Past Graduate Student Projects
Doctoral Dissertations
Amanda Jenkins – “Hairless, odourless, bleached, and clean”: Exploring Women’s Experiences of the Vagina in Connection with Vaginal Cleansing Products
Karla Stroud – “You have to sometimes be like a bulldog”: Fillial Caregiving Experiences Supporting their Parents during the Transition from Hospital to Home in Ontario
Claudia Barned – “Not fat, maybe thick, not too skinny”: Resisting and Reproducing Health and Beauty Discourses in Urban Jamaica
Masters Theses
Mikaela Beijbom- In-Person or Online? A Qualitative Analysis of Parents’ Back-to-School Decision-Making During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Vivian Harbers- Between Objection and Injection: A Thematic Analysis of Ontarians’ Perspectives on a COVID-19 Vaccine
Jessica White- IUDs and Women’s Contraceptive Decision-Making: Examining the Impact of Contraceptive Experiences, Reproductive Goals and Changing Life Circumstances on Contraceptive Choices
Alexis Fabricius- Unfeminine, Unhealthy and Unusual: Women’s Characterizations of Their PCOS Bodies
Kristie Serota – The Co-Production of Deliberative Outputs in a Public Deliberation on Cancer Drug Funding: An Analysis of the Discourse
Past Honours Thesis Projects
Zahra Husein- Representations of Autism: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Canadian Autism Organizations
Emily Patterson- How Available Space Shaped Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario: A Thematic Analysis
Angela Delodder- Pandemic Time – How COVID-19 Transformed Canadians’ Experience and Relationship with Time: An Experiential Thematic Analysis
Merna Tawfik- Parents’ Experiences of Caring for Children with Neuroblastoma: A Thematic Analysis
Maddy (Madelyn) Casola- Women’s Accounts of Obtaining an Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis Later in Life: A Thematic Analysis of YouTube Videos
CY Foo – “Listen to your gut”: A Qualitative Analysis of Direct-to-Consumer Microbiome Testing Websites
Mikaela Beijbom – Constructions of Women’s Health in North American Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Popular Women’s Health Magazines
Kristina Pagliaro – Communicating Information About Childhood Vaccination to Parents: A Thematic Analysis of a Public Deliberation
Emma Conway – The Social Processes of Public Deliberation Examined through the Lens of Positioning Theory
Jessica White – A Discursive Analysis of Descriptions of Vaccine-Refusing Parents in the Ontario Vaccine Deliberation
Stephanie Liscumb – Social and Ethical Concerns Regarding Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis Among Canadian Citizens
Kaitlin Snell – Quality of Life and Aging in Chatham-Kent: Perspectives of Older Adults in the Community
Stephanie Figliomeni – The Social Management of Asthma and Cystic Fibrosis in Youth
Jessica Gibson – Women’s Health, Hygiene, and Product Use: A Qualitative Study of Motivational and Social Influences
Janet Amos – Risk Communication and Genetic Testing
Christine Smith – The Promotion of the HPV Vaccine: An Exploratory Study of Risk Communication Related to the HPV Vaccine on Ontario and Canadian Websites
Allie Dainow – Concerns of Cystic Fibrosis Patients: A Qualitative Analysis of Cystic Fibrosis Message Board Data