Dr. Martin Guhn is a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research postdoctoral fellow, with a background in human development, psychology, education, and music. His interdisciplinary, applied research focuses on how social, cultural, demographic, and socio-economic factors jointly affect children's developmental health and educational trajectories. Further research interests include children's well-being and social and emotional development, bio-ecological theories of human development, validation of developmental health assessment, measurement of change over time, educational reform, and school- and community-based knowledge-to-action research. Please visit Dr. Guhn's website to find further details on his research interests, publications, projects, and collaborations.

Publications

• Investigating the substantive aspect of construct validity for the satisfaction with life scale adapted for children: A focus on cognitive processes

  • 2011 Social Indicators Research
  • Gadermann A. , Guhn M. , Zumbo B.

• New approaches to early child development : rules, rituals, and realities

  • 2011
  • Goelman H. , Pivik J. , Guhn M.

• Bioecological theory, early child development and the validation of the population-level Early Development Instrument

  • 2011 Social Indicators Research
  • Guhn M. , Goelman H.

• Opening remarks to the special issue on validation theory and research for a population-level measure of children’s development, wellbeing, and school readiness

  • 2011 Social Indicators Research
  • Guhn M. , Zumbo B. , Janus M. , Hertzman C.

• Validation theory and research for a population-level measure of children’s development, wellbeing, and school readiness

  • 2011 Social Indicators Research
  • Guhn M. , Zumbo B. , Janus M. , Hertzman C.

• Bioecological theory, early child development and the validation of the population-level Early Development Instrument

  • 2010 Social Indicators Research
  • Guhn M. , Goelman H.

• Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) Report

  • 2010
  • Guhn M. , Gadermann A. , Zumbo B.

• Children's development in kindergarten: A multilevel, population-based analysis of ESL and gender effects on socioeconomic gradients

  • 2010 Child Indicators Research
  • Guhn M. , Gadermann A. , Hertzman C. , Zumbo B.

• Middle Years Development Instrument - Vancouver District Report

  • 2010
  • Guhn M. , Konishi C. , Sweiss L. , Schonert-Reichl K. , Hymel S. , Lee A.

• Our Children’s Voices: The Middle Years Development Instrument

  • 2010
  • Schonert-Reichl K. , Guhn M. , Hymel S. , Hertzman C. , Sweiss L. , Gadermann A.

• The world book of happiness

  • 2010
  • Guhn M. , Gadermann A.

• The use of population-level data to advance interdisciplinary methodology: A cell-through-society sampling framework for child development research

  • 2009 International Journal of Social Research Methodology
  • Kershaw P. , Forer B. , Lloyd J. , Hertzman C. , Boyce T. , Zumbo B. , Guhn M. , Milbrath C. , Irwin L. , Harvey J. , Hershler R.

Projects

• Developmental Health and Well-being of Children Born to Immigrant and Refugee Families
• EDI
• EDI Parent and Community Resources
• EDI Researcher Resources
• MDI MAPS
• MDI
• MDI Parent and Community Resources