Principal Investigators

Harvey Krahn is a sociologist who has taught and conducted research at the University of Alberta since 1983. Along with school-work transitions, he continues to conduct research on immigration-related issues, and political attitudes and behaviours. http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/sociology/krahn.cfm

Graham S. Lowe (on leave from his Sociology professorship at the University of Alberta) runs a workplace research and consulting firm, The Graham Lowe Group.
http://www.grahamlowe.ca

Other Researchers

Erin Barker is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta, working under the supervision of Dr. Nancy Galambos. For her dissertation she will investigate predictors of daily fluctuations in stress, affect, and health and risk behaviours among first-year students at the University of Alberta.
ebarker@ualberta.ca

Michelle Brady is a Phd student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. Her current research interests include income support policy, the construction of identity through social programs, and single parenthood. She is currently conducting a comparative qualitative longitudinal study of single mothers in Alberta and Perth, Western Australia. Contact her by email or through the Sociology Department at the University of Alberta.

Rachel Campbell is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include the career decision making, retention and advancement of women in non-traditional fields, gendered uses of technology, and the social construction of identity.
rachelc@ualberta.ca

Nancy Galambos is a psychologist who teaches and conducts research at the University of Alberta. Her primary research interests are in adolescent development and the transition to adulthood. She is currently conducting investigations of the health and risk behaviours, psychosocial maturity, and social relationships of adolescents and young adults. http://www.ualberta.ca/~galambos/nancyweb.html


Timothy F. Hartnagel is a criminologist in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He was a co-principal investigator in the first school-work transition study (the Class of 1985) and has analyzed data on crime and drug use collected in this study.
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/sociology/hartnagel.cfm

Navjot Lamba completed her PHD in Sociology at the University of Alberta in 2002. Her dissertation examined the role of social capital in the re-settlement experiences of refugees who settled in Alberta. She is currently completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta.
nlamba@ualberta.ca

Wolfgang Lehmann completed his PHD in Sociology at the University of Alberta in 2003. His dissertation compared the school-work transition experiences of youth apprentices and academic-stream high school students in Alberta and Germany. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario.
http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/sociology/lehmann.html

Julian Tanner is a sociologist at the University of Toronto. He was a co-principal investigator in the first school-work transition study (the Class of 1985), and was the lead researcher on the study of high school dropouts completed in 1985. http://www.utoronto.ca/sociology/faculty/tanner.html

Alison Taylor teaches and conducts research in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research interests are in the sociology of education, educational governance and politics, and policy-making processes in education.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~ataylor/index.htm

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