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Before you apply to these ULethbridge graduate programs, you must secure a supervisor:
  • Master of Arts
    • excluding Economics
  • Master of Music
  • Master of Science
  • Doctor of Philosophy

You must provide confirmation from a ULethbridge faculty member who has agreed to supervise you before you submit your application for admission.

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Dawn McBride

Counsellor Education
A) Clinical Psychology, assessment & treatment of DSM/mental health disorders (e.g., eating disorders, bipolar, OCD, & personality disorders) with a special interest in differential screening. B) Curriculum Development, as it relates to…

Jenny McCune

Biological Sciences
I am a plant community ecologist. The goal of my research is to determine what factors drive the current patterns and long-term dynamics of plant community diversity and composition on landscapes dominated by humans. I use field surveys of forests,…

Robert McDonald

Neuroscience
organization of learning and memory in the mammalian brain functional contributions of prefrontal cortex effects of circadian dysfunction on brain and body etiology of the sporadic form of Alzheimer's…

Kevin McGeough

Archaeology
Bronze and Iron Ages of the Near East and Levant, Development of techniques for integrating textural and archaeological materials, World History from 4000-1000 BCE, Ancient economics, History of science, History of archaeology, Historiography and…

Paul McKenzie-Jones

Indigenous Studies
Indigenous treaty rights; Indigenous social justice movements/resistance/activism in the Anglo settler-colonial CANZUS states; North American Indigenous history; Indigenous futurisms and pop culture; Indigenous border resistance; transnational…

Sheila McManus

History
Dr. Sheila McManus is Professor of History and one-third of the Lethbridge Border Studies research group. McManus is the author of Both Sides Now: Making the Alberta-Montana Borderlands, co-published by the University of Nebraska Press and…

Dena McMartin

Geography and Environment
Environmental and Agricultural Engineering, Water Resources Management, Climate Change & Fresh Water Extremes (flood & drought), Water Treatment, Environmental Remediation Technologies, Oilsands Tailings Water…

Abigail McMeekin

Modern Languages and Linguistics
Japanese Second Language Acquisition Japanese Pedagogy Japanese Culture

Bruce McNaughton

Neuroscience
The main focus of Dr. McNaughton's research is the physiological and computational basis of cognition, with particular focus on memory and memory disorders, and the dynamic interactions among neuronal populations and synaptic plasticity mechanisms…

Devan McNeill

Therapeutic Recreation
Therapeutic recreation, mental health, sense of belonging, institutional ethnography, critical narrative research

Rhiannon Mesler

Marketing
Dr. Mesler has a background in social and organizational Psychology and now serves in the Marketing area at the Dhillon School of Business focusing on how consumers think and make decisions in the marketplace. She is particularly interested in…

Gerlinde Metz

Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience
Behavioural Assessment, Physiology, Histology, Brain Pathology, Biomarkers Topics: Behaviour, Brain Plasticity, Stress, Transgenerational Inheritance, Aging, Brain Injury, Recovery of Function, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Biomarkers,…

Majid Mohajerani

Neuroscience
My lab employs in vivo optical methods such as two-photon microscopy and voltage sensitive dye imaging, to study neural activity on the subcellular, cellular, and circuit level in real-time. My research focuses on the physiological and computational…

Tony Montina

Chemistry and Biochemistry
The use of Metabolomics to study disease and determine both biomarkers and mechanistic insights. Topics Metabolomics

Goldie Morgentaler

English
Nineteenth-century British and American literature, Victorian novel, especially Dickens, Austen, Eliot, Jewish and Yiddish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, Work of Chava Rosenfarb, Translation, Traditional English and Scottish…

Joy Morris

Mathematics and Computer Science
Combinatorics, algebra Topics: Graph theory, particularly Cayley graphs and symmetries of graphs. Permutation group actions on graphs. If you contact me, please include: your background in graph theory and group…

Dave Morris

Mathematics
Algebraic properties of infinite groups of matrices, Normal subgroups, homomorphisms, and actions on manifolds, Applications of finite groups to problems in graph theory, Arithmetic groups.

Richard Mueller

Economics
Labour economics, economics of education, and immigration.

David Naylor

Physics and Astronomy
Ground-Based And Spaceborne Far Infrared Space Astronomy, Terahertz Imaging Spectroscopy, JCMT, Herschel, Spire, Spica, Safari, Remote Sensing Of Atmospheric Water Vapour, and Breast Cancer Detection.

Nathan Ng

Mathematics
My area of research is analytic number theory. My main area of interest is the theory of the Riemann zeta function and L-functions. However, I am also interested in a variety of problems in multiplicative and prime number theory. Some of the recent…

Janay Nugent

History
children, youth, and parenting; women, gender, and family; early modern Scotland; the Reformation.

Dan O'Donnell

English
Digital Humanities, Scholarly Communication, History of the Book, and Old English.

