Dr. Jeremy Stewart

Lab director

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Dr. Jeremy Stewart has devoted his career to understanding the development and progression of mental health disorders in adolescents and young adults. Using a multi-modal approach grounded in clinical psychological science and neuroscience methods, he aims to uncover new insights regarding the cognitive, emotional, and behavioural processes that contribute to psychopathology in youth. Jeremy strives to translate his findings to enhance assessment and interventions for young people coping with mental illness, and ultimately, to improve well-being.

Jeremy’s most recent work is geared to understanding the onset and worsening of suicidal thoughts and behaviours, particularly. Suicide science faces many challenges. Among them is the fact that most people who think seriously about suicide will not make attempts, and most strong predictors of suicidal thoughts (e.g., depression) tell us little about who is most likely to act on these thoughts. Consequently, guided by a developmental psychopathology framework, Jeremy’s research aims to identify risk factors that cut across diagnostic boundaries that may contribute to the escalation from suicidal thoughts to actions. As this transition is a pivotal target for suicide prevention, Jeremy hopes that his findings will contribute to curbing unnecessary and preventable loss of life.

Presently, Jeremy is appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. His research team—the Queen’s Emotions and Risky Behaviours in Youth (QuERBY) Laboratory—is a dynamic group of junior scientists committed to improving the safety and well-being of Canadian youth through leading-edge research; local (e.g., campus), provincial, and national knowledge translation; and advocacy. Overall, Jeremy is privileged to have such an inclusive, professional, and hard-working lab who share his enthusiasm for psychological science!

Ashley Filion

B. Sc. (Psychology)

LAB COORDINATOR

Ashley joined the QuERBY Lab in 2020 as a directed lab student. The following summer, she was awarded the Undergraduate Student Summer Research Fellowship (USSRF) where she analyzed affective responses to visual stimuli depicting violent and/or risky behaviours from our study VISUAL2. In September 2022, she started her position as the lab coordinator. She is not only excited to be able to continue to learn about suicide science in this position, but to also build a supportive and inclusive lab environment for other people to learn.

Natasha Drobotenko [cv]

Natasha is a second-year PhD student in the Clinical Psychology program. For her master’s thesis, she investigated suicide risk among people with diverse gender identities and expressions. Her research interests include assessing risk factors for suicidal behaviour and non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents and young adults, with a focus on cognitive processes, emotion regulation, and adverse childhood events.

Neha Parvez [cv]

Neha is a first-year PhD student in the Clinical Psychology program. She completed her M.A. in clinical psychology from Columbia University’s Teachers College in 2021. Her research interests broadly pertain to the study of affective dynamics and emotion regulation in suicidal and self-injurious adolescents.

Emilia Sherifi
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Emilia is a second-year PhD student in the Clinical Psychology program. She is interested in understanding the transition between thinking about suicide and engaging in suicidal behaviour among adolescents and young adults, with a focus on emotion regulation and impulsivity. 

Owen Hicks 2018-2020
Lindsay Simourd 2018-2020
Reem Atallah 2019-2020
Jasmine Chananna 2019-2020  
Zainab Hassan 2019-2022 
Grace Rowed 2020-2022 
Hannah Del Gatto 2021-2022  
India Johnson 2022 
Andrea Vandyk 2023

Melodi Begetis 2018-2020 
Owen Hicks 2018-2020
Kayleigh Casmey 2018-2021  
Anjalika Khanna Roy 2019-2022 
Davina Gadkar 2020-2022
Jessica Mahadeo 2020-2023 
Matthew Katzman 2021-2022
Laura Abbatangelo 2022-2023