Laboratory Director

Dr. Chivers is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the department of Psychology at Queen’s University.  She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, in 2003 and completed her clinical residency at theCentre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada.  Between 2003 and 2007, Dr. Chivers completed post-doctoral fellowships at CAMH, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a Women's Health Scholar Award from the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Chivers joined the Psychology faculty at Queen’s University in the spring of 2009 as a Queen's National Scholar. She serves on the editorial boards for the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Sex Research, and the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.  Though she doesn’t currently maintain a private practice, Dr. Chivers’ clinical work has focused on treatment of sexual functioning problems, gender and sexual identity concerns, dysregulated sexual behaviours (sexual addiction), and atypical sexual interests. Meredith's CV.

Kelly D. Suschinsky, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Suschinsky received her undergraduate degree (BA Honous, Psychology) from the University of Saskatchewan and recently completed her PhD in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge under the supervision of Dr. Martin Lalumière. Her graduate research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and she is currently funded by Queen’s University as a Senate Advisory Research Council postdoctoral fellow. Her research interests involve gender differences in sexual arousal patterns, the relationship between sexual functioning and sexual arousal patterns, and the assessment of sexual preferences and interests. Kelly's CV.

Samantha Dawson, M.Sc.

PhD Candidate

Sam is a first year PhD student in the Clinical Psychology program. She received her undergraduate (BA, Honours, Psychology) and graduate (MSc, Psychology) degrees from the University of Lethbridge, under the supervision of Dr. Martin Lalumiere.  As an undergraduate, Sam explored the specificity of women's sexual fantasies and sexual interests across the menstrual cycle.  More recently, she investigated the habituation of sexual responses in men and women.  Sam is interested in continuing her research on human sexual response patterns to explore whether gender differences in laboratory studies of sexual arousal can be detected using other methodologies, such as eyetracking. Sam's CV.

Amanda Timmers, B.A.H.

 M.Sc. Candidate (Clinical Psychology) 

ResearchCoordinator

Amanda is a second year MSc student in Clinical Psychology and research coordinator in the Sagelab since 2010. Amanda completed her honour’s thesis in the Sagelab in 2010, examining the relationship between sociosexuality and patterns of sexual response in women. Amanda's CV.

Jackie S. Huberman, B.Sc.

M.Sc. Candidate (Clinical Psychology)

Jackie is a Clinical Psychology Master’s student and intends to pursue a PhD. She became fascinated by the study of human sexuality toward the end of her undergraduate degree (B.Sc. Honours, Psychology), which she completed at Queen’s University (2011). Jackie has worked as a research coordinator in Dr. Binik’s Lab for the Biopsychosocial Study of Sexuality (McGill University)as a research assistant in the SageLab, and as a volunteer at the Queen’s Sexual Health Resource Center. For her Master’s thesis, Jackie will use thermal imaging to evaluate gender differences in sexual response patterns.

 Jackie's CV.