Nicole Muir

• PSYC 2490 - Abnormal Psychology
• PSYC 7140 - Clinical Research
• PSYC 7290 - Psychopathology

Dr. Muir is Métis with roots in Red River. She is currently completing her supervised practice hours for Psychological Associate (Ontario) at two Indigenous agencies in Toronto: Call Auntie (at Seventh Generation Midwives of Toronto) and Auduzhe Mino Nesewinong. Her clinical practice focuses on intergenerational trauma and mental health with Indigenous youth and adults.

Dr. Muir completed a Post Doctoral Fellowship with Dr. Janet Smylie from the University of Toronto at Well Living House, an Indigenous research centre. In her postdoc, she focused on the development of an Indigenous led COVID-19 testing and vaccination centre for urban Indigenous peoples, specifically both developing and training Indigenous people to do our own contract tracing. 

Prior to graduate school, Dr. Muir worked at an Indigenous child protection agency (on the prevention team), an Indigenous health unit (both in Toronto), and as a consultant for children with special needs in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver.

Within urban Indigenous populations, Dr. Muir’s research focuses on colonialism, trauma and victimization, foster care involvement, legal system involvement, and violence risk assessment tools. Dr. Muir’s overall aim is to achieve both scientific excellence and Indigenous community relevance by ensuring Indigenous community involvement from research conception to research dissemination.
 

• PhD (Forensic Psychology: Mental Health, Law, & Policy), Simon Fraser University, 2020
• MA (Clinical Child Psychology), Simon Fraser University, 2015
• BA (English Literature), McGill University, 1998
• BEd (Elementary Education), University of Saskatchewan, 1994

Research interests

• Colonialism 
• Indigenous community partnered research
• Trauma and victimization
• Violence risk assessment
• Legal system and foster care system involvement

• Muir, N. M., Rotondi, M., Brar, R., Khobzi Rotondi, N., Bourgeois, C., Dokis, B., Hardy, M., Maddox, R., & Smylie, J. (2023). Our Health Counts: Examining associations between colonialism and ever being incarcerated among First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in London, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 
• Muir, N. M., Viljoen, J. L., & Shepherd, S. (2023). Violence Risk Assessment Tools and Indigenous Peoples: Colonialism as an Underlying Cause of Risk Ratings on the SAVRY. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 1-13. 
• Nicholl, T., Charette, Y., Seto, M. C., Caulet, M., Muir, N. M., & Crocker, A. G. (2023). How do persons found NCRMD and identified as Indigenous differ from other persons found NCRMD: Profiles, trajectories, and outcomes. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, ahead of print, 1-14. 
• Graham, S., Muir, N. M, Smylie, J., & **Formsma, J. (2023). First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples living in urban areas of Canada and their access to healthcare: A systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research in Public 
  Health, 20(11). 
• Muir, N. M. & Viljoen, J. L. (2022). Adverse childhood experiences for Indigenous female and male adolescents on probation. Child Abuse & Neglect, 126, 105512. 
• Muir, N. M, Viljoen, J. L, Jonnson, M., Cochrane, D. M., & Rogers, B. J. (2020). Predictive validity of the SAVRY with Indigenous female and male adolescents on probation. Psychological Assessment. 32(6), 594.