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Spring 2024

Cima, Samantha

Though victimized less than women and gender non-conforming individuals, college men are four to five times more likely to experience sexual assault than men who have not attended post-secondary (Forsman, 2017). Despite this increased risk, little is known about sexually assaulted college men’s...

Fall 2024

Blockley, Aidan

Much has been written about the history of 2SLGBTQIA+ people and their treatment in psychiatric institutions in parts of the world such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Despite the former two countries being Canada’s main psychiatric influences, little has been...

Fall 2024

Medwayosh, Audrey

Of the 1.8 million Indigenous Peoples residing on the lands known as Canada, nearly half live in urban areas. Urban spaces themselves are built on traditional Indigenous territory. In some cases, Indigenous Peoples are born and raised in cities that exist on their territories, in other cases,...

Fall 2024

Braden, Samuel Harris

Mental health conditions are prevalent in Canada, but services are underutilized. It is important to understand what factors are linked to mental health care use, but the literature on this topic is inconclusive. What is the relationship between educational attainment, income, and the...

Fall 2024

Budgell, Kaitlyn S

In the province of Alberta, wildfires have been growing in severity and frequency for decades and are expected to worsen. These wildfires threaten an increasing number of individuals and families with poor air quality, destruction of property, and displacement. The effects of natural disasters...

Spring 2024

Geldart, Rachel Lynn

Extant scholarly work has explored multiple aspects of transit safety and security issues. It tends to focus on increasing actual or perceived safety on public transit, including crime prevention through environmental design and increasing safety for vulnerable transit users and community members...

Spring 2024

Ifeonu, Prof-Collins

Over the last three decades, the number of students pursuing higher education outside of their country of citizenship (international students) has increased five-fold (The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2022). In that same period Canada has become a popular attraction of...

Fall 2024

Chowdhuri, Samadrita

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome or PCOS is a condition characterized by different symptoms of menstrual abnormalities, overweight and obesity, acne, hair loss, and hirsutism (male hair growth pattern), based on the key feature of an increase in androgen synthesis by the ovaries. This is a condition...

Fall 2023

Quinlan, Laura A.

The National Housing Strategy Act, passed by the Canadian government in 2019 to address homelessness, enshrines housing as a fundamental right. Despite these efforts, many individuals still lack access to adequate housing. Canada witnesses an annual occurrence of homelessness for youth ranging...

Fall 2023

DeKeseredy, Andrea

This thesis explores how the lives of graduate student mothers at the University of Alberta changed during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19. Using a qualitative descriptive approach, I interviewed 19 graduate student mothers from various programs using a maximum variation...