June 12, 2016
Lab member Emily Thomas just received the news that her application for the 2016-2017 Ontario Graduate Scholarship was successful!!! Congratulations, Emily!!
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Congratulations to lab member Stephanie Cosma who has been selected to receive a Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence for her Master’s thesis!!!
Read moreJune 11, 2016
Congratulations to Amy Brown-Bowers, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on May 24, 2016, entitled, “Couples coping with prostate cancer: Women and men (re)negotiating discourses of gender, sexuality and intimate relationships.” The external examiner for Amy’s dissertation noted that this is “a superb piece of work….based on a thorough, rigorous, and sensitively conducted piece of…
Read moreJune 9, 2016
Left to right: SHiFT Lab Director, Maria Gurevich, and Usra Leedham Congratulations to SHiFT Lab member, Usra Leedham, for winning the Ryerson Gold Medal for the Faculty of Arts, the Ryerson Board of Governor’s Leadership Award and Medal, and the Governor General’s Academic Medal!!
Read moreMay 25, 2016
The SHiFT lab will be in Bloomington, Indiana in October 2016 to Critique – Resist – Transform at the New View Capstone Conference. Check out the accepted presentations below, and click here to register before the early bird deadline on June 1st, for just $175. Brown-Bowers, A., Leedham, U., Gurevich, M. (2016, October). Post-prostate cancer…
Read moreMay 20, 2016
The NMCS is now accepting proposals for its 2017 summit – the deadline is June 15th! The NMCS convenes scholars in our roles as educators, practitioners, researchers, and students, in psychology and related fields, to inform and inspire multicultural theory, research, practice, and advocacy. Multiculturalism is envisioned as intersections of experiences related to age, disability,…
Read moreMay 19, 2016
SHiFT Lab Director Maria Gurevich and lab member Emily Thomas will be off to Windsor, UK this July to present at the British Psychological Society’s Psychology of Women Section’s Annual Conference! Check out the presentations, below! Gurevich, M., Mercer, Z., Cormier, N., & Leedham, U. (2016, July). Legitimate relationship labour or reckless casual sex? Representations of…
Read moreMay 19, 2016
The SHiFT lab will be in full force at the 77th Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association in Victoria, BC this June! Check out the accepted poster presentations, below! Cormier, N. S., & Gurevich, M. (2016, June). (Re)imagining masculinity: Slash fiction authors’ transformation of dominant gender and heterosexual norms. Leedham, U., Cormier, N., Mercer, Z., Brown-Bowers,…
Read moreApril 26, 2016
The deadline for the 2016 New View Capstone Conference call for proposals is May 15th! Early bird registrations ends June 1st! The New View Campaign, a grassroots network formed in 2000 to challenge the medicalization of sexuality, has been a model of feminist scholar activism. The 2016 Capstone Conference, October 6th-8th in Bloomington, Indiana will bring together…
Read moreApril 25, 2016
The Bill 7 Award is open to individuals who meet ALL of the following criteria: -Individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirited, and/or queer (LGBTTTQ2S) -Who are attending or accepted by a Post-Secondary Educational Institution in the Province of Ontario -Who have demonstrated financial need -And who are pursuing their FIRST post-secondary…
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