• Youth studies (Sociology of youth, youth cultures)
• Childhood studies (Sociology of children, childhood cultures)
• Sociology of education (critiques of public education)
• Intersections of poverty, social class, mental health, culture, identities and education)
• Marginalization and engagement of youth
• Transitions of children and youth
• Qualitative methods
• Social theory

. Tobacco Control: Smoke-free Homes
. Empowerment Intervention Research
. Cancer Prevention
. Primary Health Care
. Global Health

• Developmental Plant Morphology
• Comparisons between compound leaves and shoots
• Transitions in patterns of leaf arrangement
• Homeosis in flowers
• Conservation biology of the Gulf of St. Lawrence Aster

- aquatic insect ecology

- insect biodiversity

- Prince Edward Island streams

- Arctic insects

•  Evolution across geographic range
• Molecular and ecological genetics of local adaptation
• Plant adaptations to their environments
• The effects of hybridization on endangered species

• Molecular evolutionary genetics of insects
• Blueberry population genetics
• Environmental viability studies - lobsters

* cardiovascular diseases; hypertension; atherosclerosis; diabetes; renal disease.

* stroke and neurodegenerative diseases; different forms of cell death; neuroprotection

* oxidative stress and inflammation; antioxidants.

* Vaccinium berries (blueberries, cranberries)

* animal models of diseases; animal tissue culture

• Thyroid hormone regulation of reproduction
• Mechanisms of contaminant-induced immune suppression
• Factors influencing disease emergence in amphibians and fish populations

• Transition from benign to malignant tumours
• Heart

• Toxicity of metals to aquatic animals
• Copper homeostasis in fish
• Histopathology of metals exposure
• Development of kinetic bioaccumulation models for metals Ecological Risk Assessment

• efficacy of analgesics in the lower vertebrates
• evolution of the “pain” and/or “stress” response

• Fish pharmacology
• Biology of the host-parasite relationship between sea lice and salmonid fishes
• Developing sustainable and effective sea lice management strategies
• Resistance mechanisms to chemotherapeutants used to treat salmon for sea lice

• Behavioural Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology
• Use both behavioural and molecular approaches in laboratory animals to study both normal and abnormal brain function in relation to neurological disease including epilepsy and stroke
• Development of clinically-relevant animal models of neurologic dysfunction
• Development of new therapeutic approaches to both neuroprotetction and rehabilitation 

• Pharmacokinetics of oral morphine sulfate formulations in dogs
• Clinical evaluation of parenteral morphine sulfate as a postoperative analgesic in dogs
• Factors influencing postoperative use of analgesics in dogs and cats by Canadian veterinarians and veterinary students

•  Kidney stem cells
• Kidney development and applications to human kidney disease
• Genome-wide transcription factor profiling: microarrays and bioinformatics analysis

• Performance appraisal and management.
• Candidate reactions to selection procedures.
• Job analysis.
• Evidence-based management.
• Management of the human side of small and medium-sized enterprises.

• Corporate Governance
• Future development & Management of Professional Firms
• Corporate structure
• International business development and culture

• International marketing (country of origin for products and services)
• Consumer behaviour
• Tourism development and behaviors

• Case writing, case teaching, teaching enhancement, and North Atlantic Small Islands Research
• Changing employment structures
• Application of information technology in flexible learning
• Business process re-engineering (BPR)

• Molecular recognition of DNA secondary structures
• Telomeric DNA
• Solid-phase organic synthesis
• Novel nucleotide bases

• Computational Chemistry
• Reaction Modeling
• Quantum Biochemistry
• Electronic Structure Theory

• Carbenes
• 1,2-Hydrogen Migration
• laser flash photolysis
• azomethine ylide
• 1,5-cylization, synthesis of biologically active nitrogen-containing heterocycles
• C₆₀ carbene adducts

• Synthesis of inorganic/organic nanocomposite materials
• Conductive polymers
• Polymer liquid crystalline materials

• "Later Roman Empire, especially historiography"

• Orthopedic surgery, bone healing
• Recognizing and treating pain in birds
• Force-plate and clinical evaluation of the treatment of naturally occurring canine osteoarthritis with chondroprotectives

• Relationship of anesthetics
• Teaching simulation projects

• Small animal internal medicine
• Immunology

• Diagnostic imaging of exotic animals
• Canine reproductive ultrasound
• Orthopedics

• Companion animal behaviour and welfare (general and clinical)
  Operant conditioning
• Welfare of animals in shelters

• Mobile device interfaces
• Project management process models
• Cross-cultural interface design
• Human factors usability testing
• Learnability theory - what learning mechanisms are we born with that allow us to learn language and how do they work
• Modelling of cognitive processes, specifically language and how it is acquired by the child

• Descriptional complexity of automata and of other objects that can be described using (formal) languages
• Deciadbility and complexity of problems related to words and languages
• Minimization of representations, and application to compression techniques

• Policy-driven distributed systems management
• Distributed object computing
• Operating systems
• Software engineering

• Applied aspects of infectious and non-infectious diseases of fin-fish.
• Clinical chemistry and hematology.

