Educational Research Unit

Goals and Primary Interests | Team Members and Current Projects | Research Assistant Opportunities

This research unit brings together researchers and graduate students interested in counselling and career development. Its goal is to develop and disseminate new theoretical as well as practical knowledge. The issues studied by this unit are numerous and diversified. They can include career education curriculums, life transitions, violence in schools, supervision process research, intervention methods in helping relationships.

Goals and Primary Interests

The Educational Research Unit in Counselling and Career Development adheres to the mission statement of the Faculty of Education while creating and circulating new theoretical and practical knowledge. The focus is on a variety of research issues including: violence in schools, career education curriculum, life transitions, professional identity of counsellors, counselling communities of practice, and intervention methods in helping relationships. Multiple collaborations within this research team and across other research fields are ongoing in the area of Counselling Supervision and the Education and Training of Counselling Supervisors. A large-scale research program is currently being developed with this central topic and a PhD in Counselling Supervision is under construction. Team members are actively seeking funding from an array of sources. National and international involvement with conferences, presentations, and alliances are underway.

Team Members and Current Projects

Nick Gazzola

David Paré

J. David Smith

Cristelle Audet

André Samson

Anne Thériault

Research Assistant Opportunities