2018
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First-year anniversary
December 07, 2018
The Child and Youth Development Clinic’s (CYDC) first-year success highlights the strong demand in London for children and youth services.
New report on domestic violence documents 418 cases of domestic homicide involving 476 victims in Canada from 2010-2015
December 06, 2018
A new report from the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations (CDHPIVP) is a painful reminder that domestic ...
Report shows tragic patterns in domestic homicides
December 06, 2018
A new report from the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations (CDHPIVP) is a painful reminder that domestic ...
Remembering the Montreal 14
December 06, 2018
Students, faculty and staff gathered solemnly at different places on campus Thursday to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance and Action on ...
High school students learn about missing Indigenous women at ‘A Room of Your Own’ book club event
December 05, 2018
More than 90 female high school students from the Thames Valley District School Board and the London District Catholic School Board will learn ...
Teaching award
December 03, 2018
Professor Nicole Neil from the Faculty of Education has won the prestigious Teaching Award from the Ontario Association of Applied Behavior ...
Hats 4 Homeless
November 29, 2018
Amberly Charette has collected items to create survival kits for the homeless in London. She will be buying all of the items for the kits and ...
‘Top 20 in 20’
November 22, 2018
The International Journal of Qualitative Methods has recognized Professor Prachi Srivastava’s contribution (with co-author Nick Hopwood, ...
Council rebrand
November 16, 2018
A new look reinforces the important advocacy work the Education Students’ Council (ESC) does on behalf of teacher candidates.
Boot campaign
November 15, 2018
A shocking study on poverty in London is spurring the Faculty of Education to help alleviate it one boot at a time.
Teacher wellness
November 14, 2018
The Bachelor of Education program at the Faculty of Education hosted its first Teacher Wellness Conference.
Gearing up for milestone
November 13, 2018
The Provincial Centre of Excellence for Early Years and Child Care is about to hit a significant milestone. It’s preparing to send its first ...
Program eases stress for families with epilepsy
October 25, 2018
Western professors Karen Bax (Education) and Kathy Speechley (Paediatrics and Epidemiology & Biostatistics) will soon begin a three-year study ...
Fischer: ‘Make this planet a better place’
October 25, 2018
An applied mathematician and computer scientist whose family fled to Canada in the 1920s after the Russian revolution, Charlotte Froese Fischer ...
Western University cannabis experts available to speak with media
October 17, 2018
With cannabis officially legal in Canada today, Claire Crooks and the following multidisciplinary experts from Western University are available to ...
Real-time recruitment
October 09, 2018
Students looking to apply to the Faculty of Education have another way to talk to a Western Education recruiter.
International expert examines the corporate costs of domestic violence
October 02, 2018
An internationally renowned expert who specializes in the business costs of domestic violence will deliver two talks locally on Wednesday, October 3.
Sexual violence policies
September 14, 2018
Two Faculty of Education researchers – professors Rita Gardiner and Melody Viczko – were recently awarded with a Social Sciences and ...
Epilepsy and M3 Program
September 12, 2018
Professors Karen Bax from the Faculty of Education and Kathy Speechley from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Lawson Health ...
Educational psychology pioneer
September 11, 2018
There’s Faculty of Education history at Raven Lake, which is located in the Muskoka area of Ontario.
Slabs of the original gymnasium floor ...
Western elite among Royal Society Fellows
September 10, 2018
Four Western scholars, and one alumna, have been named among the new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).
Congratulations Colin
September 07, 2018
Colin Couchman, Director of the IMPACT Group, has accepted the inaugural role of Director, Cybersecurity and Business Services at Western ...
Words always mattered to global prizewinner
September 05, 2018
Lorelei Lingard’s love for language started early in her childhood, when she and her mother, who was a high school English teacher, would ...
Learning from Elders
September 04, 2018
Professor Erica Neeganagwedgin from the Faculty of Education has been awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Insight Development ...
Carrying the weight of the future
August 29, 2018
Danielle Holdsworth, BA’02, BEd’03, is a competitive world-class weightlifter and paddle boarder - and schoolteacher/librarian.
Leave offers hope for domestic violence victims
August 23, 2018
Barb MacQuarrie, Community Director of Western’s Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children, is confident a ...
School mental-health handbook
August 21, 2018
Faculty of Education professor Alan Leschied along with professors Donald Saklofske and Gordon Flett, are editors of The Handbook of School-based ...
After-school STEM program
August 14, 2018
Professors Anton Puvirajah and Nicole Neil at the Faculty of Education have received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) ...
Teaching compassion
July 23, 2018
Raghad Ebied quotes Aristotle because his words reflect her literary and academic goals. She wants to educate the hearts of young children.
Changes at the Education Library
July 23, 2018
We in Western Libraries are excited to introduce a new organizational model that will enhance our capacity to advance research, teaching and ...
