York University,also known as YorkU or simply YU,is a public research university in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university,and it has approximately 55,700 students,7,000 faculty and staff,and over 325,000 alumni worldwide. It has 11 faculties,including the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies,Faculty of Science,Lassonde School of Engineering,Schulich School of Business,Osgoode Hall Law School,Glendon College,Faculty of Education,Faculty of Health,Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change,Faculty of Graduate Studies,School of the Arts,Media,Performance and Design,and 28 research centres.
Ronald Melzack was a Canadian psychologist and professor of psychology at McGill University. In 1965,he and Patrick David Wall revolutionized pain research by introducing the gate control theory of pain. In 1968,Melzack published an extension of the gate control theory,in which he asserted that pain is subjective and multidimensional because several parts of the brain contribute to it at the same time. During the mid-1970s,he developed the McGill Pain Questionnaire and became a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Pain. He also became the founding editor of Wall &Melzack's Textbook of Pain.
Norman Doidge,,is a psychiatrist,psychoanalyst,and author of The Brain that Changes Itself and The Brain's Way of Healing.
Deborah P. Britzman is a professor and a practicing psychoanalyst at York University. Britzman's research connects psychoanalysis with contemporary pedagogy,teacher education,social inequality,problems of intolerance and historical crisis.
Lorraine Code is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at York University in Toronto,Ontario,Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her principal area of research is feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge.
Martin Jeffrey Steinbach was an American vision researcher who spent most of his career in Canada. He was Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at York University. He received a master's degree from Connecticut College in 1965 and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1968.
Russell W. Belk is an American business academic,currently a Distinguished Research Professor and the Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing at Schulich School of Business,York University. Professor Belk is a leading authority on consumption,consumer culture,consumer behaviour,materialism,collecting,gift-giving,sharing and the digital self. In 2017,he was elected to the Royal Order of Canada,one of the highest honours that can be bestowed on researchers in Canada.
Isabella C. Bakker is a Canadian political scientist,currently a Distinguished Research Professor and York Research Chair at York University. In 2009,Bakker became the first York University professor to earn a Trudeau Fellowship and was later elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Debra Pepler is a Canadian psychologist known for her research and advocacy within the field of childhood aggression and bullying. She is currently a distinguished research professor at York University in Toronto,Ontario.
Dawn R. Bazely is a full professor in biology in the Faculty of Science,and the former Director of the Institute for Research Innovation in Sustainability,at York University in Canada. In 2015 she was awarded the title of University Professor for services to research,teaching,and the institution. Bazely has been a field biologist for forty years and her research specializes in plant-animal interactions in ecology. She has also been recognized for her science communication.
Leah F. Vosko is a professor of political science and Canada Research Chair at York University. Her research interests are focused on political economy,labour rights,gender studies,migration,and citizenship. In 2015,she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Rebecca Rita Elizabeth Riddell (née Pillai) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a basic-behavioural scientist. She is a full professor at York University and Tier 2 York Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health.
Jonathan Charles Edmondson is a British-born historian. He holds Full Professor and Distinguished Research Professorship status at York University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Marcia Hampton Rioux was a Canadian legal scholar. She was a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University.
Susan Lee McGrath is a Professor Emerita in the School of Social Work at York University and former director of York's Centre for Refugee Studies.
Jane Marie Heffernan is a Canadian mathematician. Her research focuses on understanding the spread and persistence of infectious diseases. She is a full professor at York University and a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Multi-Scale Quantitative Methods for Evidence-Based Health Policy. She is the director of the Centre for Disease Modelling,and is on the board of directors of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society.
Kristin Alexandra Andrews is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University and she holds the York Research Chair in Animal Minds.
Deanne Williams is a Canadian author and literary scholar. She is a Professor in York University's Department of English. A pioneer in early modern Girls' studies,she has published research on Shakespeare's girl characters and girl performers in medieval and early modern England,as well as on the influence of French culture on English literature.
Molly Madeleine Ladd-Taylor is a Canadian historian. Having moved to Canada during the 1990s,she is a professor of history at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research focuses on the histories of women's health,maternal and child welfare policy,and eugenics in the United States.
