Full-time Grad Program Assistants Have Moved to the Dean's Office

Full-time GPAs have moved to the Dean’s Office (Macdonald Institute Building). While the GPAs are physically moving, their roles remain committed to assisting graduate students and departments. There will still be a GPA point person for each department, and you can still reach out to that person virtually (email or teams) and in-person. If your GPA is unavailable or on vacation, anyone in the GPA team can also help.  

• Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy: 
  • Heather Douglas - ccjpgrad@uoguelph.ca 
  • Office: MacKinnon Building 6th Floor 
• Family Relations and Applied Nutrition: 
  • Shauna Porter - fran.graduate@uoguelph.ca 
  • Office: MacDonald Institute Building 137 
• Geography, Environment and Geomatics: 
  • Nance Grieve - geograd@uoguelph.ca  
  • Office: MacDonald Institute Building 151
• International Development Studies (Collaborative Specialization): 
  • Daphne Campomanes – ids@uoguelph.ca
  • Office: MacKinnon Building 7th Floor 
• Social Practice and Transformational Change: 
  • Faythe Van Esch – sopr@uoguelph.ca
  • Office: Main Office H.L. Hutt Building  
• Sociology and Anthropology: 
  • Shauna Porter - soangrad@uoguelph.ca  
  • Office: MacDonald Institute Building 137 
• Political Science: 
  • Renee Tavascia - pols.graduate@uoguelph.ca  
  • Office: MacDonald Institute Building 147 
• Psychology: 
  • Duska Males - psycgpa@uoguelph.ca  
  • Office: MacDonald Institute Building 149 

When should I contact or visit my GPA? 

The GPAs, the Assistant Manager, Graduate Operations, and the other members of the Associate Dean Research & Graduate Studies Office are here to help graduate students and departments! If you need help navigating graduate studies, reach out to us! If the GPAs are unable to support, they will provide a warm introduction to another member of the graduate studies team.  

Graduate Program Assistants provide support on:  

• Forms – advisory committee forms, progress reports, extensions, leaves of absences, max program duration, plan of study, withdrawals, part-time forms 
• Course-waivers  
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) & Tri-agency scholarship applications (SSHRC, CIHR, and NSERC)  
• Funding and general scholarship questions 
• Admissions documents 
• Payroll deduction/Graduate Settlement  
• Defense documents 
• Assignment of student study spaces