Catherine Loughlin, Saint Mary's University

Research

leadership intervention mental health literacy abusive supervision coaching well-being transformational leadership women diversity

Latest papers

Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity.
Journal of business ethics : JBE · 2025
Leading on the edge: The nature of paramedic leadership at the front line of care.
Health care management review · 2018 · senior author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Building Healthy Leadership Systems Starts with our Leaders
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$88,968
Building Healthy Leadership Systems Starts with our Leaders
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$18,984
Diversity specific transformational leadership
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$128,237

All 9 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity.

Scheuer CL, Loughlin C, Prowse D, McNally C, Arnold KA, Chalise S

Journal of business ethics : JBE2025

DOI: 10.1007/s10551-025-05973-3 PMID: 41113573

02

Leading on the edge: The nature of paramedic leadership at the front line of care.

Mercer D, Haddon A, Loughlin C

Health care management review2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/hmr.0000000000000125 PMID: 27467168

Building Healthy Leadership Systems Starts with our Leaders

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Loughlin, Catherine A.

Keywords: leadership intervention; mental health literacy; abusive supervision; coaching; well-being

$88,968

Building Healthy Leadership Systems Starts with our Leaders

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Loughlin, Catherine A.

Keywords: leadership intervention; mental health literacy; abusive supervision; coaching; well-being

$18,984

Diversity specific transformational leadership

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Loughlin, Catherine A.

Keywords: transformational leadership; women; diversity

$128,237

The healthy and productive workplace partnership: fostering worker and workplace health

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Day, Arla L.

Keywords: occupational health intervention; healthy workplace initiatives; chronic physical and psychological health conditions; psychologically healthy workplaces; gender; meaningful and productive work; work-life balance

$49,415

Partnership for a healthy workplace response to breast cancer

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Kocum, Lucie

Keywords: return to work; cancer and work; non-standard workers; breast cancer; psychosocial risk factors; accommodation; disability management

$46,937

Lost opportunity perceptions of female transformational leaders

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Loughlin, Catherine A.

Keywords: women in leadership; recognizing and rewarding excellence; stereotypes

$81,056

Canada Research Chair in Leadership

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Loughlin, Catherine

Keywords: leadership, occupational health, women

$500,000

Female transformational leaders: new directions for research

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Loughlin, Catherine A.

Keywords: transformational leadership; sex role stereotypes; career advancement

$114,087

Canada Research Chair in Management

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Loughlin, Catherine

Keywords: healthy work; youth; women and leadership

$500,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: leadership intervention Dear Professor Loughlin, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Diversity-Specific Empowering Leadership: An Alternative Approach to Reducing Sex-Based Bias and Enabling Inclusivity." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Building Healthy Leadership Systems Starts with our Leaders" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]