Bio
Heather Brittain is a Vanier Scholar who is completing her doctoral degree in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa in Tracy Vaillancourt’s Brain and Behaviour Laboratory. Heather’s research is focused on how the experience of childhood adversity, such as being the victim of peer abuse, impacts academic functioning and how these experiences relate to functional outcomes during adulthood, such as postsecondary educational success and job stability for women and men.