Gregory Ogilvie

Education
Second Language Education Task-Based Language Teaching Practicum Supervision Teacher Education Topics: Wellness Initiatives in Education

Bradley (Brad) Olson

General Mgt
Executive decision making, Learning organizations, Governance, Team processes variables including trust and conflict, Ambivalence, Leadership Topics Executive decision making, Learning organizations, Governance, Team processes variables including…

Tracy Oosterbroek

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

Wendy Osborn

Computer Science
Databases: Spatial, Distributed, Multimedia; Mobile Information Systems/Recommender Systems; Digital Libraries.

Jennifer Otto

Religious Studies
PhD in Religious Studies, McGill 2014 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Erfurt (Germany), 2015–2017 Current SSHRC-funded research project: Remembering Anabaptist Martyrs Topics: Second and third-century Christianity; Martyrdom;…

Deanna Oye

Music
I hold a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY) in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music and a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Literature. My performing career is diverse and equally divided between solo…

Brad Parker

Music
Piano Performance Performance Practice

Nimesh Patel

Public Health
Environmental epidemiology, infectious disease, reproductive and child health, mental health. Available in a co-supervisory status

Trushar Patel

Chemistry and Biochemistry
RNA, Protein, Helicases, Host-viral Interactions, Biomolecular Interactions, RNA-protein interactions, Protein-Protein Interactions, Light Scattering, Solution X-ray Scattering, Integrated Approach, Structure-Function. Topics: Cell Biology,…

Steve Patitsas

Physics and Astronomy
My research group is mainly focused on Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM). With this microscope, we study adsorbates bonded to surfaces as well as the controlled manipulation of atoms and molecules on surfaces. In the past…

Kent Peacock

Philosophy
Philosophy of physics, Plato, Philosophies of Environment and Ecology, Metaphysics of Time, Logic. Topics: Foundations of physics, Metaphysics of time, Philosophy of ecology and biology (especially concerning mutualism and the nature of…

Derek Peddle

Geography and Environment
Remote sensing, GIS, Earth System Science modeling in studies of global environmental change

Sharon Pelech

Education
Hermeneutics, Interpretive Inquiry Topics: Science Education, Curriculum theory, hermeneutics, interpretive research, place based/place conscious pedagogy

Sergio Pellis

Neuroscience
Animal models of Parkinson's disease, movement analysis, studying animal behaviour in the laboratory, semi-free and free conditions, development of behaviour, evolution of behaviour Topics: Play behaviour, development of social skills, animal…

Tom Perks

Sociology
Studies in social capital and voluntary participation, Sport and physical activity, Social inequality, Research methods.

Paige Pope

Kinesiology and Physical Education
Dr. Pope's research interests fall under the sport and exercise psychology umbrella with two specific programs of research. Her first area of research revolves around examining the effectiveness of health promotion messages that focus on…

Chad Povey

Physics and Astronomy
Molecular spectroscopy, Experimental physics, Optics Topics: Experimental physics

William Ramp

Sociology
Classical sociological and social theory, History of sociology, Cultural sociology, Material culture; material history, History of agrarian movements, Agrarian thought and culture, Sociology of religion; implicit religion, Individual and collective…

Vineet Rathod

Chemistry and Biochemistry
Structure-function relationship of amyloids in neurodegenerative diseases and structural biology in agricultural sustainability.

Scott Rathwell

Kinesiology and Physical Education
BA PSychology (Concordia University) M.A. Kinesiology (Mcgill University) Ph.D. (University of Ottawa). Topics: Masters athletics, aging and physical activity, university athlete development, concussion…

Jackie Rice

Computer Science
My current area of research focuses on an examination of how people use programming languages, and relating sociolinguistics characteristics to differences in the use of programming languages. I am interested in whether particular styles can be…

Omar Rodriguez

Modern Languages and Linguistics
Popular and mainstream Latin American film. Latin American pop culture.

Victor Rodych

Philosophy
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Epistemology, Wittgenstein, and Popper.

Marc Roussel

Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chemical kinetics, differential equations, dynamical systems theory, stochastic processes, delays, biochemical modeling Topics: Intracellular transport, Developmental modeling, Pattern formation, Model reduction, Transcription, Stochastic…

Mary Runte

Human Resource Management
My research focuses on the interceptions between work and non work life. I have researched the general concept of work-life balance as well as explored the experience of employees engaging in corporate sponsored or endorsed voluntarism. I am…

Tony Russell

Biological Sciences
Structure, function and evolution of small RNAs and protein-RNA complexes in protist organisms; Evolution of the spliceosome and spliceosomal introns; Bioinformatic strategies to identify non-coding RNAs in…

Javid Sadr

Psychology
Object and person perspective, neural mechanisms of high-level vision, face and biological-motion processing, motor control and learning.

Paul Sanden

Music
While his primary teaching area is the history of art music, Dr. Sanden has also taught several courses on theory and performance topics, and on the history and analysis of popular music. This diversity in the classroom is reflective of Dr.…