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 Educational 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 Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention, the Air Canada Professorship on Anti-racism, the Research chair on Digital Thriving in Franco-Ontarian Communities, and the Research Chair in Medical Pedagogy at the Institut du Savoir Montfort
  • A community counselling service
  • 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

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, …
Timothy J. Stanley

Timothy J. Stanley honoured for contributions to anti-racism education, academic service

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Timothy J. Stanley, recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Contribution Award from the Canadian History of Educatio…
Alice Levasseur

New professor brings expertise in school workplace wellness, teacher motivation and retention

“I've been immersed in the world of education since I was young,” says Alice Levasseur, a new professor in the University of Ottawa Faculty of Educati…

Research events

Hands manipulating an atom
Mar 3

Open science and the influence of French-language research

We invite you to join us for the Open science and the influence of French-language research workshop led by Megan Cotnam-Kappel and Catherine Lachaîne…

The word 'Girls' engraved above an old door at the entrance to stone building.
Mar 4

Book launch - Women, Gender, and History Education: Perspectives from Ontario and Quebec

Join us on March 4 from 5 to 7 PM for the launch of the new book Women, Gender, and History Education: Perspectives from Ontario and Quebec, edited by…

Multicultural students around a desk
Mar 5

Institutional dynamics and the changing student population in francophone contexts

The Observatoire sur l'éducation en contexte linguistique minoritaire in collaboration with the Collège des chaires de recherche sur le monde francoph…