Isabelle Archambault

Deputy Director
Full professor

Affiliations

  • School of Psychoeducation - Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • Canada Research Chair on School, Child Well-Being, and Educational Success
  • Myriagone- Mc Connell-UdM Chair in Youth Knowledge Mobilization
  • University Institute for Youth in Difficulty
  • School environment research group (SERG)

Research expertise

  • Learning and educational success of children and adolescents with mental health problems or special needs (ADHD, opposition, anxiety, dropouts, etc.)
  • Behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement of young people in the school context
  • School experience and needs of students in ethnocultural diversity
  • Equitable and inclusive prevention, intervention, and practices
  • Knowledge mobilization

Main research projects

  • The adaptation of newly arrived immigrant youth: The contribution of life circumstances pre- and post-migration. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), ($222,831) 2019-2022. Role: PI.
  • Implementation of summer language camps for newcomer youth (2019-2021-$51,752). Research contract - Réseau Réussite Montréal. Role: PI.
  • The impact of the intercultural climate of institutions on the educational success of students from immigrant backgrounds. Grant from the Fonds de Recherches du Québec- Société et Culture. Perseverance and Academic Success Concerted Action Program ($190,411), 2016-2020. Role: PI.
  • Challenges to the vulnerable child in the transitions from preschool to grade school in a pregnancy cohort. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR: 1 513 711$), 2016-2021. Principal researchers: J. Séguin & S. Parent. Role: co-investigator.
  • The effect of school transitions on the behavioral, affective, and cognitive engagement of students in disadvantaged environments. Research grant from the Fonds de Recherches du Québec- Société et Culture (150 000$), 2014-2018. Role: PI.

Approaches used

  • Quiz
  • Psychometric tests
  • Observation grids
  • Quantitative methods

Keywords

Academic learning, Behavioural, emotional and cognitive engagement, Mental health, Ethnocultural diversity, Prevention and intervention

isabelle.archambault@umontreal.ca

École de psychoéducation - Faculté des Arts et Sciences

Chaire de Recherche du Canada sur l’École, le Bien-être et la Réussite Éducative des Enfants / Canada Research Chair on School, Child Well-Being and Educational Success

Myriagone- Chaire Mc Connell-UdM en mobilisation des connaissances jeunesse 

Institut universitaire Jeunes en difficultés 

Groupe de recherche sur les environnements scolaires (GRES) 

Teams

Keywords

This content has been updated on 26 January 2024 at 11 h 30 min.