Jade Oldfield
Jade Oldfield is a PhD student in neuroscience whose goal is to connect the fields of neuroscience and education to help facilitate better support and understanding of all students, K-12 and post-secondary alike. Jade completed her Bachelor of Education at the University of Lethbridge in 2018 and proceeded to work in a variety of complex classrooms and working as a Learning Support Teacher. This experience prompted her to seek a better understanding of neurodiverse learners and led her to enroll in the interdisciplinary MEd through the University of Calgary in 2021. After her first year in the educational neuroscience stream, she was committed to making a bigger impact and immediately enrolled in the MSc (Neuroscience) under the supervision of Dr. Robbin Gibb in 2022. Since then, her research has focused on studying executive functions (EF) and how play-based interventions can modulate EF skills. In particular, Jade’s research projects include the impact of chess play on EFs in at-risk youth and the impact of a play-based intervention on adolescent EF.