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Marie-Hélène Pennestri

ResearcherEducational and Counselling PsychologyMcGill University

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Marie-Hélène Pennestri

Researcher

Educational and Counselling Psychology

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2023.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (5 SSHRC, 3 CIHR, 2 NSERC), most recently in 2026.

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Research

Cododo Enquête Parents Partage Du Lit Professionnels De La Santé Rapports De Coroners Recommandations Santé Publique

Latest papers

Negative emotionality as a candidate mediating mechanism linking prenatal maternal mood problems and offspring internalizing behaviour.
Development and psychopathology · 2023
Sleep patterns and intraindividual sleep variability in mothers and fathers at 6 months postpartum: a population-based, cross-sectional study.
BMJ open · 2022 · senior author
Emerging New Psychiatric Symptoms and the Worsening of Pre-existing Mental Disorders during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Canadian Multisite Study: Nouveaux symptômes psychiatriques émergents et détérioration des troubles mentaux préexistants durant la pandémie de la COVID-19: une étude canadienne multisite.
Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2021

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Latest funding

Le partage du lit: améliorer les recommandations et les pratiques grâce à une perspective multidisciplinaire
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
$478,126
Beyond the 'Teenage Blues': A longitudinal population-based study documenting the long-term outcomes of adolescent depression
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,113,075
Canada Reseach Chair - Tier 2
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$600,000

All 14 grants and awards

Le partage du lit: améliorer les recommandations et les pratiques grâce à une perspective multidisciplinaire

Nominated PICIHR2026Project Grant

Principal investigators: Pennestri, Marie-Hélène

Keywords: Cododo; Enquête; Parents; Partage Du Lit; Professionnels De La Santé; Rapports De Coroners; Recommandations; Santé Publique; Sommeil; Transition À La Parentalité

$478,126

Beyond the 'Teenage Blues': A longitudinal population-based study documenting the long-term outcomes of adolescent depression

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Geoffroy, Marie-Claude; Ouellet-Morin, Isabelle

Keywords: Adolescent Depression; Adulthood Functioning Outcomes; Education And Employment; Health; Medical Services Use; Mental Health; Population-Based Cohort; Premature Aging; Social Relationships; Social Support

$1,113,075

Canada Reseach Chair - Tier 2

Nominated PICIHR2023Canada Research Chairs - CIHR Funded - Tier 2

Principal investigators: Pennestri, Marie-Hélène

Keywords: Crc

$600,000

Inter- and intra-variability of sleep patterns in infancy and early childhood

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Pennestri, Marie-Hélène

$78,000

Social-emotional well-being and sleep quality in preschoolers after a parental relationship dissolution

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Pennestri, Marie-Hélène

Keywords: Parental relationship dissolution; Social-emotional well-being; Sleep; Child custody; Preschoolers; Divorce; Life transition; Parental conflict

$31,712

Social-emotional well-being and sleep quality in preschoolers after a parental relationship dissolution

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Pennestri, Marie-Hélène

Keywords: Parental relationship dissolution; Social-emotional well-being; Sleep; Child custody; Preschoolers; Divorce; Life transition; Parental conflict

$35,997

Inter- and intra-variability of sleep patterns in infancy and early childhood

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Pennestri, Marie-Hélène

$12,500

"Rebellion in Every Movement:" Women Writing Indigenous Girlhood in Twentieth-Century Western Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022SSHRC Doctoral Awards

Principal investigators: Stubbs, Rachel T.

Keywords: indigenous literatures; Canadian literature; children's literature; gender studies; postcolonial studies

$68,947

The associations between infant sleep, parental sleep and the quality of the parent-infant relationship: a longitudinal study in mothers and fathers

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pennestri, Marie-Hélène

Keywords: sleep; parenthood; mothers; fathers; family; parent child relationships; sensitivity; attachment; expectations

$108,767

The associations between infant sleep, parental sleep and the quality of the parent-infant relationship: a longitudinal study in mothers and fathers

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pennestri, Marie-Hélène

Keywords: sleep; parenthood; mothers; fathers; family; parent child relationships; sensitivity; attachment; expectations

$120,869

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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Marie-Hélène Pennestri

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Negative emotionality as a candidate mediating mechanism linking prenatal maternal mood problems and offspring internalizing behaviour.

Sleep patterns and intraindividual sleep variability in mothers and fathers at 6 months postpartum: a population-based, cross-sectional study.

Profiles of sleep changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Demographic, behavioural and psychological factors.

Le partage du lit: améliorer les recommandations et les pratiques grâce à une perspective multidisciplinaire

Beyond the 'Teenage Blues': A longitudinal population-based study documenting the long-term outcomes of adolescent depression

Canada Reseach Chair - Tier 2

Inter- and intra-variability of sleep patterns in infancy and early childhood

Social-emotional well-being and sleep quality in preschoolers after a parental relationship dissolution

Social-emotional well-being and sleep quality in preschoolers after a parental relationship dissolution

Inter- and intra-variability of sleep patterns in infancy and early childhood

"Rebellion in Every Movement:" Women Writing Indigenous Girlhood in Twentieth-Century Western Canada

The associations between infant sleep, parental sleep and the quality of the parent-infant relationship: a longitudinal study in mothers and fathers

The associations between infant sleep, parental sleep and the quality of the parent-infant relationship: a longitudinal study in mothers and fathers

Frequent collaborators

Tetyana Kendzerska

Rébecca Robillard

Raj Bhatla

Eszter Szekely

Catherine Herba

Karine Dubois-Comtois

Addo Boafo

Lena Quilty

Robert Levitan

Ashley Wazana

Catherine Herba