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Eran TalPrincipal InvestigatorDr. Eran Tal is Canada Research Chair in Data Ethics and an Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He specializes in philosophy of science, philosophy of measurement, and the ethical dimensions of data collection and use in the sciences. Until 2016 he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Eran received the Karl Popper Prize for a recent contribution to the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. He is currently preparing a monograph on measurement by invitation from Cambridge University Press.
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Skye BarbicCo-Principal InvestigatorDr. Skye Barbic is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and the Lead Scientist at Foundry. Skye brings 16 years of clinical experience as an occupational therapist working with young people with mental illness and substance use disorders. She is a member of the Federal Minister of Health’s Mental Health Advisory Council. Skye completed her PhD studies at McGill University and two post-doctoral fellowships at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health and the University of British Columbia where she applied her expertise in health outcomes measurement to the field of psychiatry and mental health rehabilitation. She has a strong interest in measurement implementation science and patient engagement and hopes that this project will link all aspects of this work together.
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Jeremy HobartProject advisorDr. Jeremy Hobart is a Consultant Neurologist at Derriford Hospital, and Professor at the Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. His clinical sub-specialist interest is the diagnosis and management of people with multiple sclerosis. Jeremy Hobart’s research interest is rating scales for measuring health outcomes. His training in health measurement and rating scale science has included a PhD in Psychometrics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Prof Donna Lamping), and post doctoral attachments to the University of Chicago (Prof Ben Wright) and, more recently, a secondment to Murdoch University Perth, Western Australia (Prof David Andrich) sponsored by a Royal Society of Medicine Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship. He has led the development of a number of rating scales, has published widely in this area, and holds over £7 million in research grants.
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Steve MathiasProject advisorDr. Steve Mathias is the Executive Director of Foundry. Steve is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who completed fellowships in addictions and concurrent disorders. He has worked at BC Children’s Hospital (Provincial Concurrent Disorders), the Maples (Crossroads and Bifrost) and St. Paul’s Hospital (Inner City Youth Program and Granville Youth Health Centre). He has also provided outreach for MCFD sites in Prince Rupert, Kamloops, Penticton and Quesnel.
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Nina KrackProject advisorNina Krack is Foundry's Knowledge Exchange & Mobilization Coordinator. Nina graduated as an RPN and education, and has proved to be a niche in her career ever since. Receiving a Certificate in Adult Education in the Health and Human Services from UBC in 2005 has further supported Nina to plan and facilitate knowledge and education with interdisciplinary clinical teams, community partners and the general public. Nina has worked as the Educator for the Fraser Early Psychosis Intervention Program for the past 14 years.
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Matthew SampleProject advisorMatthew Sample is a philosopher of science and technology. His research maps the interactions between ethical ideals, emerging technologies, and democratic governance. Formerly a fellow at the Harvard Program on Science, Technology and Society, he is currently studying the ethics of neural technology as a postdoctoral researcher (Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal; McGill University).
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Sebastian Rodriguez DuqueResearch AssistantSebastian Rodriguez Duque is a PhD student in Philosophy at McGill University. His research interests lie at the intersection of empirical issues in the philosophy of mind, agency, and ethics. He holds an MA in Philosophy from Carleton University, where his research focus was on automaticity; his thesis title was “The Moral Status of Automatic Behaviour”. Currently he is interested in issues in the measurement of conscious mental states and the relationship between conscious mental states and behavioural outputs.
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Kyle DewsnapResearch AssistantKyle Dewsnap is an MA student at UBC in Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methods. He holds a BASc in Cognitive Science from McGill University, where he wrote his honours thesis on the concept of validity and how it applies to psychometric clinical outcome assessments. Under the supervision of Dr. Bruno Zumbo, his current research focusses on evaluating the assumptions that underly commonly used psychometric models and procedures.
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Sophie OsieckiResearch AssistantSophie Osiecki holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (MPhil) and University College London (UCL) (BSc). She is currently a PhD student at McGill University, and intends to write her thesis on the philosophy of measurement in relation to psychometrics under the supervision of Dr Eran Tal.
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Darius ValeviciusResearch AssistantDarius Valevicius is a senior undergraduate in Cognitive Science at McGill University. He has spent the last year working in Dr. Mathieu Roy's experimental psychology lab, studying the interactions between music, emotion, and pain. His interests include psychiatry and philosophy of science, and he hopes to go on to complete an MD in psychiatry.
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Danielle CeloneResearch AssistantDanielle Celone is a fourth-year undergraduate in Linguistics and Philosophy at McGill University. Her interests include philosophy of mind, logic, and philosophy of language. In the future, she hopes to explore the areas of computational and cognitive linguistics.
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