• Higher Education
• Public Finance
• PEI Economic History

• Resource and Environmental Economics
• Regional Economics
• Island economy trends and comparisons with regional and national trends
• Asian Studies

• Inclusive education
• Learning disabilities
• Developmental literacy
• Francophone education
• Cultural studies
• Leadership
• Inclusive practices/learning in preservice/inservice teachers

• Educational leadership and administration across cultures
• Ethnocultural diversity and developmental education
• School systems as organizations
• The role of the principal in school culture
• The preparation and professional development of teachers

·         Codeswitching in second and foreign language teaching and learning

·         Literacy and content-based teaching in immersion programs

·         French Immersion

·         Core French

·         Teachers’ and school principals’ beliefs about language learning and teaching boys and language learning.

• Poetic inquiry
• Curriculum theory
• Writing pedagogy
• Autobiographical research
• Teacher narratives
• Arts-Based methodologies
• A/r/tography
• Critical literacy
• Transformative education
• Action research

• Fluid mechanics, hydraulics and thermofluids with a special focus on engineering applications in the aquaculture industry

• Medieval Literature
• Vernacular Theology
• Lay Literacy

• written images and photographs
• colours and shapes in images
• metaphor (and the possible neural basis for metaphor)
• synaesthesia

• Contemporary American poetry, Robert Lowell, Richard Howard, Anthony Hecht.

• 18th-century literature
• Women's writing
• 18th-century medical texts
• Representations of the female body
• 18th-century correspondence
• Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800)

• 17th Century Puritan Literature
• Adaptation of Pilgrim’s Progress
• Learning communities

• environmental governance
• community-based natural resource management
• sustainable development
• climate change
• knowledge systems
• adaptive collaborative management
• community resilience
• biodiversity conservation
• international development

• Care and support services for older adults and their caregivers
• Factors affecting the health of older adults

• Nutritional status of high risk populations
• Nutrition education
• Evaluation of nutrition programs

Research interests focus on food components and nutritional factors involved in the prevention of chronic disease and the mechanisms of their action particularly through antioxidant and anti-inflammatory functions.

• Antimicrobial pharmacology
• Clinical pharmacology
• Large animal immunology
• Acid-base disturbance and fluid therapy
• Farm food safety/infectious disease issues, including zoonotic diseases and antimicrobial residues

• General surgery, wound healing, laparoscopy, lameness diagnosis, acupuncture

• Epidemiology, Health Management (all species), food safety

• Milk Quality and Mastitis
• Dairy Production Medicine
• Infectious disease epidemiology
• Johne's Disease

• Overall research interest is the application of epidemiologic techniques to a wide range of animal health problems
• Analytical methods (particularly multilevel modelling) and animal health surveillance (particularly the immunologic diagnosis of internal parasites in dairy cattle) - interests encompass a broad range of techniques as applied to a wide range of domestic animals

• Herd and flock health and preventative medicine
• Reproduction and nutrition of ruminants, especially cattle and sheep
• Special interest in trace element and vitamin nutrition - specific expertise with selenium

• Stem cell therapy for promotion of musculoskeletal tissues in animals
• Equine bone healing
• Biomechanics of fracture repair

• Selenium status in newborn foals
• Exocrine pancreatic function and its control

• Shellfish/crustacean health and production, aquaculture field trials
• Epidemiology of shellfish and shrimp aquaculture
• Shellfish and crustacean disease research

• Diseases and performance limiting problems of the gastrointestinal and respiratory systems of both horses and food producing animals.

• Social and political history of Prince Edward Island within an Atlantic Canadian context
• Emphasis on cultural transferrence among immigrant groups, tourism, and the 20th century
• Environment and Culture

• Canadian-American Relations
• American History
• American Foreign Policy

• History of women and work
• Family history (deviance, etc.)
• Child welfare

• Combinatorics (sub-discipline of mathematics)
• Combinatorial game theory which is concerned with the mathematical analysis of two player games, such as chess

• Applied mathematics and mathematical modelling
• Concentration primarily on applications to condensed matter physics, with secondary interest in biological systems

• General topology and set theory

• Special Functions
• Singular Potentials
• Spectral Geometry
• Eigenvalue Problems: Asymptotic Iteration Method

• Medieval culture and literature (XIII–XV century)
• Study of discourses
• Popular culture in the literatures of medieval Spain and colonial Mexico
• Transatlantic Hispanic Studies
• Representations of death in the Iberian and European traditions and their projections in the New World, particularly in Mexico
• Colonial religious texts
• José Guadalupe Posada’s lithographs, especially the Calaveras
   

• Women's Studies
• Latin American Studies
• Golden Age Literature
• Hispanic Mystics
• Santa Teresa de Avila
• Clarice Lispector
• late Middle Ages, Renaissance

Littérature française du 19e siècle; Balzac; Déconstruction, Speech Act Theory, Psychanalyse

• Piano performance (soloist and collaborative pianist in chamber music and duo repertoire)
• Recent focus has been on the performance of piano music of the late 1800's and the early 1900's with a particular interest in British and American composers; and most recently, the focus has been researching and performing the piano music of Spanish composers such as Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados and Joaquin Turina

• Clarinet/Saxophone/Oboe
• Woodwind Literature and Pedagogy
• Secondary Music Education Methods
• Woodwind Techniques
• Wind Symphony
• Woodwind Ensembles

2009 Investigating digital literacies and global awareness in post-secondary net generation learners. Major  Research Grant, University of Prince Edward Island

2009 Evaluation of Newborn Family Literacy Programs in the Maritime Provinces. Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

2009 Connecting Families through Community: An English as a Second Language (ESL) Family Literacy Project. Human Resources and Social Development Canada.

