Faculty members from different fields come together to equip students with a deep understanding of the foundations of aging, and advance collaborative and impactful research projects.
DIRECTOR
Liana Brown, BSc, MSc (Waterloo), MS PhD (Penn State)
Cognitive neuroscience; sensorimotor control.
*Not taking on MA students for the 2024-2025 academic year
FACULTY AND THEIR RESEARCH AREAS
Suzanne Bailey, BA (Queen’s), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Women’s writing; art history and visual arts; print culture; Victorian and Canadian literature; life-writing and memoir; literature and science; aging and the life course.
Peri Ballantyne, BA, MA (Western), PhD (Toronto)
Work and health across the life course, lay-professional negotiations of illness, diagnosis and health care; benefits and costs of pharmaceuticals in health care, the pharmaceutical life course, pharmaceutical aging and old age.
*Not taking on MA students for the 2024-2025 academic year
Liana Brown, BSc, MSc (Waterloo), MS PhD (Penn State)
Cognitive neuroscience; sensorimotor control.
*Not taking on MA students for the 2024-2025 academic year
Emily Bruusgaard, BA (Waterloo), MA (Trent), PhD (Queen’s)
Canadian literature; fat studies; aging in larger bodies; literatures of generational trauma and PTSD; disability studies; material culture and women's domestic fiction.
Nadine Changfoot, BA (York), MA (Carleton), PhD (York)
Arts-based and community-based research on issues and cultural representations related to aging, disability and intersectional identities and difference with a decolonizing lens; capacitating environmental sustainability in urban contexts.
May Chazan, BA (Waterloo), BEd (OISE), MA, PhD (Carleton)
Decolonial, queer, anti-racist, and crip perspectives on aging, intergenerational storytelling and arts-based methodologies; activism, futurities, and solidarities, and critical intergenerationality.
Sally Chivers-Storey, BA (Calgary), MA, PhD (McGill)
The Cultural Politics of Aging and Disability, especially in literature and film; health humanities; digital storytelling for Social Change; scholarly podcasting.
Mary Jean Hande, BA (Saskatchewan), MA (York), PhD (Toronto)
Caregiving, care work, aging, madness, and disability studies.
Elizabeth Russell, BA, MSc, PhD (Memorial)
Rural aging (including age-friendly communities and older voluntarism); the teaching of aging based courses; intergenerational connectivity; rural housing alternatives for older adults.
*Not taking on MA students for the 2024-2025 academic year
Raheleh Saryazdi, BSc (Trent), MA, PhD (University of Toronto)
Cognitive aging, dementia, language and memory, multisensory integration, human-computer interaction, technology-based interventions.
Bharati Sethi, BA, MSW, PhD (Wilfrid Laurier)
Highlights social determinants of health in immigrant and refugees’ lives, social justice; community engaged research, policy, arts-based, and transnationalism.
Mark Skinner, BA (Wilfrid Laurier), MA (Guelph), PhD (Queen’s)
Rural aging, aging rural communities, rural gerontology, health geography, health and social care, voluntarism, community-based research, qualitative methods.
Stephanie Tobin, BSc (Western), PhD (York)
Stem cell physiology, striated muscle pathologies, aging, inflammation and tissue repair, signal transduction.
Sarah West, BPHE, MSc, PhD (Toronto)
Exercise physiology, exercise in chronic disease, psychosocial health, metabolic health, exercise and bone health.
Kirsten Woodend, RN, BScN, MSc (Ottawa), PhD (Toronto)
Aging persons; chronic disease management and self-management; health systems.
EMERITUS AND ADJUNCT
Kimberly Bergeron, BA (Trent), MHST (Athabasca), PhD (Queens)
Age-friendly communities, health and place, intergenerational housing between students and older adults, policy reform related to health and social care systems for older adults, health equity impact assessment.
Stephen Katz, BA (York), MA (McGill), PhD (York)
Critical gerontology, aging bodies, cognitive impairment, design and health technologies
B. Marshall, MA (Guelph), PhD (Alberta)
Intersections of gender, sexuality, technology and aging embodiment
