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Fall 2013

Millar, Carolyn A

My purpose in this research was to examine women contemporary dancers’ positive experiences. While previous research in women’s dance experiences exit, it tends to focus on the negative outcomes of dance participation. Using a phenomenologically inspired approach I sought to answer the following...

Spring 2015

Lindsay, Alanna M

Introduction: Stuttering impacts almost every aspect of life, stimulating fear and speaking avoidances, anxiety, frustration, anger, guilt, and/or shame in those affected. Because stuttering triggers anxiety and other psychological and emotional reactions and limits participation in society, it...

Fall 2021

Lemermeyer, Gillian

This phenomenological study explores the lived experience of the nurse’s touch in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Touch is deeply embedded within NICU nursing, sometimes so taken-for-granted as to seem invisible, but implied in nearly every nursing gesture and pursuit. Inserting an...

Fall 2017

Sulla, Erin

Young adults with ADHD are less likely to graduate from high school and pursue post-secondary education than young adults without ADHD (Barbaresi et al., 2007; Barkley, 2006; Molina et al., 2009). University students with ADHD, given their enrollment in postsecondary education, have likely...

Spring 2020

Johnson, Shelby Laine

Background: Canada is witnessing a growing recognition on the importance of food literacy; knowing how to purchase, prepare, and eat healthy food. Previous research has shown these core competencies can contribute to healthy eating. This is supported with the recent inclusion of certain...

Fall 2018

Redlich Amirav, Dorit

This study aimed to explore hope experiences among mothers living alongside adult children with mental illnesses in a socio-political conflict area. Hope is increasingly recognized as an important factor for people facing difficult situations. Mothers whose adult children struggle with mental...

Fall 2022

Yankey, Manzah-Kyentoh, Akuba

Despite the plethora of research on police culture, few studies have examined police culture from an intersectional approach. To provide more intersectional research on police culture, I conducted 16 semi-structured interviews with women police officers from a police organization in Alberta to...

Fall 2012

Graham, Jocelyn E.

Excessive sugar consumption may adversely affect maternal and fetal health. This study explored influences on women’s sugar consumption behaviours during pregnancy using focused ethnography. Fifteen pregnant women were interviewed and qualitative content analysis was used to inductively derive...

Spring 2019

Kohl, Ashley

Classification systems in prisons have consequences in both formal and informal ways for inmates. Protective custody (PC) units are especially unique spaces in which traditionally the most vilified populations – informally often referred to as “skinners, rats, and scaredy cats” – have been...

Fall 2021

Janine May Tine

I conducted three case studies spanning three different Canadian provinces to explore parental perceptions of childhood and childrearing held by parent couples in intercultural marriages in which one spouse was Canadian born and raised and the other was foreign born and raised and immigrated to...