Dr. Hali Kil is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. As the Director of the All Families Lab at SFU, she holds expertise in parenting, parent-child relationships, mindfulness, and interethnic and intercultural family functioning. A process-focused researcher, Dr. Kil’s work emphasizes the complex pathways that link parents’ and children’s cognitions and behaviour across diverse contexts. In collaboration with clinical scientists, she also identifies novel targets for improving parenting and children’s social and emotional development.
Dr. Kil holds concurrent affiliations as an Investigator at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, as an Associate Member of SFU’s School of Public Policy, and in affiliate investigator roles with the Fraser Health Authority and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto and completed her postdoctoral training at CAMH and at Université de Montréal. Dr. Kil is an Associate Editor of the journal Mindfulness.