Biography
Professor
BA (UPEI); MA (Carleton); PhD (Simon Fraser)
Dr. Colleen MacQuarrie is a Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Prince Edward Island. Active in feminist organizations for more than 20 years, she is an academic activist and developmental health researcher whose program of research is directed to better understand the multifaceted nature of health and wellness across the lifespan and within diverse community settings. Her research integrates the perspectives of a feminist liberation psychology framework with the determinants of health to examine a range of content areas including change processes for health behaviours as well as population health interventions to better understand how environments support individuals’ and families’ health. Her collaborative approach informs critical participatory research with survivors of childhood sexual abuse, pregnant adolescents, women leaving abusive relationships, access to reproductive justice, and aboriginal communities. She teaches a range of courses from foundational through to upper level including courses in Adulthood, Aging, Qualitative Methodologies as well as Social Justice in Psychology.
Recent Publications
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Adolescents’ experiences of smoking and their transitions to motherhood
- Youth & Society, 2019
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Crossing troubled waters: Abortion in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Prince Edward Island
- Island Studies Press, 2018
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Anticipating the awakening: The lived experience of families of patients undergoing successful targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest
- Canadian Journal of Critical Care Nursing, 2018
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Exploring gender and elder abuse from the perspective of professionals
- Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, 2017
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The word nigger as racialized and nonracialized: A Foucauldian discourse analysis on the n-word in a Canadian society
- Journal of Undergraduate Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2017
Research Classification
- no classification
Research Interests
- Multifaceted nature of health and wellness across the lifespan and within diverse community settings
- Transitions in the prevention of chronic diseases
- How environments support health choices