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IDSR PhD Candidates

Some of the IDSR PhD students who have passed their Qualifying Exams:

Jennifer Bates, A right to accommodation? Do dyslexic students have a right to visual modes of learning? (Supervisor: Leo Groarke, Philosophy)

Geoffrey Crane, Developing Critical “Soft Skills” for the Workplace: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Program to Build Core Emotional and Social Competencies (Supervisor: James Parker, Psychology)

Uzma Danish, Understanding Service Needs and the Aging Experiences of South Asian Older Adults in the Durham Region, Ontario, Canada: Critical Gerontology and Critical Race Theory Perspective (Supervisor: David Firang, Social Work)

Lisa Ditschun, Cities for Seven Generations (Supervisor: Robin Quantick, Indigenous Studies)

Lesleigh Dye, Student attendance and collective leader efficacy (Supervisor: Blair Niblett, Education)

Rachel Galea, An Institutional Ethnography of Health Care for Women with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Diagnoses (Supervisor, Ellen Buck-McFadyen, Nursing)

Sonya Hill, Waitlisted: Mapping the Institutional Organization of Childcare Access and Expansion in Ontario (Supervisor: Kristy Buccieri, Sociology)

Patrick Igbinijesu, Naming Spaces: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a New Canadian about Black Canada (Supervisor: Nael Bhanji, Gender and Social Justice)

Seana Irvine, Remaking Industrial Landscapes for the Inclusive City (Supervisor: Roger Picton, Geography)

Adebayo Makanju, TI OGBO: Evidence of aging in place in the Nigerian Context (Supervisor: Kirsten Woodend, Nursing)

Emma Paisley, Exploring the Ecology of Food Learning in a University Foodscape: Place-Based and Critical Experiential Education (Supervisors: Karen Thompson, Sustainable Agriculture and Michael Classens, University of Toronto School of the Environment)

Maggie Parker, Unschooling and Freedom-Based Education: A Scoping Review of Self-Directed Learning Literature (Supervisors: David Beresford, Biology and Denise Handlarski, Education)

Shelly Philip LaForest, A qualitative exploration of the subjective well-being of the Black Nurse in Ontario: An Ethnographic study (Supervisor: Abeer Omar, Nursing)

Alison Rodgers, Pathways and Barriers: Parent Pursuit of Mental Health Care for their Children/Youth (Supervisor: Naomi Nichols, Sociology)

Abigail Sepenu, The Borrowed Aunty Project; Ghanaian Immigrant Women Navigating Postpartum Mental Health in Sweden, Germany, UK, USA, and Canada – a Feminist Participatory Action Research (Supervisor: Marina Morgenshtern, Social Work)

Besma Soltan, Barriers to successful entrepreneurship: Examining the influence of intersectional identities on the experiences of racialized women entrepreneurs (Supervisor: Asaf Zohar, Business Administration)

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