student work
within the social justice studies streams, 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 can complete a major research project, a creative project, or work with a social justice serving agency to complete a practicum. the projects and titles from 2023-24 are listed below. the complete list of projects for each stream can be found on their dedicated pages.
creative projects
sam cousin, “end of radio: an experiment of cultural reproduction about the inherent powers of technology, autonomy, and creativity.”
supervisor: max haiven
end of radio is an ephemeral web radio consisting of over 45 hours of progamming split accross more than three dozens segments. ranging from original interviews, to ambient music and experimental audio narratives, the content has been curated and created as part of a broader reflection on the structuring power of digital technology and its relationship with capitalism, surveillance, and fascism. end of radio is also a playful, creative experiment in cultural reproduction that nods to anarchist, post-marxist, and autonomist methodologies, as well as engage with recurrent themes in social justice studies.
emily faubert, “you are not alone: art, alienation, and the accessible future.”
supervisor: sandra jeppesen
this research-creation project engages with multiple mediums–written, drawn, and recorded–to interrogate the mental health implications and experience of individualism, which is reinforced through neoliberal imaginaries at a time when collective action is needed. in slicing the world into specific chunks–physically, emotionally, and spiritually–while allowing a privileged few to enact methods of scientific management to determine how these chunks will grow, technologies of whiteness and femininity are interrogated alongside practices of factory production. poetry, especially ‘instapoetry’ is recontextualized through a critical access critique, finding value in the expansion that accessibility offers. science fiction, so often illustrating dystopias, is engaged with as a method of futuring–what does it mean to constantly consume visions of dystopia that seem inevitable, and how can the future become aspirational?
stella lawson, "mutual aid: the game and imagination collaboration."
supervisor: max haiven
this project explores the role that participatory art can play in raising awareness and cohering communities of action to confront climate chaos and the related social justice issues from a theoretically-informed position. in particular, it explores the potential of radical board games to address the issues of our times. it also looks at the way these might encourage and support people to develop a deeper understanding of what many theorists argue is a root cause of climate change: settler colonial ideas of private property. as such, this project draws on an interdisciplinary range of literature and methods and aims not only to assess the potential of such games, but to further establish collaborations to design, test and distribute them.
complete list of creative projects.
practicums
lesly gunasekara
placement 1: international instituted for better data (iibd)
placement 2: kiikenomaga kikenjigewen employment & training services (kkets)
victoria idris umar
placement: northwest ontario women’s centre
nicole ramjewan
placement: poverty reduction plan, city of orillia and partners.
mansoureh ebrahimi
placement: citizens for public justice, policy development.
breanna reid:
placement: elizabeth frye society
umme hany
placement: office of human rights and equity.
complete list of practicum projects
research projects
alanna morgan, “cancer healing narratives in anishinaabe traditional healing.”
supervisor: lana ray
mino bimaadiziwin is an anishinaabe concept of “the way of a good life.” colonialism disrupted mino bimaadiziwin for many anishinaabek and is understood as a key determinant of health for indigenous peoples in canada. indigenous peoples experience poorer health outcomes, including significantly shorter life expectancy and overrepresentation in many chronic diseases including cancer. traditional healing is positioned as one path towards decolonization in healthcare and equitable health outcomes. this research explores the experiences of indigenous people who have participated in anishinaabe traditional healing related to cancer treatment. this research employs indigenous and decolonizing methodologies grounded in relationality, reciprocity and respect. semi-structured interviews were conducted with indigenous people with cancer participating in anishinaabe traditional healing. through intuitive logic and relational accountability, three interconnected themes of (a) self-determination, (b) relationality, and (c) mino bimaadiziwin in anishinaabe traditional healing are identified. as a researcher and anishininiikwe this research was also personally transformative. indigenous traditional healing contributes to wholistic wellbeing of indigenous peoples during their cancer journeys and must be made accessible for indigenous peoples as part of a decolonized cancer prevention and treatment strategy.
laija beaulieu, “the lived experiences of caregivers of children with congenital cytomegalovirus receiving healthcare in a remote and rural area of northern canada.”
supervisor: helle moeller
cytomegalovirus (cmv) is a common virus that rarely causes concerns in healthy individuals; however, when a fetus contracts the virus in utero (known as congenital cmv or ccmv), it may cause severe developmental and life-long health challenges for the infant. northern ontario, which encompasses the majority of the province, has an incredibly low population density, making healthcare accessibility challenging for those who reside there. to better understand caregivers' lived experiences with a child who has ccmv in northern ontario, laija conducted a qualitative research project involving in-depth interviews with caregivers in the thunder bay district. the project aimed to advocate for health equity by raising awareness of the barriers and gaps that caregivers in remote and rural areas may face when accessing cmv-related healthcare, gain insight into the phenomenon of parenting a child with ccmv living in northwestern ontario, as well as evaluate what programs and services they would find helpful.
complete list of research projects.