Ilona Abramovich

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Alex\'s research focuses on LGBTQ youth homelessness & finding the changes that need to be implemented in the current shelter system in order for it to become safer, more accessible & more supportive for LGBTQ homeless youth. Arts informed research, participatory research, critical ethnography.

Simon Adam

Social organization of health care institutions, institutionalized care, mad/psychiatric survivor/anti-psychiatry work, community organizing and resistance. Psychiatric diagnosis and intervention, Big Pharma, electroconvulsive therapy, strategic activism, and social movements.

Ramsey Affifi

r.affifi@utoronto.ca
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pedagogy of lived experience, environmental education, ecological research methodology, interspecies curricula, biosemiotics, phenomenology, epistemology

Jennifer Allerton

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I am a student in the M.Ed. program. My studies will inform and ideally compliment my professional focus in adult e-learning program development - curriculum, online design, policy and administration. I am particularly interested in social technologies and transformative learning.

Yetunde Banjo

My research interests are migration, learning and women.I am currently working on a thesis which explores why certain immigrant women groups choose a particular profession in Canada.

Victorina Baxan

victorina.baxan@utoronto.ca
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Teacher education; internationally educated teachers; teaching for diversity

Michelle Bertrand

m.bertrand@utoronto.ca
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I am interested in psychotherapy process research, Traditional and non-Western healing practices, and methodological theory, issues and developments in research on critical multicultural practices in counselling and psychotherapy

Kathryn Bojin

My MA thesis will explore partnership development between pro-feminist men\'s and women\'s rights organizations whose work is focused on anti-violence advocacy. Challenges and enabling factors of these inherently political alliances will be explored.

Paula Bude Bingham

My studies as a CP, MA candidate primarily concern: the human-animal bond (Anthrozoology) and how it relates to mental health; grief and bereavement (Thanatology) over pet loss; emotional self-regulation/ intelligence; mindfulness based stress reduction/ mindfulness in psychotherapy.

Paula Cameron

i am interested in the ways we learn through our bodies. for my doctoral research, i am studying \\\'depression\\\' as radical learning. a co-participant, i am gathering stories from young women diagnosed with depression. we will share our stories through small handmade books called zines.

Soma Chatterjee

My research is on the practices of nationalism in global knowledge economies.

Michelle Coombs

How hegemonic discourses impact the informal learning experiences of women in leadership positions

Lisa Couperthwaite

LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual) issues; similarities and differences between heterosexuals and various gender and sexual minority groups and the relationships between love styles, attachment styles, relationship satisfaction and approaches to sexual relationships.

Jonathan Danson

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My dissertation research involves using process measures to investigate qualities of writing that differentiate between those who benefit from an Expressive Writing (EW) task and those who do not. Data comes from a randomized control trial investigating the use of EW with survivors of trauma.

Susan Diane

feminism,relational orientation, sexual fluidity, qualitative and arts-informed research, female dominated professions

Breanne Faulkner

I am interested in the trauma-related development of substance abuse and other addictive behaviours, as well as the relationship between addiction and aggression, in particular, intimate partner violence (IPV). My current focus is on child maltreatment, adolescent substance use and IPV.

Abdulhamid Hathiyani

Immigrants, labour market and multiculturalism. Research interests include acceditation, bridging programs and the disparities in the labour market.

Ammaar Kidwai

The impact of the quality of romantic relationships on the vulnerability of both heterosexual and homosexual women in developing unhealthy dietary behaviours. In addition, the role body dissatisfaction plays amongst these variables is also an interest of mine.

Christopher Langer

My current focus is on the social organization of urban agriculture. More specifically, I look at community gardens ran by non-profit organizations in the context of food movement discourses, City zoning bylaws, and the everyday lived experiences of poor Torontonians.

Katherine Madjidi

Transformative learning; Indigenous ways of knowing; spirituality and education; Global governance and educational change

Nina Mafrici

nina.mafrici@utoronto.ca

I am primarily interested in the development of body image in young girls, and how social discourses relating to gender influence girls\' and women\'s experiences in their bodies.

Bronwen Magrath

bronwen.magrath@utoronto.ca

civil society and transnational networks; social movements and social movement learning; popular education; participatory democracy

Krystle Martin

I am interested in treating criminal offenders and reducing recidivism. I am currently investigating how criminal offenders view their future and how this affects their readiness to make changes in their life with respect to criminal behaviour. I would like to use this information to develop effective and appropriate treatment for individuals who are incarcerated.