One student’s odyssey
July 20, 2018
Finding yourself. It’s a road. But, at the end of the road is fulfillment. For one graduate, the road wound its way through a British ...
Braille Certificate
July 16, 2018
A new certificate program offered through Advanced Studies in Professional Education (ASPIRE), Western’s Continuing Teacher Education ...
Hibbert: Must trust teachers on health education
July 13, 2018
Teachers will do what is necessary to create safe and inclusive classrooms for their students. That may mean that they will draw on other ...
Communicating effectively
June 18, 2018
Western Education and Western Engineering are teaming up in developing a pilot project that supports PhD students develop communication and ...
Award recipients
June 15, 2018
The 2017-18 academic-year award recipients were announced at the Spring awards ceremony that was held at the Faculty of Education.
Western awarded funding for cannabis education
June 14, 2018
The Faculty of Education has received $99,000 from the Public Health Agency of Canada to inform educators about the health and safety risks ...
Western Education receives funding for cannabis education
June 13, 2018
Western University’s Faculty of Education has received $99,000 from the Public Health Agency of Canada to work with stakeholders on ...
Community Partnerships
June 05, 2018
Teachers have marketable skills for jobs outside the education system. While these transferrable skills may not be easily recognized, it’s ...
Associate Teacher mentors
June 04, 2018
Karen Swartz, Karen Green, Melissa Jones and Mallory MacLeod were presented with the Associate Teacher’s Award for Excellence during an ...
Gender and race activist coming to Western to discuss violence against women and girls
May 29, 2018
Author, filmmaker and cultural theorist Jackson Katz will discuss the important role that educators and parents play in addressing violence ...
Students still facing barriers
May 04, 2018
Many students with an intellectual disability continue to face academic and social barriers in Ontario’s public school system.
Many Ontario schools failing students who have an intellectual disability: report
May 04, 2018
Despite recent developments in human rights and education law, as well as a shift in special education delivery and efforts to make schools more ...
Staff International Engagement
April 27, 2018
To be a global leader in education, Western encourages its employees to seek knowledge from other parts of the world. One staff member from the ...
Revitalizing Indigenous Education and redefining scholarship
April 26, 2018
Education is considered to be one of the most potent tools to improve the lives of young Indigenous peoples in Canada. And its work remains ...
Study: Creativity is state of mind, can be trained
April 19, 2018
Joel Lopata, PhD’15 (Education), recently published a study looking at improvisation in jazz performance which indicates creativity is a ...
Work-ready experience
April 09, 2018
Constantly growing. Always learning. Hard work. For students going through the Bachelor of Education program at Western University, they must have ...
Provincial Centre of Excellence
March 26, 2018
Faculty, staff and community partners joined together to celebrate the Ministry of Education’s announcement that Western Education has been ...
Western Education selected to lead Provincial Centre of Excellence for child care
March 23, 2018
The Ministry of Education has chosen the Faculty of Education at Western University to lead the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Early Years ...
CREVAWC Nomination
March 22, 2018
The Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC) has been recognized for its groundbreaking research and ...
Western Education to celebrate major initiative to improve, support and sustain quality of early years programs
March 22, 2018
Western University has been chosen to lead a major initiative, which will improve, support and sustain quality early year programming utilizing a ...
Bringing empathetic healing to the community
March 08, 2018
Rebecca Machado, executive director at Daya Counselling Centre, stresses her organization does not provide “haphazard counselling for the ...
Student Clinicians
March 07, 2018
Faster assessments and team work mean quicker intervention and treatment for children when they visit the Child and Youth Development Clinic. When ...
Shannon McKechnie
March 05, 2018
Shannon McKechnie, a graduate student in Western Education’s Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies program, has won an Ontario ...
Children's Books
March 02, 2018
One graduate student is reaching beyond campus and making a difference in our society by helping the most vulnerable – sick children. ...
Clinic success spotlights dire need for help for children
March 01, 2018
Colin King, director of the Western-led Child and Youth Development Clinic, said the interdisciplinary centre has helped about 100 families since ...
Digging Deeper
February 16, 2018
Neoliberalism is a powerful economic force and one graduate student is studying to determine how it’s influencing post-secondary institutions.
Learning through dog training
February 12, 2018
What do two dogs participating in a lecture have to do with the Faculty of Education? On the surface it may not seem there’s a connection, ...
Rising-star composer signs with top publisher
January 25, 2018
Sarah Quartel, BMus’05, BEd’06, is the newest composer signed to a contract with the prestigious music division of Oxford University ...
Edge Walker
January 15, 2018
They’re around us but we don’t see them. The Old Colony Mennonites (OCM) are an important part of Southwestern Ontario but ...
Pioneering direction in Down syndrome research
January 11, 2018
Education professor Nicole Neil is one of a handful of North American researchers to pioneer the use of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) for ...
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