A leader in educational research, the Faculty of Education unites a wide and diverse community of passionate researchers.

A leader in education research

The Faculty of Education is a national and international leader in education that unites a diverse community of passionate researchers, both professors and students. It is also an official French and English language supplier to the Ontario Ministry of Education.

For the past thirty years, graduate students have organized the annual Jean-Paul Dionne Research Symposium, an event that showcases and shares student research.

The Faculty publishes a peer-reviewed open online journal, the Education Review, and hosts two conferences as part of its Excellence in Education Lecture Series.

The Faculty is home to:

  • Laboratories, networks and Educational Research Units (ERU)
  • The holders of the Research Chair on Digital Thriving in Franco-Ontarian Communities, the Air Canada Professorship on Anti-racism, the Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention, and the University Research Chair on Inclusion, Mental Health and School Attendance
  • A training and research facility for counselling and psychotherapy
  • The Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services (CRECS), which collaborates in research, evaluation and training with organizations in the educational, social service and health sectors

Our researchers in the news

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Post-pandemic education: What have we learned?

It's been five years since the planet went into a near total shutdown. When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, …
Béatrice de Montigny

Sex ed in Canada: Equipping teachers to talk about consent

A passion for learning about child development led Béatrice de Montigny to a career as a schoolteacher. Now, after a decade in elementary classrooms, …
Professor Jess Whitley and members of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization seated around a table having a discussion.

Community-based research at uOttawa: Helping immigrant and refugee students stay in school

School absenteeism has surged post-pandemic. In one Ontario school board, the rate of elementary students missing 20 or more school days rose from 15%…

Research events

Dialogues sur la recherche
Apr 22

Virtual Data Collection and Integrity in Digital Qualitative Research

Join us for the next event in our Research Conversations Series entitled “Virtual Data Collection and Integrity in Digital Qualitative Research” with …

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Apr 23 to Apr 25

Association for Pedagogical Innovation and Professional Development International Conference 2025

Join us for the 2025 Association for Pedagogical Innovation and Professional Development (AIPDP) International Conference, themed Rethinking Education…

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May 12

Enseigner la grammaire par la littérature jeunesse dans une perspective plurilingue

(Note that the content of this page is available in French only.) Les classes d’aujourd’hui deviennent de plus en plus hétérogènes sur le plan linguis…