Eden-Raye lukacik - M.SC. 2016, PH.D., 2022

PhD Dissertation: Devil is in the Details? The Influence of Asynchronous Video Interview Design on Applicant Interview Impression Management, Reactions, and Evaluations

Master’s Thesis: Exploring the Influence of Leadership on Supervisor and Coworker-Targeted Impression Management

Eden-Raye (Raye) Lukacik is an assistant professor of Industrial-Organizational psychology at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research interests include recruitment and selection, the technology used in these processes, as well as self-presentation including response distortion, faking, and impression management.

 

Timothy Wingate - M.SC. 2017, PH.D., 2022

PhD Dissertation: Person-Environment Fit in the Employment Interview: Interview Focus, Design, and Validity

Master’s Thesis: Liar at First Sight? Impressions and Interviewer Judgements, Attributions, and False Perceptions of Faking

Timothy is an Assistant Professor of OB/HRM at Wilfrid Laurier University (Lazaridis School of Business). He researches and teaches courses on topics related to organizational behaviour and human resource management. His main areas of focus are personnel selection strategies, person perception, and various forms of work performance.

 

Stephanie Law - PH.D., 2021

PhD Dissertation: Interview Impression Management: Examining the use, effectiveness, and longitudinal relationships

Stephanie is an Employee Experience Researcher at Shopify, leveraging research to help shape the future of work. Her team uses a human-centered approach to help build and scale high performance programs and teams. She manages research across the employee lifecycle, providing key insights to empower Talent teams and leaders across Shopify to make data-informed decisions.

 

Clara Lee - M.Sc., 2016, Ph.d., 2021

PhD Dissertation: Leadership and the Stereotype Content Model: Examining Gender and Ethnicity

Master’s Thesis: Honesty-Humility and the Overclaiming Technique

Clara is a research analyst on the Organizational Health Team at Statistics Canada. Her team strives to develop and assist in the implementation of a data-driven organizational health strategy. This entails designing tools to assess the work environment and employee psychological health and safety, and using advanced statistics techniques to determine key psychosocial workplace factors driving health at Statistics Canada. Her team also designs interventions to enhance areas of strength and address challenges at various levels of the organization. In addition to sharing their findings with other federal organizations and agencies, the Organizational Health Team works towards contributing to the broader scientific literature.

 

Naomi Lee - M.Sc., 2018

Master’s Thesis: Personalized and Socialized Need for Power: Scale Construction and Validation

After graduating with an MSc in I-O Psychology, Naomi worked as a Research Consultant at NRG Research Group in Calgary for the first three years of her career. While there, she conducted applied quantitative and qualitative research on a broad range of topics within the fields of organizational and market research.

She is now working at Symend as an applied Behavioural Scientist. In her current role, she designs engagement strategies that drive customer satisfaction and facilitate positive finance-related behavioural change. She identifies and executes strategy changes that continuously increase performance on KPIs while further enhancing the customer experience.