Lindsay McCunn

Program affiliation: Individualized program

Supervisor: Dr. Robert Gifford

Research interests

My previous research focused on the influence of building facades on consumer choice of professional services. I continue to be interested in the office environment and seek to better understand how design changes integrating sustainable, 'green' materials affect employee satisfaction and engagement. I am also interested in academic achievement and pro-social behaviour within high-performance schools; neighborhood and urban planning; transportation and pro-environmental behaviour.

Awards

Awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counsel Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship (doctoral), 2011-2013
Awarded a MITACS Accelerate internship, 2010
Received a UVIC graduate award, 2010
Awarded a 1-year graduate scholarship from the University of Victoria, 2009
Recipient of the Sara Spencer Foundation Award, 2009
Pacific Leaders Graduate Student Fellowship – shortlisted candidate, 2009
Member of the Golden Key International Honours Society, inducted 2003
Passport to Education Scholarship, 2000

Representative publications and presentations

Refereed Contributions:

Farbstein, J., Wener, R., & McCunn, L. J. (In preparation). Planning and built environment: Programming. In R. Gifford (Ed.). Research methods in environmental psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Wener, R., & McCunn, L. J. (In preparation). Did that plan work?: Post-occupancy evaluation. In R. Gifford (Ed.). Research methods in environmental psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

McCunn, L. J. (2012). Accessible Design in BC’s Subsidized Housing: Evidence For an Optimal Model. Psynopsis, 34, 14.

Gifford, R., & McCunn, L. J. (2012). Appraisals of built environments and approaches to building design that promote well-being and healthy behaviour. In L. Steg, A. van den Berg, & J. de Groot (Eds.), Environmental psychology: An introduction, 1st ed. (pp. 87-95). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

McCunn, L. J., & Gifford, R. (2012). Do Green Offices Affect Employee Engagement and Environmental Motivation? Architectural Science Review, 55, 128-134.

Gifford, R. & McCunn, L. J. (In press). Behavioral aspects. In A. T. Carswell (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Housing, 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

McCunn, L. J. (2011). Organizational Commitment, Sense of Place, and “Green” Urban Neighbourhoods (Master’s thesis) Retrieved from UVICSpace Electronic Theses and Dissertations Database. (http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3339).

Gosling, S. D., Gifford, R., & McCunn, L. J. (In press). Environmental perception and how interior environments affect us. In Brooker, G, & Weinthal, L. (Eds.), Handbook of interior design. Oxford, UK: Berg.

McCunn, L. J. & Gifford, R. (Submitted). Choosing Between Modern and Heritage Buildings for Professional Services.

McCunn, L. J. (2010, October). The advantages of applied experience during graduate school: Perspectives from an environmental psychology student, Psynopsis, 32(4),18

Conference Presentations and Posters:

McCunn, L. J. (2011, November). Accessibility in social housing and aging-in-place. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the British Columbia Non-Profit Housing Association, Richmond, BC.

McCunn, L. J., & Gifford, R. (2010, May). How sustainable and healthy offices affect employee engagement and environmental motivation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Environmental Design Research Association, Washington, DC. Note: Presentation counted as an Continuing Education System credit for the American Institute of Architects

McCunn, L. J. & Gifford, R. (2008, July). Choosing between modern and heritage buildings for professional services. Poster session presented at the meeting of the International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.

McCunn, L. J. & Gifford, R. (2008, August). Choosing between modern and heritage buildings for professional services. Poster session presented at the meeting of the International Association for People-environment Studies, Rome, Italy.

Published Conference Proceedings:

McCunn, L. J. (2011). Accessibility in social housing and aging-in-place [Abstract]. Proceedings of the British Columbia Non-Profit Housing Association, Canada, Print.

McCunn, L. J. & Gifford, R. (2010). How sustainable and healthy offices affect employee engagement and environmental motivation [Abstract]. Proceedings of Environmental Design Research Association, USA, Print and Compact Disc.

McCunn, L. J., & Gifford, R. (2008) Choosing between modern and heritage buildings for professional services. In Paul-B.-Baltes Lecture, Invited Address, IUPsyS Invited Symposium, Invited Symposium, Symposium, Paper Session, Poster Session. International Journal of Psychology, 43(3), 168-347.

McCunn, L. J., & Gifford, R. (2008). Choosing between modern and heritage buildings for professional services [Abstract]. Proceedings of the International Congress of Psychology, Germany, Compact Disc.

McCunn, L. J. & Gifford, R. (2008). Choosing between modern and heritage buildings for professional services [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Association for People-environment Studies, Italy, Compact Disc.