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  The department offers a Master's program at the graduate level in  Applied Computer Science and Society  with a focus on issues of technology and ethical/human/social aspects of computing. We offer courses in three core clusters that represent frontiers of the discipline. These are: i)  Information Representation, ii) Search and Management, Intelligent Systems,  and iii)  Systems Development.

  Areas of Research

  The research interests of our faculty include: algorithms and complexity, computational intelligence, computer vision, data warehousing, distributed systems, health information systems, web and document databases, granular computing, image processing, pattern recognition, software engineering, security and privacy, machine learning, multimedia computing, and wireless communication.   Information about specific research topics can be found on the  faculty  web pages.

  We offer both  thesis-based  and  course-based  programs. Our thesis-based program is designed to provide an excellent basis for a Ph.D. in computer science or other related fields. Our graduates in the course-based program are well-qualified for employment in industry, the public-sector, and academia.

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Pathway to Graduate Studies 2021

June 9, 2021

P2GS Scholars Gracie Grift and Manuel Candaele

UWinnipeg’s Pathway to Graduate Studies (P2GS) program returned this summer offering 10 Indigenous students research opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and five more Indigenous students the opportunity to instruct these students in statistics, biology, math, chemistry, and physics.

Throughout the four-week program that ran from May 3 – 28, 2021, students engaged in science education during the morning and participated in a paid research program under the supervision of UWinnipeg faculty members during the afternoon.

This program has been so eye-opening for me and has truly shown me that there are endless possibilities within science waiting to be discovered. Gracie Grift

The 10 students were selected based on their interest in STEM research and they spanned scientific disciplines from physics to kinesiology to environmental science.

“P2GS offers Indigenous undergraduate student’s opportunities to network with peers, senior STEM students on campus who act as program instructors, and with UWinnipeg faculty members,” said Dr. Mavis Reimer, Dean of Graduate Studies. “Many of them are inspired to move on to graduate programs in STEM subjects and many also become mentors to other students.”

P2GS Scholar Gracie Grift worked with Molgat-Seon (Department of Kinesiology & Applied Health). She enjoyed the experience studying airflow limitation in healthy adults.

“This program has been so eye-opening for me and has truly shown me that there are endless possibilities within science waiting to be discovered,” shared Grift. “I am extremely thankful for the program and its coordinators for providing us with this wonderful opportunity to explore our passion for science and to build our skills as researchers.”

Her fellow P2GS Scholar Manuel Candaele enjoyed the P2GS program because it introduced him to research and an expanded world of science. He worked with Dr. Caleb Hasler (Department of Biology).

“I am thankful NSERC provided funding that allowed me to participate,” said Candaele. ”I was able learn about sauger , a freshwater perciform fish aging through opercula and scales. This information may be used to move toward a more sustainable way of maintaining fisheries than the current standard.” 

To meet all the students and the researchers please visit P2GS 2021 .

The goal of the P2GS program is to support Indigenous students in the natural sciences and engineering (NSE) fields, introduce students to research opportunities, and build a network of peers and mentors across UWinnipeg as they progress through their undergraduate programs and eventually into graduate school in STEM fields.

This program is made possible thanks to a $21,429 grant funded through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) PromoScience program with matching contributions from UWinnipeg’s Faculty of Graduate Studies, Research Office, and Aboriginal Student Services Centre.

The University of Winnipeg gratefully acknowledges the funding received from the Government of Canada Research Support Fund in aid of research infrastructure.  Every year, the federal government invests in research excellence in the areas of health sciences, engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities through its three granting agencies. The Research Support Fund (RSF) reinforces this research investment by helping institutions ensure that their federally funded research projects are conducted in world-class facilities with the best equipment and administrative support available. Please visit  Research Support Fund .

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Psychology (PhD)

The PhD in Psychology offers a higher degree of specialization and more intensive training in research and application.

Program details

Admission requirements.

• Faculty of Arts • Faculty of Graduate Studies

• PhD in Psychology

Expected duration

• 3 or 4 years

Expected duration:  4+ years

The PhD program consists of coursework and a thesis component. 

