Jade oldfield

Jade Oldfield is a graduate student in neuroscience whose goal is to connect the fields of neuroscience and education to help facilitate better support and understanding of all students. Jade completed her Bachelor of Education at the University of Lethbridge in 2018 and worked in various complex classrooms, ending up as a Learning Support Teacher. This experience prompted her to seek a better understanding of neurodiverse learners and led her to enroll in the interdisciplinary MEd through the U of C in 2021. After her first year in the educational neuroscience stream, she was committed to making a bigger impact and immediately enrolled in the MSc in Neuroscience under the supervision of Dr. Robbin Gibb in 2022. Since then, her research has focused on studying executive functions (EF) and how play-based interventions can modulate EF skills. In particular, Jade’s research projects include the impact of chess play on EFs in at-risk youth and the impact of a curriculum of games on adolescent EF.