SGS Celebrates Graduate Student Winners of Federal Tri-Council Awards - Fawn Parker

Andrea

Posted: Apr 2, 2025

Category: Student Stories , News and Events



Profile of: Fawn Parker Award Received: SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Indifference, The Unreliable Author—Writing By and About Mad Women Department: English Supervisor: Dr. Kasia Van Schaik My doctoral project, a novel and accompanying critical introduction, deals with themes of Madness, psychiatric institutionalization, and womens'...

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Images of Research 2025 - Winning Entries Announced

Andrea

Posted: Mar 31, 2025

Category: News and Events , Student Stories , Money Matters



Congratulations to Liam Brennan and all the winners of the 2025 Images of Research competition! This collaboration between the School of Graduate Studies and the Harrient Irving Library Research Commons asked UNB students to capture their work in a single image.  This year's images will be dispalyed at the Hans W. Klohn Commons and the Research Commons on the third floor of the Harriet...

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SGS Celebrates Graduate Student Winners of Federal Tri-Council Awards - Chris Ryan

Andrea

Posted: Mar 26, 2025

Category: Student Stories , News and Events



Profile of: Chris Ryan Award Received: SSHRC Post-Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Exploring education innovation through institutional studies and applied neurocognition Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Supervisor: Dr. Jonathon Edwards As our society continues to evolve, there is pressure on public schools around the world to change and adapt. One of the big...

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SGS Celebrates Graduate Student Winners of Federal Tri-Council Awards - Connor deMerchant

Andrea

Posted: Feb 19, 2025

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Profile of: Connor deMerchant Award Received: Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Making Whiteness, Remaking Empire: The Poor Whites of Dorsetshire Hill, St. Vincent, 1834-1940 Department: Historical Studies Supervisor: Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy My project demonstrates that the racialization of poverty in Barbados and St. Vincent is, in many ways, a legacy of an...

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SGS Celebrates Graduate Student Winners of Federal Tri-Council Awards - Allyson Lamont

Andrea

Posted: Feb 12, 2025

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Profile of: Allyson Lamont Award Received: SSHRC Post-Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Mental Health and Help-Seeking at the Intersection of Food Insecurity and Other Social Determinants of Health Department: Psychology Supervisor: Dr. David Speed Nearly one in four Canadians are food insecure, meaning they experience inadequate or uncertain access to...

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SGS Celebrates Graduate Student Winners of Federal Tri-Council Awards - Eliza Ives

Andrea

Posted: Feb 5, 2025

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Profile of: Eliza Ives Award Received: SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Insomnia: A Fugue State Department: English Supervisors: Dr. John Ball and Dr. Stephen Schryer Insomnia is a common yet poorly understood disorder. My doctoral project, a narrative composed both of fiction and fact, relates a year-long episode of chronic insomnia, for which there was no...

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SGS Celebrates Graduate Student Winners of Federal Tri-Council Awards - Meghan Kemp-Gee

Andrea

Posted: Jan 29, 2025

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Profile of: Meghan Kemp-Gee Award Received: SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: The Lyric and the Athlete Department: English Supervisor: Dr. Sue Sinclair What can competitive sports teach us about poetry? Can we "read" a tennis match like a lyric poem? I came to UNB to write and study lyric poetry, and I’ve also been a competitive athlete since I was...

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SGS Celebrates Graduate Student Winners of Federal Tri-Council Awards - Janet Mills

Andrea

Posted: Jan 16, 2025

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Profile of: Janet Mills Award Received: SSHRC Post-Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Religion, Reverberations, and Rebellion: Demerara in the Age of Abolition, 1795-1834 Department: Historical Studies Supervisor: Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy Today we rely on communication through social media and other modern advantages. But what did we do before the internet, television, or...

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SGS Celebrates Award-winning Graduate Students - Claire Anderson

Andrea

Posted: Jan 10, 2025

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Profile of: Claire Anderson Awarded: the 2025 CCUCC Chemistry Master of Science Award, offered through the Canadian Society for Chemistry Department: Chemistry Supervisor: Dr. Stijn De Baerdemacker The demand for energy is continually increasing, requiring a need for storage systems capable of storing large quantities of energy for extended periods of time. One system that has shown...

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SGS Celebrates Graduate Student Winners of Federal Tri-Council Awards - Megan Muise

Andrea

Posted: Dec 18, 2024

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Profile of: Megan Muise Award Received: SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Opening the dialogue: Comfort and barriers when discussing sex with queer clients in therapy Department: Psychology Supervisor: Dr. Scott Ronis I came to my research topic through a problem that stumped me as a new clinician: despite being involved in sex research for years and...

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