Tuition and fees:  Tuition fees are charged for terms one and two and terms four and five. A continuing fee is paid for term three, term six and each subsequent term. (Refer to Graduate tuition and fees .)

Students must meet the minimum course requirements of the Faculty of Graduate Studies found in the Graduate Studies Supplementary Regulations .

Students must also meet the Departmental requirements. For Applied Behavior Analysis, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Developmental, and Social and Personality psychology, these include a minimum of 12 credit hours of coursework, including:

• 6 credit hours (two half courses) from the defined major
• 3 credit hours (one ancillary half course) from the Psychology graduate curriculum or 4000 level or above from another department
• 3 credit hours (one half course) in research design or analytic methods
• PSYC 7790: Dissertation proposal development (0 credit hours)

For Clinical, see Graduate Study in Psychology Appendix 2 .

For Quantitative, students will complete a minimum of 12 credit hours including:

• PSYC 7790 (0 credit hours)
• 6 credit hours (two half courses) in methods/design and/or quantitative methods
• 3 credit hours (one half course) ancillary that does not have a focus in quantitative methods
• 3 credit hours (one half course) taken within the Psychology Department at the 7000 level or higher, and will provide the student with additional breadth in psychology and depth in their research area of interest. These courses may or may not have a specific quantitative or methodology focus.

Additional requirements may be specified by a student's Advisory Committee or by some programs (e.g. the Clinical Psychology Training Program). 

Thesis requirements

• Completion of the candidacy examination
• Completion of the PSYC 7790: Thesis Proposal Development course
• Preparation and defense of the thesis proposal
• Preparation and defense of the thesis dissertation

Areas of specialization

Six areas of specialization are offered:

Applied behaviour analysis

Applied behaviour analysis (ABA) involves the systematic application of learning principles and techniques to assess and improve individuals’ covert and overt behaviours in order to help them function more fully in society. Training in the basic research on behaviour is also provided. 

Students will receive supervised training in practicing ABA with varied clientele, and especially with persons with developmental disabilities and/or autism. Our program offers a verified course sequence that has been approved by the Association for Behavior Analysis International. 

Brain and cognitive sciences

Study in this area includes research training in both neuroscience and cognitive psychology. The Department boasts a number of faculty members who investigate human psychology from a biological perspective, providing students with opportunities to investigate the physiological processes underlying learning, memory, neurological impairments, visual perception, and visuomotor control.

The Department's neuroscientists offer training in neuropsychology, developmental neuroscience, neurotoxicology and fMRI.

The Department's cognitive scientists provide expertise in the domains of language processes, visual and auditory perception and selective attention, and memory.

Students in the program will develop their ability to think critically and work independently, while still being able to successfully collaborate and work as part of a team. The course requirements in this area are structured around a flexible core curriculum that permits specialization and concentration of research during graduate training. Students may also collaborate with faculty from other areas in Psychology, and in related social, behavioural and biomedical sciences.

Clinical psychology

Our Clinical Psychology Training program follows the doctoral level, scientist-practitioner model. This model effectively trains clinical psychologists to prepare to meet the ever-changing needs of clinical service, research, education and administration.

Students are given a solid grounding in both the science of psychology and clinical practice. There is an early and continuous integration of science with service, theory with practice, and research training with clinical training.

Graduates become competent to apply psychological theories in conceptualizing individual and interpersonal problems and to develop effective interventions. Our graduates possess the talents, values, and commitment to play significant roles in the amelioration of contemporary social problems.

Developmental psychology

Developmental psychology is a cross-disciplinary research area with the goal of understanding how we as humans grow and change over time. It bridges across diverse fields of inquiry, such as cognition, linguistics, social psychology, neuroscience, and health psychology. Faculty in our area study an extensive scope of topics across both special populations and typically developing individuals, like the development of language and communication, environmental and situational factors influencing development, and cross-cultural differences in children’s experiences.

