Amin Mousavi, University of Saskatchewan

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Saskatchewan profile.

Latest papers

Pre-service teachers' knowledge of language and literacy concepts: The skeleton in Canada's closet?
Annals of dyslexia · 2026
Randomized controlled trial of neurofeedback mindfulness meditation as a practice for migraine management
Journal of Clinical Neuroscience · 2025
The Good Food for Learning Universal Curriculum-Integrated Healthy School Lunch Intervention: Protocol for a Two-Year Matched Control Pre-Post and Case Study.
JMIR research protocols · 2021

All 8 publications

Latest funding

Between the Bench, the Bar, and the Academy: The Socio-Historical Construction of Law in Africa from the Imperial to the Global Age
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$97,508
Improving School Food: Universal Integrated Healthy Lunch Intervention Research
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$527,849

All 2 grants and awards

8 publications.

01

Pre-service teachers' knowledge of language and literacy concepts: The skeleton in Canada's closet?

Georgiou GK, Peyton AR, Antoniuk A, Beach P, Fraser A, Kirby JR, Klein P, Li G, Metsala J, Mousavi A, Nickel J, Savage R, Joshi RM

Annals of dyslexia20266 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s11881-025-00351-0 PMID: 41131405

02

Randomized controlled trial of neurofeedback mindfulness meditation as a practice for migraine management

Faly Golshan, Gloria Sun, Jenna Francisco, Parham Alibolandi, Monika Nabi Zade, Amin Mousavi, Rachel Lysenko, Megan E. O’Connell, Haley Block, Paul Masiowski, Marla Mickleborough

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2025.111685 PMID: 41101279

03

The Good Food for Learning Universal Curriculum-Integrated Healthy School Lunch Intervention: Protocol for a Two-Year Matched Control Pre-Post and Case Study.

Engler-Stringer R, Black J, Muhajarine N, Martin W, Gilliland J, McVittie J, Kirk S, Wittman H, Mousavi A, Elliott S, Tu S, Hills B, Androsoff G, Field D, Macdonald B, Belt C, Vatanparast H

JMIR research protocols20217 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.2196/30899 PMID: 34546171

04

Correction: The Good Food for Learning Universal Curriculum-Integrated Healthy School Lunch Intervention: Protocol for a Two-Year Matched Control Pre-Post and Case Study.

Engler-Stringer R, Black J, Muhajarine N, Martin W, Gilliland J, McVittie J, Kirk S, Wittman H, Mousavi A, Elliott S, Tu S, Hills B, Androsoff G, Field D, Macdonald B, Belt C, Vatanparast H

JMIR research protocols2021

DOI: 10.2196/34393 PMID: 34731086

05

Multiple sclerosis incidence rate in southern Iran: a Bayesian epidemiological study.

Asmarian N, Sharafi Z, Mousavi A, Jacques R, Tamayo I, Bind MA, Abutorabi-Zarchi M, Moradian MJ, Izadi S

BMC neurology2021

DOI: 10.1186/s12883-021-02342-1 PMID: 34376167

06

Measurement Invariance and Psychometric Analysis of Oxford Happiness Inventory Scale across Gender and Marital Status.

Mousavi A, Sharafi Z, Mahmoudi A, Shahraki HR

BioMed research international2020First author

DOI: 10.1155/2020/8906209 PMID: 32685540

07

Measurement invariance and psychometric analysis of Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale across gender and marital status.

Mousavi A, Shojaee M, Shahidi M, Cui Y, Kutcher S

Journal of affective disorders201911 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.05.010 PMID: 31103804

08

Assessment of Differential Item Functioning in Health-Related Outcomes: A Simulation and Empirical Analysis with Hierarchical Polytomous Data.

Sharafi Z, Mousavi A, Ayatollahi SMT, Jafari P

Computational and mathematical methods in medicine2017

DOI: 10.1155/2017/7571901 PMID: 29312463

Between the Bench, the Bar, and the Academy: The Socio-Historical Construction of Law in Africa from the Imperial to the Global Age

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Terretta, Meredith

Keywords: imperialism; decolonization; law; gender; race; legal history; Africa; French Empire; British Empire; post colonialism; post imperialism; Third World Approaches to International Law

$97,508

Improving School Food: Universal Integrated Healthy Lunch Intervention Research

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Engler-Stringer, Rachel; Field, Debbie E

Keywords: Food Systems; Health Promotion; Population Health Intervention Research; Schools

$527,849

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.

