May 23, 2018
More big news from the SHiFT Lab: our one-and-only Emily Thomas has been selected to receive a Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence for her Master’s Thesis! Congratulations, Emily!!
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Check out SHiFT Lab Director, Dr. Maria Gurevich’s, post about the lab’s work on Standpoints, Psychology’s Feminist Voices’ blog!
Read moreOctober 21, 2017
Join us at the 7th Annual Social Justice Week, taking place from October 23 – 27, 2017 at Ryerson University. This year’s multi-disciplinary program features 18 events ranging from daily roundtables, panel discussions, lunch & learn workshops, lectures, and a commemorative art installation for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women organized by Walking With Our Sisters – Toronto. The events touch…
Read moreOctober 18, 2017
So excited to announce that SHiFT Lab members Stephanie Cosma and Emily Thomas have each been awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral Scholarship from SSHRC!!
Read moreOctober 4, 2017
Big congratulations to Emily Thomas, who was granted a fellowship award from The O’Brien Foundation! Read Emily’s write-up here! Established in 1971, The Leonard and Kathleen O’Brien Humanitarian Trust provides postgraduate fellowships for deserving students who wish to pursue advanced study or research in any academic, artistic, or professional field at any recognized university or…
Read moreJune 1, 2017
Huge congratulations to Dr. Amy Brown-Bowers for winning a Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence for her dissertation entitled, Couples coping with prostate cancer: Women and men (re)negotiating discourses of gender, sexuality and intimate relationships!!
Read moreApril 15, 2017
The SHiFT Lab will be delivering a panel talk entitled Perils and possibilities: Consent, coercion and misgendering at Massey College this Tuesday! DETAILS Massey College, 4 Devonshire place Tuesday, April 18th, 4-6pm RSVP to emockler@masseycollege.ca if you’d like to attend – limited space available! SUMMARY This panel will address two interrelated topics that have recently received wide media…
Read moreMarch 29, 2017
*Please note that recruiting for this project has now ended.* We’re recruiting participants for our Women & Pornography Study! Are you female, between 18-35, and. . . DO YOU USE PORNOGRAPHY? If you answered YES to these questions, we invite you to participate in our study of women’s experiences with porn. Participation involves: A 1.5-2…
Read moreJanuary 16, 2017
The Massey College Diversity Committee is partnering with the UofT Graduate Students Union Race & Ethnicity Caucus (REC) to host a panel on Access to Justice and Safety for Minority Groups in Canada. Panelists Prof. Sherry Farrell Racette, Prof. Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Mohamed Boudjenane, and Nana Yanful will discuss how systemic discrimination impacts various minority groups…
Read moreDecember 29, 2016
Check out the incredible Psychology’s Feminist Voices project, directed by Alexandra Rutherford, professor in the History and Theory of Psychology graduate program at York University! The project includes an oral history program, begun in 2004, that documents the diverse perspectives, lives, careers, and contributions of feminist psychologists from across the globe – including SHiFT lab…
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