultural identity, cultural competence, diversity and equity
  • Quality improvement
  • Knowledge translation
  • Ethics

Ann-Marie Urban

Supervisory status: adjunct

  • Nurses mental and physical health and well-being
  • Nursing students mental and physical health and well-being
  • Student Engagement
  • Mental Health
  • Holistic Self-care
  • Spiritual Care
  • Yoga
  • Menopause

Anila Virani

Supervisory status: full

  • Chronic disease management
  • Digital health, eHealth, mHealth
  • Online and distance education