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2012-2013 Award Recipients
Master̢۪s Award ($18,000)
- Maxine Carroll, Université du Québec àChicoutimi - Research Topic: Les séjours thérapeutique sur le territoire: regard des intervenants inuits sur une pratique intégrant le territoire comme élément-clé du processus de guérison individuelle et communautaire
- Alexandra Kruse, Lakehead University - Research Topic: Examining social determinants of health and wellbeing in First Nations communities
- Natasha Wawarykow, University of British Columbia - Research Topic: Implications of anxiety disorders on Musqueam First Nations children
Doctoral Award ($21,000)- Carlene Dingwall, University of British Columbia - Research Topic: Illuminating possibilities for therapeutic space and intervention in urban Aboriginal populations
- Roger John, University of British Columbia - Research Topic: Indigenous men in ceremony: what are the effects of cultural-social-ceremonial-spiritual activities on Indigenous men's health
- Thea Luig, University of Alberta - Research Topic: Ontological security and well-being in northern Aboriginal communities
- Jennifer Nutton, McGill University - Research Topic: Cultural mentors as pathways towards resilience among Aboriginal youth in out-of-home care
- Nibisha Sioui, Université du Québec àMontréal - Research Topic: La résilience familiale en milieu Algonquin
- Angela Snowshoe, Western University - Research Topic: Exploring culture as a protective factor in Aboriginal adolescent mental health: development and longitudinal validation of an enculturation measure
2011-2012 Award Recipients
- Maxine Carroll, Université du Québec àChicoutimi - Research Topic: Les séjours thérapeutique sur le territoire: regard des intervenants inuits sur une pratique intégrant le territoire comme élément-clé du processus de guérison individuelle et communautaire
- Alexandra Kruse, Lakehead University - Research Topic: Examining social determinants of health and wellbeing in First Nations communities
- Natasha Wawarykow, University of British Columbia - Research Topic: Implications of anxiety disorders on Musqueam First Nations children
- Carlene Dingwall, University of British Columbia - Research Topic: Illuminating possibilities for therapeutic space and intervention in urban Aboriginal populations
- Roger John, University of British Columbia - Research Topic: Indigenous men in ceremony: what are the effects of cultural-social-ceremonial-spiritual activities on Indigenous men's health
- Thea Luig, University of Alberta - Research Topic: Ontological security and well-being in northern Aboriginal communities
- Jennifer Nutton, McGill University - Research Topic: Cultural mentors as pathways towards resilience among Aboriginal youth in out-of-home care
- Nibisha Sioui, Université du Québec àMontréal - Research Topic: La résilience familiale en milieu Algonquin
- Angela Snowshoe, Western University - Research Topic: Exploring culture as a protective factor in Aboriginal adolescent mental health: development and longitudinal validation of an enculturation measure
Master̢۪s Award ($18,000)
- Maxine Carroll, Université du Québec àChicoutimi - Research Topic: Les retombes aux plans personnels et interpersonnels d'un programme "de séjours sur le territoire" chez les jeunes inuit délinquants
- Pamela Weightman, McGill University - Research Topic: Addition of permanency planning time lines to Quebec's Youth Protection Act: potential impact on Aboriginal families
- Erin Wolfson, University of Saskatchewan - Research Topic: Trauma embodied: Aboriginal representations of trauma and the politics of healing
Doctoral Award ($21,000)
- Stryker Calvez, University of Guelph - Research Topic: Developing a healing space: exploring the effect of worldviews and community participation in healthcare programming
- Carlene Dingwall, University of British Columbia - Research Topic: Indigenous land loss and implications for culturally safe mental health theory and practice
- Thea Luig, University of Alberta - Research Topic: Change, health and policy in northern Aboriginal communities
- Nibisha Sioui, Université du Québec àMontréal - Research Topic: La résilience familiale en milieu Algonquin
- Angela Snowshoe, Western University - Research Topic: Exploring culture as a protective factor in Aboriginal mental health: development and longitudinal validation of a brief enculturation measure
- Janice Victor, University of Victoria - Research Topic: Discourse, agency and self in the community treatment and integration of sexual offenders
2010-2011 Award Recipients
Master̢۪s Award ($18,000)
- Jessie King, University of Northern British Columbia – Research Topic: The identity enigma: evolving First Nations identities
- Billie Jo Rogers, Simon Fraser University – Research Topic: Mental health and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in incarcerated Aboriginal offenders
