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Title Critical Identity Classrooms as Turbulent Spaces: Exploring Student and Instructor Experiences with Identities, Privilege, and Power

Excerpt This qualitative study focuses on students and instructors who study, teach, and learn critical concepts of identity, such as gender, race, and dis/ability. The participants’ reflections on these university classroom experiences are examined in order to explore the ways they understand their encounters with privilege and power. In classes that take up discussions of identity […]

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Author Kannen, Victoria

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SDGs Gender Equality

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Title Three Essays on Personnel Economics

Excerpt My dissertation focuses on the role of incentives in the workplace. In Chapter 1, I study peer effects in pay-for-individual-performance jobs. Specifically, I explore whether, how, and why coworker performance matters when rewards are based on individual performance. When teamed with high-performing peers, I find that workers are more productive overall. I also find that […]

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Author Kapoor, Sacha

Advisor Benjamin, Dwayne

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic Growth

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Departments Economics

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Title Understanding Reports to Child Welfare from the Education System: Challenges and Opportunities for Supporting Vulnerable Children

Excerpt Educators play a crucial role in the detection of child abuse, but there is limited research understanding the role of teachers in responding to maltreatment concerns. The purpose of this dissertation was to utilise three sequential studies, with multiple methodologies, to understand how Canadian educators are situated to detect, respond, and report suspected child abuse. […]

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Author King, Colin

Advisor Scott, Katreena

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SDGs Quality Education

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Departments Human Development and Applied Psychology

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Title As the Body Unfolds: Examining Girls’ Changing Experiences with the Socially Constructed Labels ‘Tomboy’ and ‘Girly Girl’

Excerpt This study explored the lived experiences of girls with the socially constructed labels ‘tomboy’ and ‘girly girl’. Using a prospective, life history, qualitative methodology, girls between the ages of nine to fourteen years old were interviewed up to four times over five years for an extensive embodiment project. The present study investigated girls’ narratives of […]

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Author Legge, Robyn

Advisor Piran, Niva

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Departments Adult Education and Counselling Psychology

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Title A Feasibility Study of a Bourdieu-informed Parent Briefing Intervention to Improve Parents’ Satisfaction with Decision Making for Hospitalized Children with Complex Health Care Needs

Excerpt Children with complex health problems who are dependent upon medical technology require frequent hospitalizations, during which parents must make difficult decisions regarding their child’s care. Although principles of “family-centred care” have been widely adopted by paediatric hospitals, studies indicate that many parents are dissatisfied with their roles in decisions about their child’s care. Pierre Bourdieu’s […]

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Author LeGrow, Karen Suzanne

Advisor Hodnett, Ellen

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Departments Nursing Science

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Title Decolonising Trauma Work: Indigenous Practitioners Share Stories and Strategies

Excerpt This dissertation explores the areas of healing and wellness within Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. By drawing on a decolonising approach to Indigenous health research, this study engaged 10 Indigenous healthcare practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous worldviews; notions of wellness and wholistic health; critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses; and the cultural strategies that […]

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Author Linklater, Renee Broadbridge Legge

Advisor Edmund, O'Sullivan

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Title Philosophy of the Many: High School Philosophy and a Politics of Difference

Excerpt As we start a new millennium, the conviction that exclusionary practices need to be fought at all levels of society is becoming gradually more accepted. Nevertheless, as I show in this thesis, many if not most researchers on High School Philosophy (HSP) operate from what Iris Marion Young (1990) calls a logic of identity, which […]

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Author Macedo, Ester Pereira Neves

Advisor Boyd, Dwight

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Title The Individualization of Risk as Responsibility and Citizenship: A Case Study of Chemical Body Burdens

Excerpt This dissertation examines how changing conceptions of risk responsibility relate to changing ideas of citizenship and the public sphere. Using the empirical case study of chemical body burdens, and drawing on focus groups and in-depth interviews, in addition to a twenty-year framing analysis of Canadian news media coverage of environmental contamination, this dissertation examines how […]

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Author MacKendrick, Norah

Advisor Johnston, Josée

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Title The Politics of Collaborative Prevention: A Sociological Account of Commemoratives and a Young Worker Safety Campaign

Excerpt In public health, prevention is a fundamentally political process as both the selection of problems to be addressed and solutions recommended reflect decisions that are informed by economic, social and cultural forces. Yet prevention is often presented as a monolithic enterprise, an objective and scientific discourse that does not take sides. Behind this facade of […]

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Author Mansfield, Elizabeth

Advisor Eakin, Joan

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGood Health and Well-Being

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Departments Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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Title Regenerative Medicine Innovation in Emerging Economies: A Case Study Comparison of China, Brazil and India

Excerpt Regenerative medicine (RM) has the potential to develop new treatments for chronic disease and injury that are desperately needed in developing countries. Several emerging economies are actively participating in RM, producing new knowledge and initiating clinical trials. This thesis presents case studies of RM in China and Brazil and a comparative analysis of RM across […]

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Author McMahon, Dominique

Advisor Thorsteinsdottir, Halla ||Daar, Abdallah

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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingIndustry, Innovation and InfrastructureQuality Education

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