She is interested in intercultural psychology, specifically the way in which people from different ethnocultural groups living in a multicultural society negotiate their interactions with each other and the way in which the defining values of a multicultural society develop. Within this framework, Dr. Towson is particularly interested in issues of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination, and concepts of retributive and restorative justice. Dr. Towson was a member of the Better Beginnings, Better Futures Research group, which studied the long-term impacts of early childhood prevention programming for disadvantaged children in Canada. Dr. Towson is a Co-Investigator on the Walpole Island First Nation Body Mapping and Risk & Well Being Mapping Project.