Jane Mizevich

jane.mizevich@utoronto.ca

For my MA thesis I used qualitative methods to examine the narratives related to body weight, eating, and dieting of 12 adolescent girls. For my PhD dissertation I will be examining the factors that protect young women from body dissatisfaction and help them resist the pressure to be thin.

Jeffrey Myers

jeffrey.myers@utoronto.ca

My keywords are globalization, democracy, nationalism, citizenship, and migration. I am also interested in measures designed to reduce the democratic deficit - non-citizen voting, MMP electoral reform, deliberative and participatory democracy. My principal research interest is in how the Canadian national narrative impacts/reflects unequal power relations, internal colonialism, and neoliberal globalizing tendencies in Canada.

Sachiko Nagasawa

My research interests include female embodiment and how varied social processes disrupt girls connection to their bodies during adolescence. For my doctorate in Counselling Psychology, I am examining social discourses related to physical activity and gender under the supervision of Dr. Niva Piran.

Olga Oulanova

My MA research explored the integration of Aboriginal traditional healing practices with Western counselling. I am also interested in the psychotherapeutic potential of Martial Arts practice.

Marianne Pelletier

marianne.pelletier@utoronto.ca

My main interest has arisen from my observations of the effects of western culture on body image and my undergraduate thesis on the consequences of violating social norms for eating. My thesis will investigate the relationship between body image and the pressures to fit external standards of beauty.

Elizabeth Pinnington

My research combines participatory governance, popular education and 'pedagogy for the privileged.' I am working on addressing a gap in capacity building for government officials who find themselves facilitating participatory democratic processes.

Renee Rawlins

My research takes an autoethnographic approach to the unique divorce experiences of African/Caribbean-Canadian women in a family. It examines the divorce process and ultimate resiliency of women from a Black feminist perspective.

Regieve Roopa

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Rob Roopa is a Masters student at OISE working towards a degree in adult education. He is currently working on a program that will merge adult learning principles and counseling psychology theory with a focus on assisting individuals with introvert personalities.

Tiisetso Russell

tiisetso.russell@utoronto.ca

My PhD research focuses on the experiences of foreign trained black lawyers navigating the Canadian legal credentialing process in Ontario through the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA), and the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC).

Nicole Ryan

I am currently an M.Ed student interested in the adult learner and internationally trained immigrants. I am also interested in transformative learning and the various methods teaching can be conducted.

Thomas Saczkowski

thom.saczkowski@utoronto.ca
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My doctoral research is a dialectical analysis of the process of disablement. This project is contextualized through an examination of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism. I am involved with community projects that challenge the capitalism and white supremacy.

Sheila Stewart

adult literacy; diversity; equity; narrative; arts-informed research; poetry; poetic inquiry; how shame, grief, and silence relate to troubles with learning and language

Silvia Tenenbaum

silvia.tenenbaum@utoronto.ca
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I research about a specific group of gender-variant children during the \'70s in Montevideo, Uruguay vis-a-vis their lives nowadays,under an autoethnographic parameter, and after geographic dislocation. Intersectionality of forms of oppression for these former asylum seekers is also considered.

Oona Tiplady

My research is examining posttraumatic symptoms in therapists following the suicide of a client.

Mercedes Umana

mercedes.umana@utoronto.ca
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Social determinants of mental health in immigrant, refugee, refugee seeking, and non status populations;Mental Health in Primary Health Care Settings; HIV/AIDS,trauma,Anti-Oppression Psychotherapy,and trans-national Psychology.

Brenda Wastasecoot

brenda.wastasecoot@utoronto.ca

Parents and families at risk. Teaching adults to teach parents to play with their children. Family studies related specifically to the Aboriginal family experience of \\\"voicelessness\\\" in the child welfare system. Key issues include intergenerational trauma, destabilization of family and community, disruption and interference that has contributed to the ongoing displacement of parents and family breakdown.

Nadya Weber

nadya.weber@utoronto.ca

collaboration between schools and community-based non-formal education organizations for global citizenship education (in Canada and the UK)

Rong-
Hsuan Wu

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My interests include: multicultural counselling competencies, racial dynamics in counselling, traditional healing, and interracial couples counselling. I've lived in Taiwan, Costa Rica, Panama, Spain, and NYC and am proficient in written and spoken English, Spanish, and Mandarin.

Laura Wyper

Adult literacy, power and privilege, social justice, seed saving, community activism. My present research looks at the factors and patterns involved in marginalized high school drop outs and potential factors for success in adult education.