LGBTQ+ members of sports clubs
In cooperation with Windsor Rainbow Sports Club, we have recently completed a series of interviews with LGBTQ+ individuals who belong to recreational sports clubs (both queer-specific and non-queer clubs). This work was supported by a grant from the SSHRC Partnership Engage program as well as the WE Spark Igniting Discovery program.
Research Overview
Past and recent projects include:
- representations of "great sex" in lifestyle magazines,
- depictions of sexual scripts and orgasms in contemporary romance novels, and
- Final Girls and victims in Slasher movies
- representations of sexually explicit behaviour in Sex and the City, The L Word and their revivals
Current projects include:
- sexual behaviours and communication in YA novels aimed at LGBTQ+ readers
Representations of Sex and Sexuality in the Media
Current projects include:
- sexual health and wellbeing in 2S/TNB adults who reported a history of abuse,
- resilience in 2STNB individuals and cis women diagnosed with endometriosis
- contributors to resilience in HIV+ and HIV- gay men
- gender identity and resilience in drag performers
Resilience in relation to sex, sexuality, and gender identity
Archived Projects
Projects described here have been completed and no new data is being collected at this time. Prospective graduate or undergraduate students who are interested in doing research on these topics are advised to apply to other labs.
Mental Health and Wellbeing in Science Students
This work was started as part of the Sci of Relief program in the Faculty of Sciences in collaboration with Dr. Chris Houser (Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Dr. Dora Cavallo-Medved (Biomedical Sciences). Projects in this area include a survey administered to students, faculty and staff about levels of and contributors to stress, use of support programs, and ideas for improvements to the Faculty.
The Imposter Phenomenon
This work was initiated by a transdisciplinary team from FAHSS, Science, and HK including Ms. Michelle Bondy and Dr. Dora Medved-Cavallo. In October 2019, we surveyed students, staff, and faculty about their experiences of the Impostor Phenomenon in academic settings. We received over 1400+ responses from students and 150+ from staff and faculty. This survey generated over 800 descriptions of how participants felt in those moments. Data from this project supported the delivery of 15+ workshops by our team to undergraduate and graduate students on campus as well as staff and faculty.
This work was funded by a Centred on Learning and Innovation Fund (CLIF) grant from the Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Academic Lab Safety
Despite the regular occurrence of accidents resulting in personal injuries, property damage, and even deaths, little is known about the causes or impact of academic lab accidents. In collaboration with Dr. Trant (Chemistry/Biochemistry), we wrote a review on the subject that was published in Nature Chemistry and was downloaded 25,000+ times in the first two months of its publication.
Read a CBC interview about the article.
Nurse Mental Health and Wellbeing during COVID
With collaborators in nursing, we interviewed 36 nurses in May and June of 2020 to understand their experiences working in hospitals during the initial wave of COVID. We re-interviewed 19 of those nurses a year later. Based on their reports, as well as a survey completed by our group in December 2020 about use of programming, we created a simulation-based training program designed to boost resilience in senior nursing students. This project was supported by grants from the WE Spark Igniting Discovery program and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.