EVENT: Raine Lecture - Professor Michael Chandler

Professor Chandler is a developmental psychologist, Professor Emeritus, and Distinguished CIHR Investigator working in the Department of Psychology at the The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His research interests include socio-cognitive development, young people’s developing ‘theories-of-mind’ and the cross-cultural study of the process of identity formation. His ongoing program of research explores the role that culture plays in setting the course of identity development by shaping young people's emerging sense of ownership of their personal and cultural past, and their commitment to their own and their community's future wellbeing. He is deeply involved in the study of Canada’s Aboriginal youth, and how their struggles to achieve a sense of coherent personal and cultural identity impact on a range of health outcomes and other measures of socio-emotional wellbeing. In particular, he has studied the phenomena of youth suicide as it manifests itself in Canada’s First Nations youth, and (internationally) among other Indigenous groups.