The Department of Psychology Administrative Offices are on 4th Floor of Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON. M5S 3G3.
Our hours of operation are Monday to Friday, 8:45am to 5:00pm. Administrative staff work on a hybrid schedule, so please email them to arrange an in-person meeting.
Main Office
Alena Wasney
Director, Administration and Finance
Room 4020
psy.manager@utoronto.ca
- Provide financial oversight of departmental budgets
- Manage departmental space
- Manage USW staff
- Manage departmental operations
Erin Morris
Front Office Administrator
Room 4020
psy.info@utoronto.ca (General Inquiries)
psy.fobs@utoronto.ca (Key Fob Requests)
- Act as the first point of contact for general inquiries for the department
- Accept and track deliveries and mail
- Provide administrative support (sending communications, filing, scanning etc)
- Accept and track deferred and accessibility tests and exams
- Coordinate room bookings
- Coordinate fob requests
- Order supplies, catering and maintaining office equipment
Jen Levi
Assistant to the Chair
Room 4020
psy.chair@utoronto.ca
- Coordinate Academic HR processes, including faculty hiring, promotions, reviews and PTR
- Manage the Chair's schedule
Michael Pereira
Communications Officer
Room 4030
psy.communications.officer@utoronto.ca
- Manage department website and mailing lists
- Promote internal and external events and initiatives
- Amplify faculty and student research
- Produce digital and print content
- Photograph department events
Undergraduate Inquiries
Tamara Ferguson
Undergraduate Program Manager
psy.ug.manager@utoronto.ca
- Undergraduate program management
- Day-to-day operational work flow planning and implementation
- Undergraduate curriculum development
- Assists the Undergraduate Associate Chair
- Oversees program recruitment, outreach, and event activities
- Undergraduate financial resource planning
- Development of student services initiatives
- Analysis of internal and external enrolment and curriculum trends
- Coordinate academic timetable
- Recruit and hire course instructors and sessional lecturers
Dorothy Piniarski
Undergraduate Administrator
(on Secondment from Undergraduate Program & Outreach Coordinator)
psy.ug.outreach.coordinator@utoronto.ca (Outreach)
psy.undergrad@utoronto.ca (Undergraduate Programs)
- Academic Advisor to undergraduate students
- Assessment of Psychology program applications
- Staff Mentor for FLC experiential program
- Facilitates Alumni-Student Mentorship Program & Co-curricular Records
- Hires and Coordinates Invigilators for exams
- Facilitates course auditing and high school visits
- Provides support for Alumni Relations events
- Provides support for undergraduate programs
- Supports undergraduate communications
Linna Liu
Undergraduate Administrator
psy.undergrad@utoronto.ca
- Academic Advisor to undergraduate students
- Assessment of Psychology program applications
- Staff Mentor for SLC experiential program
- Administrative support for undergraduate courses and programs
- Assess graduation requests
- Process scholarship and awards
- Supports undergraduate communications
- Supports the Undergraduate Program Manager
Shannon Halliwell-MacDonald
Undergraduate Assistant
psy.ug.assistant@utoronto.ca
- Academic Advisor to undergraduate students
- Assessment of Psychology program applications
- Provides information for prospective students
- Provides support for undergraduate courses and programs
- Updates undergraduate program web pages
- Supports the Undergraduate Administrator
Barbara Menezes Mendes
Instructional Support Administrator
psy.ug.instructional.support@utoronto.ca
Graduate Inquiries
Jennifer McCallum
Graduate Administrator
Room 4034
psy.graduate@utoronto.ca
- Manage graduate admissions, orientation and recruitment
- Manage graduate student funding and awards
- Coordinate graduate timetable
- Coordinate graduate program completion
- Provide front‐line graduate student support and advising
Valerie Grieco
Graduate TA Coordinator
Room 4034
psy.ta@utoronto.ca
- Coordinate TA postings, assignments and hiring
- Manage subsequent TA appointments
- Manage PSY Doctoral Final Oral Examinations (FOE)
- Provide support to the Graduate Administrator
Finance
Kamil Achchuthan
Senior Financial Officer
Room 4026
psy.senior.financial.officer@utoronto.ca
- Respond to all grant inquiries including CFI, CRC and ERA
- Prepare monthly and ad hoc reports for PI's research accounts
- Monitor PI research funds compliance and advise PIs
- Process research purchase orders and invoices
- Monthly research accounts reconciliations
Angelica Angeles
Financial Officer
Room 4090
psy.finance@utoronto.ca (General Inquiries)
psy.pdf@utoronto.ca (Postdoctoral Requests)
psy.pcard@utoronto.ca (PCard Requests)
- Postdoctoral hiring requests including hiring, extensions and terminations/resignations
- Subgrant inquiries
- Coordinate purchasing card requests and reconciliations
- Departmental recoveries including computing backup, software, etc.
- Plan and process expenditures for the SROP, SPRINT, EDI Committee, and Tri-Campus Talks budgets including casual payroll
- Monthly departmental operational accounts reconciliations
- Coordinate accountable advances and petty cash
Nish Kandasamy
Financial and Administrative Officer
Room 4009
psy.mri.billing@utoronto.ca (ToNI Billing)
psy.admin.finance@utoronto.ca (Administrative Inquiries)
- Manage appointed payroll for faculty, appointed USWs, research associates, sessional instructors, overload stipends, and TAs and RAs
- Plan and process expenditures for the fMRI budget including casual payroll
- Review, process and reconcile fMRI charges
- Review and process non-research and research invoices and purchase orders
- Monthly facilities charges reconcilitations
Harrison Jarmain
Finance and Payroll Officer
psy.payroll@utoronto.ca (Payroll Inquiries)
psy.reimbursement@utoronto.ca (Reimbursement Inquiries)
psy.timesheets@utoronto.ca (Timesheet Submissions)
- Draft casual contracts and manage payroll for students, work study, summer UG awards, and casuals
- Process stipends and honorariums
- Monthly payroll reconciliations
- Review and process reimbursements
- Brokerage fees' inquiries for research accounts
Technical Support
Rob Figueiredo
Lead IT Administrator
Room 4039, 416-978-3396
psy.it.administrator@utoronto.ca
- Create and develop policies/guidelines for the acceptable use of IT resources
- Oversee day-to-day operational needs for Psychology IT
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders for IT infrastructure-related projects
- Analyze and implement IT infrastructure solutions
- Review and assess requirements needed to meet IT project timelines
Sam Kim
Client Support Analyst
Room 559, 416-978-3396
psy.helpdesk@utoronto.ca
- Maintain IT infrastructure (lab servers, storage systems, firewall, network switches)
- Maintain virtual environments on servers
- Maintain back-up servers
- Provide security updates
- Provide technical support for hardware and software (including the fMRI facility)
Toronto Neuroimaging Facility (ToNI)
Lars Kasper
fMRI Physicist
Room 166A, 325 Huron St., 416-978-7613
psy.mri.physicist@utoronto.ca
- Manage operations at the Toronto Neuroimaging (ToNI) Facility
- Review, approve and support new projects and protocols
- Develop, coordinate and integrate new MRI methods
- Provide training and education for ToNI users with regard to MRI safety, MRI protocol selection and quality control, as well as image processing and analysis pipelines
Eva Han
Lead fMRI Technologist
Room 166A, 325 Huron St.
psy.mri.info@utoronto.ca
- Oversee day‐to‐day operational needs for the MRI ToNI Facility
- Coordinate and perform magnetic resonance imaging procedures for research studies
- Oversee and coordinate the installation and implementation of new equipment
