May 27, 2020
The #metoo movement has travelled over the past decade… Interesting interview with founder, Tarana Burke, about moving forward with healing. Click the photo below to access the interview! Check out our research on consent in a post #metoo world…
Read moreMay 13, 2020
Time to celebrate! 🥳 Both our SHiFT Lab PhD candidates, Stephanie Cosma, MA, and Emily Thomas, MA, have been awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships in the amount of $15,000 each. We are very proud of you, Steph and Emily! In such unprecedented and uncertain times as these, we are glad to know you have these funds in your…
Read moreMarch 24, 2020
Hot off the press! Our SHiFT PhD candidate, Stephanie Cosma M.A., in collaboration with Dr. Maria Gurevich, have a new publication! Cosma, S., & Gurevich, M. (2020). Securing sex: Embattled masculinity and the pressured pursuit of women’s bodies in men’s online sex advice. Feminism & Psychology, 30(1), 42–62. doi: 10.1177/0959353519857754 Full pdf available on our…
Read moreMarch 24, 2020
Lab news! Dr. Maria Gurevich and our two graduate students, Stephanie Cosma M.A., and Emily Thomas M.A., attended the Association for Women in Psychology 2020 conference in Austin at the beginning of March. The trio took the conference by storm – each presenting on their current research. Cosma, S. & Gurevich, M. (March, 2020). Appropriating agency:…
Read moreAugust 16, 2019
A message from Dr. Maria Gurevich, SHiFT lab director: Congratulations to Nicole Cormier, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Sexual Subversives or Lonely Losers? Discourses of Resistance and Containment in Women’s Use of Male Homoerotic Media.” Nicole’s dissertation addressed a largely neglected area of research – women’s use of male homoerotic media. Her work examined…
Read moreAugust 16, 2019
A message from Dr. Maria Gurevich, SHiFT lab director: Congratulations to Alexander Vasilovsky, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “Mainstream Psychology and the Gender Binary: Toward an Account of Becoming ‘Non-Binary.’” Relying on a synthesis of a genealogical construct analysis, empirical investigation and a participatory action-inspired artifact project, Alex’s dissertation addressed two objectives. The first…
Read moreApril 22, 2019
Check out SHiFT lab member Emily Thomas’ interview in “Green Light,” FASHION Magazine’s cover of consent-first workshops at a Toronto sex-friendly club, Oasis Aqualounge. Emily talks about her research on consent negotiation, education and issues with viewing problems with consent as an individualistic phenomenon. Great to read about the many implications of consent focused research!…
Read moreAugust 2, 2018
Hot off the presses! Coverage of SHiFT Lab presentations at this year’s British Psychological Society’s Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES) Conference in Windsor, UK – in the July issue of The Psychologist magazine! Read the full article here: https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/creative-and-critical-feminist-research From the article: “Usra Leedham (Ryerson University) initiated a lively conversation on the effects of…
Read moreJuly 20, 2018
Check out SHiFT Lab member Emily Thomas’ commentary, “Mis/representation and the media: A reflection on experiences with media engagement”, in the June 2018 issue of Sexualities journal! She and co-authors Michelle Lafrance and Monika Steltz critically engage with media reporting (and contorting) of their research around women’ negotiations and articulations of consensual but undesired sex,…
Read moreMay 29, 2018
Huge congratulations to SHiFT’s one-and-only Stephanie Cosma for winning a Council of Canadian Departments of Psychology (CCDP) Teaching Assistant Award for 2018!!
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