Dr. Bonnie Leadbeater, PhD
Bonnie Leadbeater has been a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria, since 1997, after spending nine years as Faculty at Yale University. She has been the Director of the Youth and Society Research Group since its inception, and in the spring of 2005 was appointed as Co-Director of the Child and Youth Health Research Network. She is actively involved in research and community work involving at-risk youth, injury prevention in children and youth and community-university research alliances.
Leadbeater holds degrees in Nursing (University of Ottawa, 1972) Educational Psychology (University of Ottawa, 1978), and Developmental Psychology (Columbia University, New York, 1986). She also has practical experience as a staff nurse in obstetrics and pediatrics, in program development for teenage mothers (Adolescent Health Centre, Mt. Sinai University, 1985), and more recently as a psychotherapist (Yale Child Guidance Clinic, 1994-1997 and in private practice).
She has received numerous academic and community awards including the Society for Research on Adolescence Social Policy Best Book Award for her publication Growing Up Fast: Transitions to Early Adulthood for Inner City Adolescent Mothers. Her research includes work on peer victimization, community-university alliances for health research and research ethics in community-based and participatory action research.
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