We also employ diverse methodologies, including in-lab measurements of infants’ perceptual responses, children’s behaviour in play-based tasks, electrophysiological brain and cardiovascular responses in children and their caregivers, biomarkers of hormonal and immune function, surveys, and analysis of audio recordings of young children’s everyday experiences. Graduates from our program are prepared for a wide range of careers in government, schools, business, and universities. Interested prospective graduate students should email individual developmental area faculty members regarding their plans for accepting new graduate students for the next admissions cycle. 

Quantitative

Members of the Quantitative Psychology group have expertise in a broad range of topics in measurement, research design and statistical analysis. Topics such as classical and robust estimation and testing, structural equation modeling, multilevel and hierarchical methodology, meta-analysis methodology, parametric and nonparametric regression analyses and diagnostic procedures, analyses of repeated or longitudinal data and simultaneous statistical inference are of particular research interest. Training in this area includes practical applications as well as theoretical analysis.

Social and personality psychology

Social and personality psychology seeks to understand how people think about, influence, and relate to one another, and how they strive to satisfy personal needs and goals in the wider world. 

Training in social and personality psychology at the advanced undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. levels emphasizes critical thinking and the scientific process from idea generation to disseminating knowledge. Such training occurs through a wide range of seminars, supervised research projects and thesis work, and regular research meetings of the social and personality faculty and graduate students, resulting in academic and applied careers. Students are encouraged to build their research portfolio by presenting at conferences, writing manuscripts for potential publication, and working on multiple lines of research.

Studying in the social and personality psychology area offers an opportunity to work with research experts on:

• Close relationships (e.g., romantic, friendship, relationship initiation)
• Health-related self-perceptions and behavior
• Motivation and emotion in achievement and health domains
• Individual differences (e.g., personal control, self-esteem, self-compassion, gender)
• Intergroup relations and social justice (e.g., reconciliation, prejudice, discrimination, social change, intergroup interaction)
• Scale construction
• Social perception (e.g., attributions, biases, empathy, perspective taking, concerns with social evaluation)

Sample course offerings

• PSYC 7082: Intervening with Children and Social Systems (3 credit hours)
• PSYC 7150: Readings in Autism Spectrum Disorders (3 credit hours)
• PSYC 7190: Social Psychology and Health (3 credit hours)
• PSYC 7310: Current Topics (3 credit hours)
• PSYC 7420: Multivariate Methods in Psychology (3 credit hours)
• PSYC 8050: Human Brain Functions (3 credit hours)
• PSYC 8230: Clinical Neuropsychology (3 credit hours)
• PSYC 8260: Human Organism Research Design (3 credit hours)

For full course descriptions, please visit the Academic Calendar .

Graduate advisors

Visit our  graduate student resources page  for more information on finding a graduate advisor and the diversity of our research interests.

The following are minimum requirements to be considered for entry into the program. Meeting these requirements does not guarantee acceptance into the program.

Admission decisions are based on the qualifications of the applicant as well as the ability of the Department of Psychology and the University of Manitoba to serve the applicant’s intended program of study and area of specialization.

To qualify for admission to the PhD in Psychology program, you must have a minimum of a MA degree in Psychology (or its equivalent).

In addition to the admission requirements described here, all applicants must meet the minimum admission and English language proficiency requirements of the Faculty of Graduate Studies .

How to apply

The PhD in Psychology has one application deadline per year, and applications are accepted for September entry only*. Applications must be completed online and include several parts:

• $100 application fee (non-refundable)
• Unofficial copies of transcripts
• Current CV**
• Statement of intent**
• Two letters of recommendation** (must be requested from within the application)
• Proof of English language proficiency , if required

*Current U of M Graduate Psychology students have two application deadlines per year, and applications are accepted for Fall and Winter entry. 

**Document requirements are waived if you have completed or will complete the Master's program in Psychology at the University of Manitoba before starting your PhD.

Please read the Faculty of Graduate Studies online application instructions before beginning your application.

Statement of intent requirements

The statement of intent is an opportunity to reflect on your interest in the field of psychology and to give the Admissions Committee a better idea of who you are.

