The IDSR Seminar Series is a recurring event designed to bring together graduate students and faculty in collaboration and discussion about interdisciplinary academia
Creative Knowledge Mobilization Strategies
Friday, March 13th, 9:00 - 10:30 am
Join IDSR PhD students as they discuss creative knowledge mobilization strategies.
Alison will share a zine developed to navigate mental health and developmental services for children and youth in Peterborough. Sam will talk about timeline graphics they created for a webinar, and stickers and erasers they made as incentives for undergraduate students. Cris and Sonya will share creative graphics and unique ways that they are being used by Dr Kristy Buccieri's trauma informed knowledge mobilization research team.
Register for the Zoom link at trentu.zoom.us/meeting/register/oK1bMGSoQgCPwcEEsbTRSw
Join us for the inaugural IDSR Student Symposium
April 30th, 9:00 am-4:00 pm in the Trent Student Centre (TSC) Room 1.07
The IDSR PhD Program is pleased to announce our first-ever Student Symposium: a full day of sharing research, building community, and celebrating the work of our students.
Opening Tribute
Our day will begin at 9:00 AM with a celebration of the life of our friend and colleague, Natalie Beavis, who suddenly passed away in December 2025. We invite the community to join us in honouring her memory.
About the Symposium
All current IDSR students are encouraged to attend and participate. The symposium is designed to offer a supportive, collegial space for students to:
- Present their research at any stage
- Learn from peers
- Engage in interdisciplinary dialogue
- Strengthen connections within the IDSR community
The program will feature both formal research presentations and roundtable discussions, creating opportunities for students to explore ideas, work through challenges, and gain feedback from those in attendance.
Food and Sustainability
Light morning refreshments and lunch will be provided. To help reduce waste, we kindly ask attendees to bring their own water bottle or reusable coffee mug.
Registration
Opens: March 9th at 8:00 AM
Closes: March 27th
Schedule for April 30th:
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM Dedication for Natalie Beavis
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM The wicked problem of tackling domestic violence studies (Cristina Ariza)
10:20 AM – 10:40 AM An Institutional Ethnography of Health Care for Women with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Diagnoses (Rachel Galea)
10:40 AM – 11:00 AM Pathways and Barriers: Parent Pursuit of Mental Health Care for their Children/Youth (Alison Rodgers)
11:00 AM – 11:20 AM Mapping Power and Possibility in Childcare Expansion Policy (Sonya Hill)
11:20 AM – 11:40 AM Connecting the dots, a scholarly analysis of neo vagrancy laws in Ontario (Sam Blondeau)
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM Seeing hijra Aging in Bangladesh: Lived Experiences of Late-Life and Healthcare Precarity (Nazmul Alam)
12:00 PM – 12:20 PM Relationality as a framework for interdisciplinary research methodologies (Lisa Ditschun)
12:30 PM – 1:40 PM Lunch
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM Exploring the Ecology of Food Learning in a University Foodscape: Place-Based and Critical Experiential Education (Emma Paisley)
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM Community and Self in Grassroots Freedom-Based Education (Maggie Parker)
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM The Emerging Social Enterprise, Institutions and Change: A Multi-Level Exploration of Practices and Experiences (Jay Fisher)
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM Built to exclude: The "one-size-fits-all" myth in Canada's entrepreneurship ecosystem (Besma Soltan)
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM Duty at the Threshold of a Doctorate: Ethical Research Principles (Catherine Masson)
3:20 PM – 3:40 PM Mothering in Academia (Sonya Hill, Alison Rodgers, and Rachel Galea)
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM Closing Remarks
Questions? Please contact Emma Paisley at emmapaisley@trentu.ca