Sheila K. Marshall
Sheila is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Associate Faculty in the Division of Adolescent Health & Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at UBC’s Point Grey Campus. She received her Ph.D. in Family Relations and Human Development from the University of Guelph and began working at UBC in 1998. Her research with adolescents and families involves understanding communication processes between parents and adolescents and how families prepare adolescents for the transition to adulthood.
Lauree Tilton-Weaver
Lauree is a Lifespan Developmental Psychologist who received her Master’s and Ph.D. at the University of Victoria (B.C., Canada). She has worked at Örebro University since 2007. Her research has examined adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment (e.g., depressive symptoms, self-harm, self-concept problems, and delinquency), exploring how parents and peers affect adolescent well-being. She has identified important ways that adolescents’ perceptions of their own and others’ maturity affects their behavior. With Sheila Marshall, she has shown how adolescents can shape parents’ control by choosing what information to share with them. Exploring the limits of control, she has shown how adolescents’ interpretations and reactions to parents’ behavior affects their well-being as much as parents’ intentions. She is interested in understanding how these issues play a role in governance transfer.
Kristen P. Goessling
Kristen received her B.A. from the University of Missouri, Columbia, her M.S. from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR, and her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She has over 15 years of field-based, professional experience as a child and family counselor, community-based therapist and social worker. In each of these capacities, her focus was on advocacy work with children and adolescents from underserved populations. Kristen’s interdisciplinary scholarship is grounded in critical and sociocultural theory and spans the fields of child and youth development, qualitative research methods and critical youth studies. Central to all of her research is the understanding that people are active cultural producers in relation to the social practices and systems in which they are embedded. Her work utilizes collaborative and visual research methods that seek to amplify participant voices and perspectives.
Kelli Sullivan
Kelli Sullivan has lived in the North Okanagan since 2000 with her husband, Todd, and their two children (ages 14 & 12). She has a BA in Psychology and an MA in Family Studies with a focus on parent-adolescent relationships. Kelli has experience as a youth counselor, program developer, non-profit manager and academic researcher. For the past 5 years her focus has been on moving research into policy, practice and programs. Kelli works as a Community-Based Researcher on the Over2U project.
Mauricio Coronel Villalobos
Mauricio started his Ph.D. in Measurement, Evaluation and Research Methodology (MERM) in September 2015. Mauricio is interested in psychometrics and the development of new strategies in the growing field of technological advancements.
Andrea Johnson
Andrea is a PhD student in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. She has Bachelors degrees from McGill University and the University of Calgary and a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Carleton University. Andrea has extensive experience working with adolescents within diverse health care settings and has had a clinical practice at BC Children’s Hospital since 2006. She is interested in exploring the psychosocial impact of disease on adolescents and understanding the diverse experiences of this population throughout a disease trajectory. Her doctoral research involves the adaptation of adolescents to cancer survivorship.
