Frank Elgar
Associate member, Department of Psychology
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BA, MSc (Developmental Psychology), Memorial University of Newfoundland
PhD (Developmental Psychology), Dalhousie University
Frank Elgar听is a Professor in the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy, an associate member of Department of Psychology and Margaret A. Gilliam Institute for Global Food Security, and a visiting professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova (Italy).
He previously worked at the Cardiff Institute for Society, Health and Ethics (UK), University of Manitoba's Department of Family Social Sciences, and Carleton听University's Department of Psychology before joining 海角社区 in 2011.听
His research examines social patterns in child and adolescent health, in Canada and globally. Current projects explore ways to improve children鈥檚 chances to be healthy amid the social forces of poverty, food insecurity, violence, and economic inequality. Frank is also a co-investigator of the World Health Organization's Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study where he leads international collaborations on the impacts of school violence, social media use, and corporal punishment legislation on adolescent mental health and well-being. His research is supported by SSHRC, CIHR, Canada Research Chairs, and Fulbright-Canada.