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Recent Media

Interview with CBC radio Quebec—Ainslie MacLellan (Aug 12). Why psychologists are leving the public sector for private sector.  

Researcher's Academy recording - Registered Reports Reviewer Perspective. Elsevier. (2025) https://researcheracademy.elsevier.com/publication-process/open-science/registered-reports-reviewer-perspective  

CBC Radio Noon. Using standardized testing in K-12 schools. (June 3). 

Vassy Kapelos Show—The explainer (April 16). Absenteeism in schools.  

Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel. March 12. Memories of COVID: Five years later. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-102-radio-noon-quebec/clip/16133585-your-memories-days-covi-19-emergency-quebec  

Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel. Feb 7 2025. Featured interview in the theme of best teacher I ever had. 

Dr. Shaw's CV

Steven R. Shaw is associate professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University in Montreal. He has served as graduate program director of the CPA-accredited School and Applied Child Psychology and Counselling Psychology programs. He also served as interim chair of the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology from 2023-2025. Before entering academia, he had 16 years of experience as a practicing school psychologist.

From 1997 to 2004, he served as lead psychologist and associate professor of pediatrics at The Children's Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina and Medical University of South Carolina. In 2000, the South Carolina Association of School Psychologists recognized him for "Outstanding Contributions to Education" for his work on addressing over-representation of minority groups in special education and development of teaching techniques for children with borderline intelligence.

In 2010, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Faculty of Education at McGill University. In 2012, he received the President’s Award from NASP for his innovative research-to-practice efforts. He has over 240 scholarly publications and presentations and has authored two books and edited five others.

He is on the editorial board of six international scholarly journals and is the former editor of School Psychology Forum and the Canadian Journal of School Psychology.