Dr. Heather Price (left) and Dr. Yana Nec (right) (Submitted photo/TRU).

By Stephanie Swensrude

TRU research

Two TRU researchers renewed as Canadian Research Chairs

Jan 12, 2022 | 10:32 AM

KAMLOOPS — Two researchers at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will get more funding to continue research as Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs (CRC).

Dr. Heather Price is an associate professor of psychology at TRU. Her research is on children’s involvement in the legal system. She says that the justice system is designed for and by adults and is not intended to meet the needs of children.

“In order for the justice system to be able to accommodate the needs of children, we first have to understand what children’s capabilities are,” Dr. Price says on TRU’s website. “That way we can learn what needs to be adapted to improve a child’s ability to provide legal evidence.”

The second chair position that will be renewed is for Dr. Yana Nec. She is a CRC in applied mathematics and optimization in the Faculty of Science. Her research involves solving differential equations which help describe how a certain entity— such as gas pressure in a landfill, water velocity in a river or the concentration of a chemical in a reactor — changes in time or space, or both.

“Dr. Nec is working in a complex mathematical field that is producing results that have real and applied applications to industry and government having direct implications to the Canadian economy, yet she is making her research readily accessible to industry through industry collaboration and user-specific software development,” Faculty of Science Dean Dr. Gregory Anderson says.

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According to the Government of Canada, the CRC program invests up to $295 million per year to attract and retain world-class researchers to the country’s post-secondaries.

The two faculty members will be CRC’s for the next five years. They are among 188 new and renewed chairs and their research teams at 43 institutions across the country.