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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.

To find out whether you require a supervisor, review the admission requirements for your program of interest.

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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…

Arlan N. Schultz

Music
Associate professor of music, composition and theory Department of Music chair Head of the composition area composition music technology hardware design music theory music perception and cognition philosophy and music computer assisted…

Arlan N Schultz

Music and Digital Audio Arts
Composition, music theory, music perception and cognition, philosophy and music, real-time immersive audio, audio spatialization as an aesthetic/compositional determinant, gestural control of immersive audio, interactive computer music, electronics…

Elizabeth Schultz

Biological Sciences
Plant Developmental Genetics, Molecular Biology, Arabidopsis, control of auxin transport and response. Topics: Formation of leaf vein pattern in Arabidopsis, Control of leaf shape in Arabidopsis, The role of auxin transport and response in…

Kaylan Schwarz

School of Liberal Education
Identity, authenticity, social constructionism, volunteer tourism, community engagement, feminisms, material culture, qualitative research methods, visual research methods, participatory research…

Monique Sedgwick

Nursing
nursing education, nursing ethics, simulation, rural practice, qualitative research Topics: Nursing education, ethics, simulation, rural practice

Behnam Seyed Mahmoud

Physics and Astronomy
Geodynamics, Geodynamo, Wobble, Nutation, Elliptical Instability, Planetary Magnetic Field, Fluid Core, Earth Rotation. Topics: Theoretical/computational and experimental studies in rotating fluids; Computational techniques to predict the modal…

Gongbing Shan

Kinesiology and Physical Education
Biomechanics, Repetitive Stress Injuries, Ergonomics/anthropometry, 3D motion analysis, Biomechanical Modeling, Sports and music performance analyses, Equipment design, Evaluation and optimization, The prediction and prevention of falls among the…

Pei Shao

Finance
Financial Institutions, Syndicated Loan Market, Secondary Loan Market, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, IPO, Mergers and Acquisitions. If you contact me, please include: your research interests and your…

Amy Shaw

History
society in wartime citizenship gender anti-war movements

John Sheriff

Statistics

Daniela Sirbu

Department of New Media
My research is interdisciplinary at the confluence between new media, fine arts, architecture, systems engineering, and evolutionary computing. Part of my latest work is focused on computational creativity in visual arts. I am interested in…

David Slomp

Education
My research is primarily qualitative or mixed methods in nature, though I do frequently work in multidisciplinary teams that utilize psychometrics. Topics: My research focuses both on the development of writing ability across the lifespan, and on…

James Smith

Accounting
How investors react to managerial disclosures in financial reports. Topics: Financial Reporting, Sustainability Reporting, Financial Literacy

Conor Snoek

Indigenous Studies
Linguistics, Indigenous languages (Dene, Algonquian, Totonacan), German, Italian, English, language documentation, language teaching, language revitalization anthropology. Topics: Historical linguistics, languages, Indigenous languages, language…

Tabitha Spagnolo

Modern Languages and Linguistics
17th-Century French Studies, 17th Century French literature, theatre, and history, 17th Century masculinity and monarchy, Early modern gender and identity.

Locke Spencer

Physics and Astronomy
​While my research is focused on the development of a lab-based FIR interferometry testbed, it contributes to many aspects of the FIR roadmap including the exploitation of current results and facilities, and collaboration with future experiments,…

Darlene St. Georges

Art Education
Creation-centred research––visual and literary arts and creativity as methodology and method for inquiry. Research Topics of Interest Creation-Research; Arts Informed/Arts-Based/Artistic inquiry; Métissage; Storying; Poetic Inquiry; Eco-Relational…

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 If you…

Katharina Stevens

Philosophy
Legal Reasoning, Argumentation Theory, Philosophy of Law Learn more If you contact me please include: A writing sample (written by yourself), a clear explanation of how your interest relates to a topic that I am actively publishing…

D. Andrew Stewart

Music
Composition, Theory, Music technology and performance, Digital musical instrument performance, Gesture-controlled audio systems, Sound mapping design, Real-time software systems, Human-computer interaction. D. Andrew Stewart is a composer, pianist…

Michael Stingl

Philosophy, Women and Gender Studies
Evolution and ethics, The just distribution of healthcare resources, and Euthanasia. Topics: Evolution and ethics, Euthanasia, and Research ethics. Selected Publications Books: John Collier and Michael Stingl, Evolutionary Moral Realism,…

Sandra Stringer

Music
25 year career as a professional singer, experience in directing for opera/musical theatre, experience in conducting for choir and opera If you contact me, please include: Name, contact information, voice type, interest in the MMus program, an…

Anastasia Stuart-Edwards

HRLR
Mindfulness, employee well-being, work engagement, multilevle analysis If you contact me, please include: How your research interests align with my areas of expertise.

