Dr. Fuschia M. Sirois
Dr. Sirois is a Professor in the Psychology Department at Bishop's University, and a Canada Research Chair in Health and Well-being. Dr. Sirois is also the coordinator of the mutlidisciplinary Psychological Health and Well-being Research Cluster at Bishop's Unviersity. She obtained an Honors BA in Psychology from the University of Ottawa, and her MA and PhD in Social Psychology from Carleton University. She also holds an Honors BSc in Biochemistry/Nutrition from the University of Ottawa, and she completed the first year of an Applied BA in the Food, Nutrition, Consumer and Family Studies program at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Dr. Sirois' research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals such as Health Psychology, Social Science and Medicine, Quality of Life Research, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Rehabilitation Psychology. She has presented numerous papers at peer-reviewed professional conferences, and is the co-author of the second Canadian editon of Shelley Taylor's Health Psychology textbook.
Dr. Sirois' research is aimed at understanding the role of self-regulation, broadly defined, in health and well-being. Her current research is focused on the temporal aspects of self-regulation and the subsequent implications for health and well-being, with the aim of understanding how to promote temporal continuity during goal pursuit. She has worked with a number of collaborators in Psychology and other disciplines. For more information about specific research interests please visit the Research pages.
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