ECPS Recipients of the 2013-2014 Graduate Student Research Grant

We are very proud to announce that nine ECPS students (out of 21 overall Faculty of Education awardees) have received the 2013-2014 Faculty of Education Graduate Student Research Grant. Each year, the Graduate Student Research Grant program provides awards of up to $1,000 to outstanding graduate students in order to reimburse them for the financial costs of conducting research necessary for the completion of their degrees. This year, the Office of Graduate Programs and Research in the Faculty of Education received more than 40 highly competitive applications!

All recipients were identified by the Faculty’s adjudication committee as submitting very strong research proposals.

ECPS recipients are (in alphabetical order, by last name):

Jamie Bartfai
Supervisor: Dr. Sterett Mercer
Project Title: Learning through action with embodied education: a multisensory component analysis in a phonological awareness

Jacqueline Bendell
Supervisor: Dr. Anusha Kassan
Project Title: Back to school: re-engagment from the adolescent perspective

Courtenay Crucil
Supervisor: Dr. Norman Amundson
Project Title: Community as client: an investigation of what helps and what hinders the integration of social justice into counselling practive

Karlee Fellner
Supervisor: Dr. Ishu Ishiyama
Project Title: Shaping mental health services to better serve indigenous peoples living in urban spaces

Zarina Giannone
Supervisor: Dr. Colleen Haney
Project Title: Life after sport: the relationship between athletic identity and mental health outcomes after elite sport retirement

Megan Hughes-Jones
Supervisor: Dr. Beth Haverkamp
Project Title: Intimate partner relationships and recovery from an eating disorder

Shereen Khan
Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Shapka
Project Title: Online therapy: the client and counselor experience

Leah Wilson
Supervisor: Dr. Richard Young
Project Title: Adolescent conversations about recover from depression and the adolescent-parent relationship

Michaela Wooldridge
Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Shapka
Project Title: An ecology of technology: infants, toddlers, and mobile screens

 

Again, congratulations to our students and their supervisors.  What an outstanding accomplishment!