SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Research Data Use in a Digital Society: A Deliberative Public Engagement
In Nov 2019, a team of researchers conducted a public deliberation to explore issues associated with linking data, including balancing the potential benefits of research using linked data with potential risks, such as those to privacy.
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My role: coding deliberative data; working toward the development of a manuscript for publication
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Summer 2020-present
Unfeminine, unhealthy & unusual: Women's characterizations of their PCOS bodies
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder among reproductive-aged women, with symptoms and associated conditions that often undermine both gendered and biomedical norms and cause women distress. In this study, I illustrate how PCOS has been developed in biomedical literature to represent a state of being both unfeminine and unhealthy. I provide a historical overview of PCOS as a foundation for knowledge of the syndrome while also offering a critical reading of the development of that knowledge. I then conduct a feminist poststructural discourse analysis on interviews with women with PCOS. From women’s talk, I discerned four characterizations of PCOS bodies that yield particular social and material practices for management: Monstrous, Undocile, Disruptive and Impelling Identity Negotiation. I close by considering the conceptual and applied implications of these findings.
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Sex, gender & traumatic brain injury
Based out of the Acquired Brain Injury lab with Dr. Angela Colantonio at UofT and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-UHN, this qualitative study sought to better understand how gender impacted men and women's experiences of traumatic brain injury.
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My role: Clinical Analyst
June 2018-May 2019
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Psychology's Feminist Voices
Psychology's Feminist Voices is an online, multimedia digital archive under the direction of Dr. Alexandra Rutherford. It contains the stories of women of psychology's past as well as contemporary feminist psychologists who have shaped and continue to transform the discipline.
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I was an active member of PFV from 2016-2018. During my tenure, I wrote profiles on feminist psychologists from the past and present, and contributed to projects like Gender Matters
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Visually impaired women discuss personal safety to inform the development of relevant violence prevention strategies
For my Honours thesis (under the supervision of Dr. Alexandra Rutherford), I conducted focus groups with blind and partially sighted women to explore their experiences of violence and use of self-defence. This paper was awarded the Originality Prize in Memory of Paul Jeffrey Kusyszyn – York University Awarded for an Honours thesis that exemplifies “outside the norm” originality as determined by the selection committee
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2017-2018
AGE-WELL Technology & Aging
OA-Involve AGE-WELL is a unique Canadian network that brings together people who are interested in researching and developing technologies and services to facilitate healthy aging. Under the leadership of Dr. Susan Kirkland and others like Dr. Kieran O'Doherty, our project used participatory methods to engage older adults in scientific work.
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My role: Highly Qualified Personnel
Sept 2018-Mar 2020
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Ministry of Health: Linking Quality to Funding
For my MA practicum, I worked with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOH-LTC) on a project entitled Linking Quality to Funding (LQ2F) that explored funding models for Ontario hospitals.
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My role: Qualitative analysis of project data and development of first report draft.
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Spring and Summer 2019