Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

Spotlight on Faculty

Tricia Van Rhijn

Tricia Van Rhijn

My research interests include parent-child relationships, child development, early childhood education and care, child and family well-being, family relations, various aspects of work-life integration (as well as school-life or school-work-life integration), and the experiences of non-traditional students in formal post-secondary education, in particular mature students and student parents. 

Email: tricia.vanrhijn@uoguelph.ca

Portrait of Dr. Rozita Dara

Rozita Dara

Dr. Rozita Dara is the Principal Investigator of Data Management and Privacy Governance research program. Her research group focuses on advancing the next generation of Internet of Things platforms using artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on information privacy governance.

Professor Sean D. Kelly

Professor Sean D. Kelly

I am fascinated by rurally located places of destination...My students and I work towards understanding how physical design and planning can ameliorate negative impacts on these rural environments.

Email: skelly03@uoguelph.ca

Professor Paul Garrett

Professor Paul Garrett

My research is in the area of nuclear physics, using the atomic nucleus as a laboratory to understand the fundamental forces of nature, the origins of the elements in the Universe, and how simple patterns emerge from complex systems.

Email: pgarrett@physics.uoguelph.ca

University of Guelph professor Ryan Gibson

Ryan Gibson

My current research explores the role of rural governance, place-based development, philanthropy, rural policy, community economic development, and rural immigration and mobility.

Portrait of Dr. Jaclyn Cockburn

Jaclyn Cockburn

Physical processes and human activities change the landscape and increasingly these factors work in tandem on the Earth’s surface; these interactions are what inspire and drive my research.

Email: jaclyn.cockburn@uoguelph.ca

Headshot of Joe Sawada

Joe Sawada

Combinatorial algorithms, networks and graph theory, Gray codes, complexity and data structures. 

Email: jsawada@uoguelph.ca