March 11, 2021 marks one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Carleton experts are available to comment on a range of related topics and research.
Natasha Artemeva
Professor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies
Email: NatashaArtemeva@cunet.carleton.ca
Artemeva is available to speak to journalists about her current study which focuses on how autistic university students are responding to changes in post secondary education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kenta Asakura
Professor, School of Social Work
Email: kenta.asakura@carleton.ca
Asakura is available to speak to journalists about the rising popularity of online therapy/psychotherapy (i.e., telehealth used in mental health), and the education and training for those delivering online therapy.
Jacquie Ballantine
PhD Candidate, School of Linguistics and Language Studies
Email: jacquie.ballantine@carleton.ca
Ballantine is a retired speech-language clinician who taught as an instructor in Carleton’s School of Linguistics and Language Studies. She is currently a PhD candidate in the department. Her research involves autistic individuals and other neurodiverse people, particularly regarding how they communicate and how this intersects with non-autistic ways of communicating. She is a co-principal investigator with Artemeva on several research projects with autistic individuals, including a study on how autistic university students respond to COVID-19 related changes in higher education.
Amedeo D’Angiulli
Professor, Neuroscience
Email: Amedeo.Dangiulli@carleton.ca
D’Angiulli is available to speak about the impact of economic hardship on families and children in terms of of cognitive and brain processes. D’Angiulli is the director of The D’Angiulli Lab, which does interdisciplinary work covering cognitive neuropsychology, developmental science, sociology of education, educational psychologies and new fields within cognitive neuroscience.
Linda Duxbury
Professor, Sprott School of Business
Email: linda.duxbury@carleton.ca
Duxbury is the author of Something’s Got to Give: Balancing Work, Childcare and Eldercare and is available to discuss work-life balance, coping, employee wellbeing and working from home.
In the past decade, Duxbury has completed major studies on balancing work and family in the public, private sectors and not-for-profit sectors. Duxbury also conducts research which evaluates the organizational and individual impacts of e-mail, portable offices, smartphones, telework, flexible work arrangements and change management and what makes a “supportive” manager. She has completed three national studies on work-life balance in which over 70,000 Canadian employees participated. She has also completed a major study on balancing work, childcare and eldercare and is currently working with the Conference Board of Canada on a study of how to motivate change in the development and implementation of policies and practices in support of balancing work and caregiving.
Duxbury has published widely in the areas of work-family conflict, change management, supportive work environments, employee wellbeing, role overload, telework, the use and impact of office technology, managing the new workforce and supportive management.
Banu Örmeci
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: banu.ormeci@carleton.ca
Örmeci is available to discuss monitoring of COVID-19 in wastewater as an early detection tool, COVID-19 in water environments and COVID-19 and workload for female faculty. She is currently the Jarislowsky Chair in Water and Health and the director of the Global Water Institute at Carleton.
Susan Phillips
Professor, Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership
Email: SusanPhillips@cunet.carleton.ca
Phillips is available to speak about the effects of the pandemic on the charitable sector and philanthropy.
Patrick Saunders-Hastings
Professor, Health Science
Email: PatrickSaundersHastings@cunet.carleton.ca
Saunders-Hastings is an epidemiologist with expertise in global health, infectious disease epidemiology and emergency preparedness. He is available to speak to journalists about the social and health consequences of COVID-19
Gabriel A. Wainer
Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering
Email: Gabriel.Wainer@sce.carleton.ca
Wainer is available to speak about long-term organization of workspaces and ventilation. He has written about these topics extensively in The Conversation. Wainer also speaks fluent Spanish and is available to speak with both English speaking and Spanish speaking journalists about this topic.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 in Experts Available
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