Last day to register is coming up on Friday May 8, 2026! Come and joins us for this exciting evidence based policing and police psychology conference! Register to get your spot! QR code to register is on the flyer below.
Centre for Policing and Criminal Justice Research 🇨🇦
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Dr. Mary Ann Campbell Full Professor | Department of Psychology Director | Centre for Policing and Criminal Justice Research University of New Brunswick, Saint John Campus Canada
Congratulations to Erin Smith on successfully defunding their Master's thesis in Psychology at University of New Brunswick 👏👏👏
Come join us for a conference on police research and practice on May 14, 2026 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada! Registration info can be found at site.pheedloop.com/event/Evidence… or use the QR link in the flyer below.
Police conference in May 2026 - advancing policing practices (e.g. interviewing, IPV, MH calls) and police workplace (sources of stress, organizational justice, psychological health in the workspace). Great learning for officers, police leaders, and affiliated professionals!
@discoverunb.bsky.social has an Assistant Teaching Professor position (3 year contract) available for in cognitive or social psychology in my department. See the link below for more info www.unb.ca/hr/_assets/d...
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Thank you to all who serve in the Canadian Armed Forces, including my little brother (Royal Canadian Navy) 🇨🇦🍁
Spoke to CBC On the Go about arsonists in reaction to community suspension that one caused wild fires in Newfoundland (I'm after the gentleman who shares his observations). www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Had a conversation about Mental health courts with CBC information morning this morning in Fredericton and in Moncton, in response to the new Addiction and Mental Health Court opening up in March 2026 in Moncton, NB. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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UNB-Saint John Psychology students representing at the Canadian Psychological Association annual convention in St. John's, Newfoundland @discoverunb.bsky.social
Thank you to Kennebecasis Regional Police Force for being a wonderful partner for this research.
Great job by my student research team delivering our symposium on police crisis Intervention competencies and impact on call outcomes today at the 2025 annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association in St. John's, NL 👏 Daniel McLaughlin, Erin Smith, & Olivia Reilly!
Great job by my student research team delivering our symposium on police crisis Intervention competencies and impact on call outcomes today at the 2025 annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association in St. John's, NL 👏 Daniel McLaughlin, Erin Smith, & Olivia Reilly!
Great interview with the new Chief of Kennebecasis Regional police force in New Brunswick. Valuing transparency and accountability in his leadership vision. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
At day 2 of the CIPSRT conference for Thriving in Public Safety : Research in Action
Informative stuff at thr 2025 CIPSRT conference for public safety employee psychological health this week in Regina, SK.
Congratulations to Olivia Reilly defending her MA thesis in Psychology UNB SaintJohn on crisis intervention (CI) competencies used by police officers (coded from BWCs). Take home: force was uncommon & most officers displayed moderate to high quality CI competencies.
If only a full psychological health assessment was part of this comprehensive evaluation 🤔
Trump is ‘fully fit’ to serve as commander in chief, his doctor says after recent physical
We don't want that kind of closed minded thinking in Canada. Research is the quest for knowledge and understanding using the scientific method. Politics don't set the agenda!
“I think this is the first time a Cdn poli has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics. It could be a very terrible time for us.” Sound familiar? In Cdn election, Poilievre vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding www.science.org/content/arti...
In the new Psynopsis: First Responders and Other Public Safety Personnel – Psychological impacts of Service 'Supporting the mental health of serving and former officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police by understanding their trauma exposures' - Lefurgey & MacEachern buff.ly/WpW6o4j
Congratulations to Denika Widmer, one of our graduate students, on the successful defense of her master's thesis! 👏 Expertly executed!
Pierre Poilievre’s plan to shut down our public broadcaster is now so unpopular, he’s afraid to talk about it! Keep spreading the word about why we must stop his attempt to shut down the CBC. Encourage friends and family to join us: forwardcanada.ca/protectcbc www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Why Pierre Poilievre has suddenly gone silent on defunding the CBC
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has not mentioned his promise to gut the CBC at any of his press conferences or policy announcements since the election campaign started.
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Congratulations to Chief Mike Young on his new appointment as Chief of Police for the Kennebecasis Regional Police Force! 👏 And a happy soon retirement to outgoing Chief Steve Gourdeau!
Upcoming Atlantic Canadian conference on the topic of first responder mental health. I'm at another conference that day, but would otherwise attend! Check it out if you work with or in a first responder profession. acfrmh.ca?fbclid=IwZXh...
Atlantic Canada Mental Health Conference | Wounded Warriors Canada
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When One Size Doesn’t Fit All… Uncovering individual and contextual differences in experimental outcomes. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... Interesting APS Observer piece… Do you see this play out in your area of Psychology?
When One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Many psychological scientists are now calling for a “heterogeneity revolution,” focused on uncovering individual and contextual differences in experimental outcomes.
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Today's youth use videos to learn, so we need to explore how they judge its quality. Cool study showing relations between better judgments & age, self-efficacy, intellectual humility, & epistemic cognition. More research needed, of course. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
A good book to understand the experience of a first responder and the psychological impact of police work and recovery by Lance Valcour - If They Only Knew: A Cop's Journey with Addiction and Mental Health a.co/d/9f36FB6 (most profits go to support services, like Badge of Life Canada)
If They Only Knew: A Cop's Journey with Addiction and Mental Health
If They Only Knew: A Cop's Journey with Addiction and Mental Health: Valcour, Lance: 9781988344492: Books - Amazon.ca
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www.iqscorner.com/2025/03/rese... #neuropsychology #cognition #schoolpsychology #executivefunction #assessment #achievement
Research Byte: Performance- and report-based measures of #executivefunction as predictors of children’s #academic skills - #neuropsychology #schoolpsychology
DeCamp, C., Alfonso, S. V., & Lonigan, C. J. (2025). Performance- and report-based measures of executive function as predictors of children’...
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Our April edition www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... Please share your favourite articles / interviews! #PsySciSky
We are very pleased to see one of our favourite evidence-based policing research collaborators move up the ranks to become the Chief of Police for the Kennebecasis Regional Police Force ! Congratulations Chief Mike Young 👏