Tracy Vaillancourt
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Tracy Vaillancourt
Full Professor
Room: LMX 424
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 4134
Work E-mail: tracy.vaillancourt@uOttawa.ca

Biography
Professor Tracy Vaillancourt holds the Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention. She is a full professor in the Faculty of Education and cross-appointed as a full professor in Counselling Psychology and the School of Psychology. She is also an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Professor Vaillancourt's research examines the links between bullying and mental health, with a particular focus on social neuroscience. She is currently funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, and the Ontario Mental Health Foundation.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Vaillancourt, T., Beauchamp, M., Brown, C., Buffone, P., Comeau, J., Davies, S., Figueiredo, M., Finn, C., Hargreaves, A., McDougall, P., McNamara, L., Szatmari, P., Waddell, C., Westheimer, J., Whitley, J. (2021). Children and Schools During COVID-19 and Beyond: Engagement and Connection Through Opportunity.
Vaillancourt, T., Szatmari, P., Georgiades, K., Krygsman, A. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of Canadian children and youth.
Endleman, S., Brittain, H., Vaillancourt, T. (2021). The longitudinal associations between perfectionism and academic achievement across adolescence.
Farell, A.H., Vaillancourt, T. (2020). Adolescent empathic concern and perspective taking: Heterogeneous developmental trajectories and childhood social and psychological factors.
IN THE MEDIA
Why Canada needs free universal high-speed internet
The Globe and Mail - October 4, 2021
Why Recess Matters More than Ever
Ed Can Network - September 29, 2021
Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan
CBC - September 29, 2021
The vicious circle of high academic achievement
Faculty of Education - University of Ottawa, September 28, 2021
How going back to school could save kids’ mental health
The Globe and Mail - September 7, 2021
University of Ottawa researchers join the prestigious Royal Society of Canada
Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa - September 7, 2021
New study by Vaillancourt et al. shows reduced rates of bullying during pandemic
Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa - July 8, 2021