Search Supervisors

  1. Future Graduate Students
  2. Search Supervisors
At uLethbridge, several of our research-based programs require securing a potential supervisor in your desired field of research prior to submitting an application. You can search for and contact supervisors below. 

All and only applicants to the 

  • Master of Arts (excluding Economics major)
  • Master of Science, and 
  • Doctor of Philosophy 

must secure an appropriate supervisor for their studies before submitting an application. Securing a supervisor requires confirmation that the professor has agreed to supervise you.

Please note the School of Graduate Studies cannot secure a supervisor for you. Please review the admission requirements for your program of interest and our Contacting a Supervisor guide before contacting a supervisor. 

Contacting A Supervisor Guide

Oluwagbohunmi Awosoga

Health Sciences-General

Meta Analysis, Application of Statistics in Health Sciences, Time Series Analysis, Repeated Measure Designs, Business Statistics, Categorical Data Analysis, Regression Models, Nonparametric Statistical Methods, Statistical Inference, Survival Data

Julia Brassolotto

Public Health

Care work, rural health, long-term care, older adults, political economy, health sociology, health geography, health equity, social determinants of health, health care ethics, public health

Sienna Caspar

Therapeutic Recreation

NOTE Dr. Caspar is not taking graduate students at this time.

General:
Applied Research, Intervention Research, Program Evaluation, Systems Research, Mixed Research Methods

Focus:
Therapeutic Recreation, Non-pharmacological

Darren Christensen

Addictions Counselling

Addiction; Substance Abuse and Gambling. Choice and Decision-Making, Learning and Acquisition, Mathematical Models, Quantitative Analyses, Pharmacology, Neuroscience.

Cheryl Currie

Public Health
A social epidemiologist by training, my research explores the upstream determinants of Aboriginal health, strength and resilience in Canada. I work in partnership with urban and rural Aboriginal communities to examine health determinants, and to develop and

Silvia Koso

Public Health

I am trained as a physician and public health professional. Program evaluation is my main specialty. Among others, I evaluated large public health programs, designed to reduce HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and addictions in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and

Richard Larouche

Public Health

Physical activity, active transportation, independent mobility, outdoor play, sedentary behaviour, population health, social-ecological theory.

Bonnie Lee

Addictions Counselling

Couple therapy evidence-based research, Counsellor training, Pathological gambling, Addictions, Immigrants and pathological gambling, Chinese cultural beliefs and values in gambling, Spirituality and healing

Topics:

Congruence Couple Therapy

Brenda Leung

Public Health

My training is in epidemiology and naturopathic medicine. My research includes the application of various CAHC therapies in the treatment of chronic disease, as well as approaches for integrative healthcare. For example, one of my current projects is

Wendi Lonkac-Diluzio

Wendi (she/her) has worked in public health since graduating with her  Bachelor's of Nursing degree in 1997 (University of Calgary). Wendi completed her Masters of Nursing degree in 2004 and her PhD in 2014 (both at the University of Calgary). She began

Tracy Oosterbroek

Nursing
Health care access and outcomes among vulnerable, underserved populations; Indigenous and rural health; Nursing preceptorship.

Nimesh Patel

Public Health

Environmental epidemiology, infectious disease, reproductive and child health, mental health.

James Sanders

Addictions Counselling
Psychological assessment and diagnosis; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD); Behavioural addiction; Problematic video game play; Mental health; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM); Developmental disorders; Prevention;

Monique Sedgwick

Nursing

Preceptorship, Health practices in the rural setting

Topics:

Students' perception of faculty involvement in the rural hospital preceptorship experience, Multidisciplinary approach to rural hospital based preceptorship, Videoconferencing as a

Claudia Steinke

Nursing

Healthcare, management, organizational design, organizational culture, organizational climate, human resource management, architecture

Topics:

Service design, healthcare, service quality, evidence based design (architecture), HR climate

Janice Victor

Aboriginal Health
Mental health and healing, Decolonization & reconciliation, Qualitative methodologies: narrative inquiry, arts-based methodologies, community-engaged research, Indigenous methodologies & storytelling, Criminal & restorative justice, Violence

Robert Williams

Addictions Counselling

Gambling (socioeconomic impacts; Internet gambling; problem gambling; proportion of revenue from problem gamblers, prevention; etiology and epidemiology; assessment; population prevalence/assessment; indigenous gambling, Statistical Analysis; Addictions

Robert Wood

Health Sciences-General

Internet Gambling, Problem Gambling, Addiction, Theories Of Deviance, and Youth Culture.