• E-Learning
• Evidence Based Practice
• Expanding Roles for Nurses

• Aboriginal Communities
• Health Risk Behaviours in the Student Populations
• Sociobehavioural Cancer Research
• Empowering Parents through Asthma Education
• Family Centred Care

• Effect of neonatal hypoxia and meconium aspiration on the integrity of the respiratory membrane
• Animal models of acute lung injury, bronchiolar mucous metaplasia, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Amphibian health, status of ranavirus and chytid fungus on PEI, mortality in wild finches in the Maritime Provinces associated with tricomoiaisis (trichomonosis)

• Wildlife disease
• Amphibian conservation
• Chytridiomycosis and ranavirus infection in wild and captive amphibians

• Investigation of the agent of Lyme Disease in Atlantic Canada
• Identification of clinical chemistry and haematologic parameters associated with infection of lobsters with the protozoan causing "bumper car disease"
• Blood chemistry and haematology of aquatic species
• Investigation of hemolymph chemistry and cytology in lobsters
• Case driven investigation of emerging diseases and trends
• Bioethics and professionalism

• Immunoprophylactic and therapeutic control strategies for gill diseases of farmed fish
• Basic and applied research into the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of economically significant diseases of farmed fish
• Stabilization of epicellular biofilm components for ultrastructural examinatioIdentification and evaluation of candidate treatments for branchial diseases of farmed fish

• Metastrongyloid parasites of wild and domestic canids
• Helminth parasites of wildlife

• Decision-Support Systems for medical problems

• Development of DNA-based vaccines for bacterial pathogens
• Characterizing virulence-associated repertoire (Virulome) of the microsporidian Loma salmonae
• Characterizing novel antigens from Renibacterium salmoninarum and assessing potential for vaccine development

• Developmental cycles, pathogenesis of infection,   immunological responses, systematics and epidemiology of protistan parasites of livestock, shellfish and finfish
• Infection of lobsters with the ciliate parasite causing "bumper car" disease
• Application of principles of veterinary medicine to crustacean fisheries

Ethical theory: Contractarian ethics, moral epistemology, and evolutionary game theory.

• Environmental thought
• Feminist theory
• Ethics
• Philosophy of science
• Philosophy of education
• Parenting
• Sexuality
• Critical thinking

• Investigation of the links between atomic-scale defects in materials and their corresponding macroscopic physical properties
• Positron annihilation spectroscopy

• Polymer collapse and freezing
• Polymers and molecular motors
• Polymer translocation through nanopores
• Equilibrium and non-equilibrium polymer dynamics

Tissue optical properties
Laser therapeutics
Near-infrared spectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy
Optoacoustic imaging

• International relations
• Microstates (transition to independence)
• Island Studies
• International engagement of non-states

• Canada's role in the OAS
• Canadian-Latin American relations
• Canadian-Cuban relations
• Canadian-Mexican relations
• Canada-U.S. relations
• Human rights issues
• Gaming in Canada

• Developmental neurotoxicology
• Animal models
• CNS
• Learning and memory
• Amino acids

• basic attentional processes and the underlying cortical systems
• vision science, divided-attention, dual-task processing, object processing, aging, and neuroimaging.

• Health psychology
• Tobacco control
• Sociobehavioural aspects of cancer
• University teaching and learning
• Family violence

• Trust
• Risk
• Forgiveness
• Resiliency

• The First Year Undergraduate Experience
• Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• Student Learning and Development
• Early Childhood Education

•  social/cultural theory, education and religion, in the thought of Northrop Frye
• the history of liberal education
• faith and the "new" atheism

• International Trade
• Migration of Skilled People
• Economic Development
• International Taxation Policy
• Innovation and Geography
• Microfinance

• Social theory
• Cultural history
• Civility
• Sociology of education
• Media and society
• Cross-cultural sociology
• Civilizational dialogue
• Literature.

• Research Design and Statistics (Non-parametric)
• Organizations - Structure, Effectiveness and IOR
• Evaluation - Program, Policy and Research
• Demography - Migration, Population Growth/Decline
• Tourism - Commodification, Consumption, Carrying Capacity

• Eldercare
• Aging Populations

• Rural societies
• Small communities
• Peoples of South Asia
• Caste systems in India
• Social change and technological development

• settler colonialism in southern Africa
• the relationships between socio-cultural anthropology and contemporary social theory
• visual culture; and human-technology interactions within cultures of scientific research