It should include a description of your academic and professional goals and your personal background, a statement which should include your research interests (if applicable to your program) and a preference ordering of academic staff members with whom you might wish to work (i.e., to have supervise your research), 2-3 pages maximum (Statement of Intent).

Required Tell us why you want to be an academic or professional psychologist, including your research interests (if applicable to your program) and how your background (educational and otherwise) has prepared you for this undertaking.

Optional If you wish, you are invited to share as much or as little of your personal background as you feel appropriate within the given page limit. Your application will not be penalized if you choose not to disclose personal information, or for the content. Our program, consistent with the aims of our university and scientific and professional bodies, strives to include students of all backgrounds who reflect the diversity we see in society at large, and whose interest in psychology is informed by a wide range of experiences within and beyond formal academic training. If you choose to include personal information about your culture, race or ethnicity, religion, heritage, nationality, language, sexual orientation, physical and psychological functioning, gender, age, first-generation student and/or socio-economic status, it will be considered as additional context you have supplied for our understanding of your academic and professional achievements and goals.

Application deadlines

Applications are reviewed on a  committee basis . Application decisions are typically made in early to mid-February.

Application opens September 1.

Applicants must submit their online application with supporting documentation and application fee by the deadline date indicated.

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After working as an emergency doctor for nearly 25 years, Dr. Ken Atwal divides his retirement time between his family, the hockey rink, and working part-time at his medical clinic. The Collegiate graduate ('87) and UWinnipeg alumnus ('91) has lived in the Greater Toronto Area for much of his career, working for the University Health Network and Brampton Civic Hospital after finishing medical school.

“When my family immigrated to Canada from England, the Maples neighbourhood became my new home from the age of five till the moment I graduated from the Medical College at the University of Manitoba in 1995.” says Ken. “During my high school years, the Collegiate only offered grades 11 and 12—we had maybe 100 students enrolled during that time—and I was lucky enough to know just about everybody who went there. It gave the school a familial atmosphere, which helped compliment the diverse and supportive cast of people I met while studying there. I loved being treated like a university student as a young person at the time. Being able to explore and make use of the resources provided by the university made the experience truly enjoyable.”

In the fall of 2023, Ken worked with the University of Winnipeg Foundation to establish a new endowment fund that would help support student experience and success at the Collegiate. The Dr. Ken Atwal Collegiate Award is the sum of those efforts. Designed to recognize high academic achievement while also helping students in grade 11 cover their senior year tuition costs, Ken wanted the award to contribute to the academic journey of each recipient, saying that, “When I look back on my own career and the opportunities I’ve had to grow and travel over the years, I often think that journey started back at the Collegiate during those special two years. I want the students who receive this award to use the funding to develop their own interests and support their passions as they begin their own adventure after graduating.”

As an alumni and donor, Ken notes how important it is for members of the community to find something they feel passionate about at the Collegiate and do their best to support the institution through volunteering or giving back. “The mission at the Collegiate has always hinged on the school’s ability to remain accessible and open to newcomers. Support from donors and alumni help preserve this legacy which is 150 years in the making. The role our space plays in the downtown neighbourhood and the quality of the education that was provided to me and every Collegiate student who has enrolled since then speaks volumes about the work that goes on at Wesley Hall.”

While most of his family have since moved to Southern Ontario, Ken continues to visit his hometown on occasion and recently toured the campus with his brother and fellow Collegiate alumni, Jas, in 2023.

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“Serious issues” with a critical witness’s availability arose and led the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office to ask on Tuesday that charges be dismissed against Ernest Weatherspoon, the DA said, without elaborating, in a news release.

Thomas Rolfes, of St. Louis, had come back to the city on a Mother’s Day weekend to meet with his fiancée and scout wedding venues. He was found May 7, 2016, shot to death at an intersection after leaving a bar.

Weatherspoon, 46, was arrested and indicted in December 2021 by a special grand jury on one count each of armed robbery and second-degree murder.

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