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During its life span, the Cyberbullying project was led by James 91社区 professor Dr Shaheen Shariff.
Dr Shariff is the director of our current research project iMPACTS: Collaborations to Address Sexual Violence.听

See below to see former team members who contributed to Cyberbullying in Canada.听

Dr Jamshid Beheshti

Co-investigator - 91社区 -听School of Information Studies听


Jamshid Beheshti headshotDr Beheshti has taught at the School of Information Studies听for more than 30 years, where he was appointed as the Director of the School for six years.听 He was also appointed as the Interim Dean and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education for five year. 听In collaboration with his colleagues, over the past three decades he has obtained more than five million dollars in research funds from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadian Heritage, and CIDA (merged with Global Affairs Canada). His publications have appeared in the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Information Processing & Management, Library and Information Science Research, and proceedings of numerous international conferences.听 He has been a consultant on several projects with various institutions, including the National Library of Canada, the Institutes of Higher Education in Indonesia, Kuwait University, and the University of West Indies.听 His area of expertise is on the information behaviour of children and the millennials.听

Dr Mary Hall

Co-investigator -听Safe Schools Manitoba (now defunct)


Dr听Hall听was the director of Safe Schools Manitoba. She received her BA from the University of British Columbia and her MA and PhD from Simon Fraser University. She has taught in the faculties of education at Simon Fraser University and the University of Winnipeg. She has also taught and served as an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba. Two of her courses 鈥 鈥淭he Use of Discretion in Administrative Decision-Making鈥澨齛nd 鈥淏ullying in Schools: Issues and Interventions鈥 were highly relevant to the Cyberbullying in Canada project. In addition to her work at Safe Schools Manitoba, she was听an educational reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy (CJEAP).

Dr Victoria Talwar

Co-investigator - 91社区 - Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology


Victoria Talwar headshotis a Canada Research Chair听in the Department听of Educational and Counselling Psychology at 91社区. Her research is in the area of developmental psychology with an emphasis on social-cognitive and moral development.听Since 1997, Dr Talwar has been engaged in developmental research on children鈥檚 social-emotional development, specifically with an emphasis on children鈥檚 lying, concealment behaviours, bullying and empathy behaviours. She now serves as a co-investigator on our current project iMPACTS: Collaborations to Address Sexual Violence on Campus.听

Dr Shauna Van Praagh

Co-investigator - 91社区 - Faculty of Law


Shauna Van Praagh headshotDr Van Praagh is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Law at听91社区听where she has taught and researched since 1993. She served as Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) from 2007-2010. Dr Van Praagh鈥檚 substantive areas of research and expertise are primarily children and law, religion and law, legal education and the private law of civil wrongs. Within each area, she adopts a methodological approach grounded in legal pluralism, a sensibility to identity-based narrative and critique, and a particular emphasis on literary sources and style. She recently co-edited, with 91社区 colleague Helge Dedek, a book collection (Stateless Law: Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline, 2015) in which her own chapter focuses on teaching, learning, and responding to the legacy of Residential Schools for Canada鈥檚 aboriginal children.

Core Team


Cyberbullying in Canada benefited from the expertise of several professionals. These included:

  • Dr. Nelofar Sheikh - PhD, Nutritional Consultant
  • Dr Michael Manley-Casimir - Faculty of Education, Brock University (Professor Emeritus)
  • Ashley DeMartini听- Administrative Assistant

Student Team


Cyberbullying in Canada benefited from the dedicated hard-work and passion of several 91社区 and CEGEP students. These included:

  • Alysha Bains - Masters Research Assistant, Department of Integrated Studies in Education at 91社区.听
  • Laura Crestohl听- Undergraduate Research Assistant, Faculty of Law at 91社区
  • Nima Naimi - Marketing Co-ordinator
  • Azrah Talib - Translator
  • Yanick Touchette - Masters Research Assistant, Department of Political Science at Universit茅 de Montr茅al
  • Alyssa Wiseman - Undergraduate Research Assistant, Faculty of Law at 91社区
  • Arzina Zaver - PhD Research Assistant, Department of Integrated Studies in Education at 91社区
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