Scientific Advisory Board

 

Dr. Kim Matheson

Dr. Matheson was appointed as Vice-President (Research and International) on October 27, 2009.  She joined the Department of Psychology at Carleton University in 1990 as a SSHRC Canada Research Fellow, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2003.  She received her Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Waterloo and is a Carleton alumna (B.A. Hons/82, M.A./83). She is an accomplished researcher and graduate supervisor, is widely published, with more than 100 conference presentations and refereed papers.  Her research spans a wide range of issues in the social and health sciences, as well as public policy.  She is one of the few researchers to have been funded by all three major funding agencies:  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Dr. Matheson has considerable administrative experience at the departmental, faculty and university levels.  As Chair of the Department of Psychology at Carleton University from 1997 until 2003, she presided over the largest academic unit at the University.  She has served on University Senate, the Senate Financial Review Committee, and was a member of the University Task Force on Planning and Priorities.  She is currently a member of the Boards for the Sudbury Nutrino Observatory Institute, the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratories, and the Internet Security and Safety Network, all of which are regional or national research consortiums. She is on the Advisory Board to the Social Interactions, Identity, and Well-being Panel of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.