Frequent collaborators

Hassanali Vatanparast and Hassan Vatanparast: 237 shared papers
Nazeem Muhajarine and Rachel Engler-Stringer: 28 shared papers
Rachel Engler-Stringer and Hassan Vatanparast: 28 shared papers
Rachel Engler-Stringer and Hassanali Vatanparast: 27 shared papers
Nazeem Muhajarine and Hassan Vatanparast: 14 shared papers
Nazeem Muhajarine and Hassanali Vatanparast: 13 shared papers
George Georgiou and John Kirby: 13 shared papers
George Georgiou and Robert Savage: 9 shared papers
Rachel Engler-Stringer and Wanda Martin: 8 shared papers
Jennifer Black and Hassan Vatanparast: 6 shared papers
Nazeem Muhajarine and Sara Kirk: 5 shared papers
Rachel Engler-Stringer and Debbie Field: 5 shared papers
Jennifer Black and Hassanali Vatanparast: 5 shared papers
Nazeem Muhajarine and Jason Gilliland: 4 shared papers
Rachel Engler-Stringer and Sara Kirk: 4 shared papers
Rachel Engler-Stringer and Jennifer Black: 4 shared papers
Rachel Engler-Stringer and Sinikka Elliott: 4 shared papers
Rachel Engler-Stringer and Hannah Wittman: 4 shared papers
Sara Kirk and Hannah Wittman: 4 shared papers
Jennifer Black and Sinikka Elliott: 4 shared papers
Jennifer Black and Hannah Wittman: 4 shared papers
Wanda Martin and Hassan Vatanparast: 4 shared papers
Debbie Field and Sinikka Elliott: 4 shared papers
Nazeem Muhajarine and Wanda Martin: 3 shared papers
Nazeem Muhajarine and Debbie Field: 3 shared papers
Rachel Engler-Stringer and Jason Gilliland: 3 shared papers
Sara Kirk and Jason Gilliland: 3 shared papers
Megan O'Connell and Marla Mickleborough: 3 shared papers
Nazeem Muhajarine and Amin Mousavi: 2 shared papers
Rachel Engler-Stringer and Amin Mousavi: 2 shared papers
Sara Kirk and Amin Mousavi: 2 shared papers
Jason Gilliland and Amin Mousavi: 2 shared papers
Jennifer Black and Amin Mousavi: 2 shared papers
Wanda Martin and Amin Mousavi: 2 shared papers
Debbie Field and Amin Mousavi: 2 shared papers
Sinikka Elliott and Amin Mousavi: 2 shared papers
Hannah Wittman and Amin Mousavi: 2 shared papers
Robert Savage and John Kirby: 2 shared papers
Hassan Vatanparast and Amin Mousavi: 2 shared papers
Nazeem Muhajarine and Megan O'Connell: 1 shared paper
Hassanali Vatanparast and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
Megan O'Connell and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
Perry Klein and Jamie Metsala: 1 shared paper
Perry Klein and Andrea Fraser: 1 shared paper
Perry Klein and George Georgiou: 1 shared paper
Perry Klein and Guofang Li: 1 shared paper
Perry Klein and Pamela Beach: 1 shared paper
Perry Klein and Robert Savage: 1 shared paper
Perry Klein and John Kirby: 1 shared paper
Perry Klein and Jodi Nickel: 1 shared paper
Perry Klein and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
Jamie Metsala and Andrea Fraser: 1 shared paper
Jamie Metsala and George Georgiou: 1 shared paper
Jamie Metsala and Guofang Li: 1 shared paper
Jamie Metsala and Pamela Beach: 1 shared paper
Jamie Metsala and Jodi Nickel: 1 shared paper
Jamie Metsala and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
Andrea Fraser and George Georgiou: 1 shared paper
Andrea Fraser and Guofang Li: 1 shared paper
Andrea Fraser and Pamela Beach: 1 shared paper
Andrea Fraser and Jodi Nickel: 1 shared paper
Andrea Fraser and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
Marla Mickleborough and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
George Georgiou and Ying Cui: 1 shared paper
George Georgiou and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
Guofang Li and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
Ying Cui and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
Pamela Beach and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
Robert Savage and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
John Kirby and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper
Jodi Nickel and Amin Mousavi: 1 shared paper

Education
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology
Department of Educational Psychology
Department of Psychology and Health Studies
Department of Educational Psychology & Special Education
Department of Nutrition
Applied Biology, Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability
Other

Applying for

Paper to mention

Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Mousavi, 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 "Pre-service teachers' knowledge of language and literacy concepts: The skeleton in Canada's closet?" (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] 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]