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
Department Manager
Room 4020
psy.manager@utoronto.ca
- Provide financial oversight of departmental budgets
- Manage appointed payroll
- Manage departmental space
- Manage USW staff
- Oversee fMRI billing
- Manage departmental operations
Shannon Halliwell-MacDonald
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
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
- Maintain People section of the PSY website
- Provide administrative support
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 Administrator
psy.undergrad@utoronto.ca
- Program and course administration
- Advise undergraduate program students
- Manage undergraduate Awards and Scholarships
- Manage undergraduate recruitment and admissions
- Coordinate academic timetable
- Recruit and hire course instructors and sessional lecturers
Dorothy Piniarski
Undergraduate Coordinator
psy.ug.assistant@utoronto.ca
- 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 information for prospective students
- Provides support for undergraduate programs
- Supports undergraduate communications
- Supports the Undergraduate Administrator
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
Alicia Shirley
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
Valerie Grieco (on leave)
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
- Appointed payroll
- 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
- Brokerage fees' inquiries for research accounts
- Monthly research accounts reconciliations
Angelica Angeles
Finance 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
- Respond to subgrant inquiries
- Coordinate purchasing card requests and reconciliations
- Prepare monthly department operational accounts reports
- Coordinate departmental petty cash
- Assist with honorariums and casual contracts
Nish Kandasamy
Finance and Payroll Officer
Room 4009
psy.payroll@utoronto.ca
- Draft casual contracts and manage payroll for students, TAs, RAs, work study and casuals
- Update Kronos payroll record
- Process stipends and honorariums
- Manage payroll for sessional lecturers and course instructors
- Monthly payroll reconciliations
Nazma Shahria (on leave)
Financial Clerk
psy.reimbursements@utoronto.ca (Reimbursements)
psy.mri.billing@utoronto.ca (ToNI Billing)
- Review and process non research invoices and purchase orders
- Review, reconcile fMRI charges and confirm them with PIs
- Review and process reimbursements
- Coordinate accountable advances
- Process departmental recoveries including computing backup, software, etc.
Suzanne Warren
Financial Clerk
Room 4008 or 4020
psy.reimbursements@utoronto.ca (Reimbursements)
psy.mri.billing@utoronto.ca (ToNI Billing)
- Review and process non research invoices and purchase orders
- Review, reconcile fMRI charges and confirm them with PIs
- Review and process reimbursements
- Coordinate accountable advances
- Process departmental recoveries including computing backup, software, etc.
Technical Support
Rob Figueiredo
Lead IT Administrator
Room 4039, 416-978-3396
psy.it.administrator@utoronto.ca
- Create & 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
