Professor Tracy Vaillancourt

Professor Tracy Vaillancourt is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention at the University of Ottawa where she is cross-appointed as a full professor in Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education and the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences.

 

Tracy is also a member of the Brain and Mind Institute, Faculty of Medicine and the Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, Faculty of Law, uOttawa. She is the president of the International Society for Research on Aggression, a fellow and Chair of the COVID-19 Task Force for the Royal Society of Canada, the Chief Editor, Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Child Mental Health and Interventions, and a Senior Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

 

Tracy holds the Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention. She is a full professor in the Faculty of Education, a cross-appointed full professor in Counselling Psychology and the School of Psychology, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance (CIGI).

 

Tracy's research examines the links between bullying and mental health, with a particular focus on social neuroscience. Her work is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, and the Ontario Mental Health Foundation. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of Public Safety Canada's National Expert Committee on Countering Radicalization to Violence

 

Full Professor
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention
Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education
School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences
Brain and Mind Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine
University of Ottawa