- Briana Melia, University of Saskatchewan – Research Topic: An exploration of the relationships between family structure and suicidal behaviours among Aboriginal young adults in Canada: Reflections from the 2006 Aboriginal People’s Survey. *Declined
- Tania Smethurst, University of Victoria – Developing a tool to assess Aboriginal youth wilderness programs. *Declined
Doctoral Award ($21,000)
- James Allen, University of Victoria – Research Topic: Constructing a sense of cultural continuity: an analysis of community narratives from Canadian Aboriginal youth
- Jody Burnett, University of Regina – Research Topic: Aboriginal family members' experiences of services and supports for problem gambling: Perceived accessibility and effectiveness
- Stryker Calvez, University of Guelph – Research Topic: Developing a healing space: Exploring the effect of worldviews about community and community participation in social and healthcare programming
- Mireille de la Sablonniere-Griffin, McGill University – Research Topic: Child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities' age-based cohorts analysis of disclosure patterns and actions undertaken by confidants
- Elizabeth Fast, McGill University – Research Topic: Positive racial identity of Aboriginal youth: Does knowledge of historic and ongoing colonialism help
- Thea Luig, University of Alberta – Research Topic: Change, health and policy in northern Aboriginal communities
- Graham Trull, University of Windsor – Research Topic: Well-being in First Nations youth: the role of culture and identity
- Janice Victor, University of Saskatchewan – Research Topic: Discourse, agency and self in the community treatment and integration of sexual offenders
Post-doctoral Award ($42,000)
- Sarah Fraser, McGill University – Research Topic: The elaboration, implementation and evaluation of a culturally-based healing program for Inuit youth in child welfare.
- Krista Maxwell, University of Toronto – Women’s historical consciousness in Canada’s ‘truth and reconciliation’ era: Indigenous and settler subjectivities in urban Ontario. *Declined
2009-2010 Award Recipients
Master̢۪s Award ($18,000)
- Morgan Phillips, Concordia University – Research Topic: Understanding Resilience through Revitalizing Traditional Ways of Healing in a Mohawk Community
Doctoral Award ($21,000)
- James Allen, University of Victoria – Research Topic: Cultural Continuity in Community Narratives from Canadian Aboriginal Youth
- Jody Burnett, University of Regina – Research Topic: Aboriginal Family Members’ Experiences of Services and Supports for Problem Gambling: Perceived Accessibility and Effectiveness
- Stryker Calvez, University of Guelph – Research Topic: Developing a healing space: Exploring the effect of worldviews about community and community participation in social and healthcare programming
- Elizabeth Fast, McGill University – Research Topic: A Comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal child outcomes in the child welfare system: How are addictions and mental health problems that are connected with out of home placement related to residential schools?
- Lily Lessard, Université du Québec àRimouski-(Lévis) – Research Topic: Performance des services offerts aux personnes qui consultant les services de santé de première ligne et qui nécessitent des soins pour des problèmes de santé mentale courants au Nunavik
- Krista Maxwell, University of Toronto – Research Topic: Mental health services and urban Aboriginal peoples (Ontario): An historical ethnography of power-knowledge.
- Christopher Mushquash, Dalhousie University – Research Topic: Development and delivery of personality-motives matched alcohol early interventions for Aboriginal youth in Canada
- Janice Victor, University of Saskatchewan – Research Topic: Discourse, agency, and self in the community treatment and integration of sexual offenders
Post-doctoral Award ($42,000)
- Stéphane Dandeneau, McGill University – Research Topic: Speaking from the heart: Investigating Aboriginal perspectives of resilience
2008-2009 Award Recipients
Master̢۪s Award ($18,000)
- Morgan Phillips, Concordia University – Research Topic: Understanding resilience in the Mohawk communities of Kahnawake and Kanehsatake through the narratives of Mohawk women
Doctoral Award ($21,000)
- Amy Bombay, Carleton University – Research Topic: Factors influencing appraisals and their psychological and physiological responses to severe, mild and ambiguous discrimination scenarios among urban Aboriginal Canadians
- Krista Maxwell, University of Toronto – Research Topic: The mental healthcare system and urban Aboriginal peoples in southern Ontario: An historical ethnography of power-knowledge.
Post-doctoral Award ($42,000)
- Stéphane Dandeneau, McGill University – Research Topic: Speaking from the heart: An Aboriginal perspective of resilience
