Tracy Vaillancourt, Ph.D., Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention, uOttawa, is a recognized leading expert on bullying in youth with a focus on longitudinal studies that assess the impact of abuse on health. She is the president of the International Society for Research on Aggression, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the new Chief Editor, Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Child Mental Health and Interventions, and the Chair of the RSC COVID-19 Task Force. She holds two national coaching licences.
Wendy Craig, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Queen’s University, is a fellow of the RSC, and the recipient of the Order of Ontario and Canada. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Scientific Director of PREVNet and is a recognized leading expert on bullying in youth.
Gretchen Kerr, Ph.D., Dean and Professor, Athlete Maltreatment, Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education, University of Toronto, is a globally recognized expert in the abuse of youth in sports.
Harriet MacMillan, M.D., Distinguished University Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences and Pediatrics and Chedoke Health Chair in Child Psychiatry, McMaster University, is a pediatrician, psychiatrist, an RSC fellow, and an internationally recognized expert on child and adolescent maltreatment.
Tom Webb, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth is the Founder and Coordinator of the Referee & Match Official Research Network, and the leading authority on the abuse of match officials.
Brandon Frith, M.A. (candidate), uOttawa, is a high-performance soccer coach and is completing his MA at the University of Ottawa. His thesis topic is on the health outcomes of youth referee abuse.
Heather Brittain, Ph.D. (candidate), Vanier scholar, uOttawa, is an expert in longitudinal statistics and design. She studies the risk and protective factors of bullying and academic achievement and early adult functional outcomes such as employment stability.
Amanda Krygsman, Ph.D., Research Fellow, uOttawa, studies the interpersonal context of mental health in the development and maintenance of mental health symptoms, with a focus on exposure to violence. She is an expert in longitudinal statistics and design.
Ann Farrell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, studies the longitudinal links between youth violence and health and personality development. She was recently awarded the Alberti Center Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Bullying Abuse Prevention prize for her outstanding contributions to the study of bullying.