Potential Graduate & Honours Thesis Students

Honours Thesis Students:

I will not be accepting honours thesis students for the 2024-2025 year.

Graduate Students:

Thank you for your interest in joining the Early Lab and the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Ottawa. I am planning to review graduate applications for Fall 2025.

I am including some information that I provide to all potential applicants. The website can be a bit challenging to navigate, so I like to highlight where you can find all relevant information. You may have already reviewed some of it, but if not, I encourage you to review:

Dr. Nicole Racine’s Research

  • Personal Website:

  • Google Scholar Profile Page:

    • Dr. Racine’s profile page will give you an idea of the types of research we are working on in the lab.

uOttawa Graduate Admissions

  • The first link on this page is related to the School’s EDI goals for admission to the graduate programs. I support these initiatives and will be prioritizing applications from equity seeking groups. I encourage applicants to self-identify in their application materials if they choose whether they identify to an equity-seeking group. 

Here, you can find more information about:

I highly encourage students to apply for graduate funding from SSHRC or CIHR, and OGS. Please be sure to look into these application processes.

Potential Applicants:

I will review all applications following the deadline and invite short-listed candidates for a Zoom interview. The timeline at uOttawa means that I am usually able to send out those invitations around late January, early February. Please note that I receive a high volume of applications, and as such, I am not able to tell candidates ahead of time whether they are likely to be competitive for admission.

The ranking grid is most helpful in this regard. Generally, I am looking for students who demonstrate a strong research match with our work in the lab, a capacity to work in a humble and relational way with community partners, excellent team work skills, and a firm foundation in developmental psychopathology