Caroline Burnley (Lab Director)
Caroline obtained her PhD from Carleton University and has been a full-time faculty member in the Department of Psychology at VIU since 1995. Caroline is one of the founding directors of the Department’s Resilience Research Lab (RRL) which she founded with her colleague Ruth Kirson (retired). Her interests include understanding how resilience is exhibited within contextual frameworks, and supporting programs that foster and support resilience in children, youth and adults. She has been involved in resilience research at the local, national and international level with children, adolescents, adults and seniors. Caroline values the opportunity to teach her students through research and lab projects.
Stephanie McKenzie (Lab Director)
Stephanie obtained her MA at the University of Regina in Experimental and Applied Psychology and has been teaching in the Department of Psychology at Vancouver Island University since 2009. Her interests include the history and systems of psychology, theories of personhood, and emergent agency. Stephanie joined the Resilience Lab in 2017 in order to expand her theoretical and research interests into the field of resilience and support student research.
Brianne Knowles (Lab Manager)
Brianne is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. She is particularly interested in how resilience plays a crucial role in child development. Brianne aims to explore this topic further by completing an honors thesis during her undergraduate studies. After graduation, she plans to pursue graduate school in Child Psychology, with the goal of contributing to the well-being and development of children through clinical practice and research.