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Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Criminology

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1801)
Home: 613-722-3980
E-mail: Ronald-Frans.Melchers@uOttawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

Home Telephone

Research information:

I'm currently examining the role and treatment of information in public policy and operations in criminal justice: statistics, databases, registries, administrative operational data, research results etc. This information arises and is used as evidence in investigations and decisions of a wide range of police, judicial and correctional institutions. I am particulary interested in the validity and reliability of information and of procedures for its use, as well as implications for rights to privacy.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Aboriginal criminality
• Aboriginal legal issues
• Applied statistics
• Community policing
• Courts
• Crime
• Crime in Canada
• Crime prevention
• Criminal law
• Data mining
• Data security
• Evaluation
• Justice
• Knowledge bases
• Logic
• National policy
• Not-for-profit organizations
• Numerical methods
• Ontario politics
• Performance measurement
• Performance measures
• Police
• Poverty
• Privatization
• Public administration
• Research methods
• Sentencing
• Social change
• Social politics
• Social services
• Statistics
• Statistics
• Statistics
• Urban renewal
• Work

Language preference:

English and French , néerlandais / Dutch

President/CEO uOttawa Institute of Mental Health Research
Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of Psychology

Contact information:

Office: 613-722-6521 (6551)
E-mail: merali@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

 

Our first line of work focuses around the brain circuits involved in Depression.  In particular, Our research focuses on determining how stressors influence brain functioning and behavior. We are attempting to identify factors (genetic, neurochemical & psychosocial) that render individuals vulnerable to mental illness and those factors that impart resiliency. Our second line of research focuses on identifying plant derived medications that may attenuate stress, anxiety and depressive responses.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Animal physiology
• Anxiety disorders
• Behaviour
• Biopharmaceutical science
• Brain injury
• Cognition
• Depression
• Diseases
• Drugs
• Health research
• International health
• Mental health
• Ontario politics
• Pharmacology
• Psychiatry
• Research methods
• Stress

Language preference:

English only