Developmental Psychology
Warren O. Eaton

Graduate Study and Research
with Warren Eaton

Supervisory Philosophy

• My goal is to train students for academic and research careers
• I enjoy working closely with a small number of graduate students
• An apprenticeship model guides my supervision of Master's students
• Doctoral students are given considerable latitude to pursue their own interests

I assume that students will be co-authors of papers about shared projects

Graduate Research Position available

For an entering student, beginning September, 2005

• Involvement in all aspects of the Milestones Study, a multi-year longitudinal study of developmental milestones in infancy and early childhood
  • Visits to homes of participating infants
• Involvement in new measure development and testing
• Data analysis experience with Access, Excel, SAS
• Manuscript preparation and publication-process experience
  

Graduate Researcher Qualifications

• BA or BSc (Honours degree or its equivalent)
• Background in Psychology, Human Development, or closely related discipline
• GRE General and Subject Tests
  

Funding for position depends on grant approval (March 2005 decision)

Financial Support

Past and current students have been supported by fellowships and by teaching and research assistantships

• Grant proposals under review would fund an incoming student
  • Funding decisions will be known by March, 2005
• C$12,000 per year for research assistantship
• Additional teaching assistantship

• Darren Campbell, 2004 PhD, now a Manitoba Health Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
  E-mail: dcampb@cc.umanitoba.ca.
  http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dcampb/
  
• Nancy McKeen, 2000 PhD, now a Research Associate, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, Canada.
  E-mail: Nancy_McKeen@cpe.umanitoba.ca.
  http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~ummckeen/
• Gen Mitsutake, 2001 MA, now a research student in a hospital in Yokohama, Japan. Email: gmitsutake@hotmail.com.
• Kimberly Saudino, 1992 Ph.D., now Associate Professor of Psychology, Boston University, Boston. E-mail: ksaudino@bu.edu.
  http://www.bu.edu/psych/faculty/saudino/
• Judy Chipperfield, 1989 PhD, now Professor of Psychology and Physical Education, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
  E-mail: chipper@ms.umanitoba.ca.
  http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/physed/research/
• Kathryn Ritchot, 2005 Ph.D, now a clinical psychologist in private practice, Winnipeg, Canada. E-mail: kathryn.ritchot@shaw.ca

Current Graduate Students

• Jen Bodnarchuk, 2001 MA, doctoral student working on age of crawling attainment as a mediator between breatfeeding and cognitive ability.
  E-mail: Jen_Bodnarchuk@umanitoba.ca.

Recent Honours Student Alumni

• Denée Ryz, 2004 BSc(Hons.), now working on the Milestones Study and taking courses, E-mail: denee11@hotmail.com.
• Kara Bazalewski, 2003 BA (Hons.), now establishing a home day care centre. E-mail: karabaz81@yahoo.ca.
• Meghan Duncan, 2003 BSc (Hons.), now a Clinical Trials Research Coordinator.
  E-mail: mdmr@hotmail.com.
• Cori Syrnyk, 2003 BSc(Hons.). now a doctoral student, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
  E-mail: csyrnyk@yahoo.co.uk.

Current Honours Students

• Carolyn Barg, expected 2005 BA (Hons.), now working on a study of parent diary reports of infant joint attention.
  Email: c_barg58@hotmail.com.
• Amy de Jaeger , expected 2005 BA (Hons.), now working on a study of parent diary reports of infant joint attention.
  Email: umdejae1@cc.umanitoba.ca.