Robert Sutherland

Neuroscience
Memory, Learning, Amnesia, Hippocampus, Adult neurogenesis, Cognitive neuroscience, Cerebral cortex, Recovery of function, Electrophysiology, Aging, Prenatal alcohol effects, FASD, Stroke, and Episodic…

Alain Flaubert Takam

Modern Languages and Linguistics
Alain Flaubert Takam’s current research focuses on language in education planning, especially acquisition planning, that is, language planning as it relates to the teaching and learning of minority languages in a bilingual or multilingual context.…

Masami Tatsuno

Neuroscience
​Dr. Tatsuno’s experimental research is aimed at understanding how REM and non-REM sleep contribute to memory consolidation. By recording multi-neuronal activity with hippocampal dependent and independent tasks, his laboratory investigates whether…

Aaron Taylor

Drama
Aaron Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Drama Department and a Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier 2) at the University of Lethbridge, where he specializes in Film Studies. He is editor of THEORIZING FILM ACTING, co-editor of SCREENING…

Alexandra Tetarenko

Physics and Astronomy
I am an observational astrophysicist specializing in the long wavelength radio/sub-mm regimes. Research Interests: black holes, relativistic jets, transients and the time-domain, polarimetry, molecular lines, bayesian statistics and…

Nehal Kumar Thakor

Biological Sciences
Molecular Biology of Cancer Cancer Biology Stem Cell Biology Topics: Regulation of mRNA translation in cancer Regulation of mRNA translation in stem cell differentiation RNA Biology Requests for Supervision: Please include your CV and…

Stuart Thomas

Accounting
Accounting Ethics

Yuan (Gloria) Tian

Corporate finance, corporate governance & ESG, financial management, investments.

Ivan Townshend

Geography and Environment
Urban social structure Demographic change and cities Neighbourhood change and typologies Residential segregation Geography of well being Geography of ageing, the Third Age Rural community Disasters and social resilience in rural…

Kien Tran

Economics
Nonparametric/Semiparametric Mixture Models; IV free approach to endogeneity problems in regression models, SAR as well as in the Parametric/Nonparametric Panel Stochastic Frontier Framework, with the majority of applications are in Banking and…

Steven Urquhart

Modern Languages and Linguistics
Quebec Literature; Monsters and the "monstrous" in Francophone literatures; Deconstruction; Intertextuality; Silence as an aesthetic and subversive literary device; The Scapegoat; Literary…

Paul Vasey

Psychology
Topics: Animal Behavior and Cognition. Primate Neuroanatomy. Human Evolution. Evolutionary Psychology. Sexuality and Gender. Development and evolution of non-conceptive sexuality in Japanese macaques, Development and evolution of male androphilia…

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…

Peter Visentin

Music
Violin performance, Historically Informed Performance Practices, Musician's Health Research, Biomechanics of Music performance Research Topics of Interest Violin performance, Historically Informed Performance Practices, Musician's Health Research,…

Laura Vogelsang

Nursing
Mixed-methods, Multi-methods, Interviews, Focus groups (virtual and in person), Interpretive Description Research Topics of Interest Digital health, Virtual reality, Artificial Intelligence, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,Medical and…

John von Heyking

Political Science
Dr. von Heyking will only consider supervisory inquiries from students interested in the Master of Arts in Political Science. Political theory (ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary), Politics and literature, Ideologies, American politics,…

Amy Von Heyking

Education
History of Canadian education Curriculum theory and policy History teaching and learning

Kenneth Vos

Physics and Astronomy
Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Theoretical Physics Nonlinear Physics

Mark Walton

Physics and Astronomy
Conformal field theory and its applications to string theory, Phase-space quantum mechanics, Physical applications of Lie algebras and groups, and Mathematical physics.

Stacey Wetmore

Chemistry and Biochemistry
Computational chemistry, Molecular modeling, ab initio methods, Density functional theory, Electronic structure, One-electron properties, Reaction mechanisms, Weak interactions, Hydrogen-bond strengths, and Stacking…

Jessica A Willi

Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ribosome, Synthetic Biology, Origin of Life, ribosomal RNA, Ribosome Engineering, RNA world, oxidative stress, Ageing, Cell-free Protein Synthesis, Translation, Molecular Cloning, Directed Evolution, Antibiotic…

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;…

Patrick Wilson

Anthropology
Political economy, Indigeneity, Fair Trade, NGOs and Development, Indigenous Social Movements, Race, Ethnicity and Identity, Ethno-nationalism, Gender and Development, Geographic Areas: Ecuador, Colombia, Amazon, Andes, Spain. Topics: Fair Trade,…

Steve Wiseman

Biological Sciences
Aquatic Toxicology Topics: Endocrine disruption, reproductive toxicology, embryotoxicity, mechanistic toxicology, multigenerational toxicology, genomics If you contact me, please include: Name, Email address, statement of interest in my…

Kevin Wood

Education
Learning Leadership; System Organization; Educational Leadership; Formal, informal, and distributive; Communities that learn; System diversity, inclusion, and equity; Indigenous leadership for school systems; Organizational Culture; Leadership…

Walter Wymer

Marketing
Nonprofit marketing, brand management, philanthropy, volunteerism Topics: Nonprofit marketing, brand management, philanthropy, volunteerism