Erin Barker, PhD
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- Full Professor, Psychology
- Undergraduate Program Director, Psychology
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Lifespan Developmental Psychology; Transition to Adulthood; Well_Being and Mental Health; Stress and Coping
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Biography
Education
Dr. Barker received her BA, Honours Psychology, from Nipissing University, in Ontario, MA in Developmental Psychology from the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, and PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Alberta. She completed post-doctoral fellowships at the US National Institutes of Health and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined the Department of Psychology at Concordia University in 2011.
Research
Dr. Barker directs the Lifespan Well-Being Laboratory. Her area of expertise is stress, coping, and well-being. In particular she studies how young people cope with stress encountered during the transition from adolescence to early adulthood and how their stress and coping impacts their well-being, mental health, and academic success.