Current Chair of the Psychology Dept.
Contact Information
Office: B221-F
Email: heather_schmidt@cbu.ca
Phone: (902) 563-1217
Fax: (902) 563-1218
Mailing address:
Department of Psychology,
Cape Breton University,
PO Box 5300, 1250 Grand Lake Road,
Sydney, NS B1P 6L2,
Biography
Heather Schmidt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cape Breton University. She completed her Honours B.A. in psychology at the University of Victoria (Victoria, B.C.) and then her M.A. & Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology at York University (Toronto, ON) in 2009. From 2007 to 2009 she was employed as a researcher at a community-based research institute (NORDIK) at Algoma University in Northern Ontario, where she specialized in collaborative projects with the 7 local Anishinaabek First Nations. She also taught courses at Algoma University such as Qualitative Methods, Intro Statistics, Psychology of Social Issues & Personality Psychology. She joined the faculty at Cape Breton University in July 2009.
Courses Taught
– Introduction to Psychology
– PSYC2501: Foundations of Personality Psychology
– PSYC2504: Indigenous People’s Psychology
– PSYC3101: Qualitative Methods in Psychology
– PSYC3304: Community Psychology
– PSYC4101: History of Psychology
