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Soroptimist Foundation of Canada grants include:
Grants for Women - 4 annual, $7500 each, for post graduate study;
Grants for Women
Ashley Hayward
If you wish to be in contact with any of the winners please e-mail chair@soroptimistfoundation.ca.
Ashley Hayward
PhD Peace and Conflict Studies University of Manitoba
Ashley has served on volunteer Board of Directors for organizations such as Agape House, a crisis shelter for women and children escaping family violence, and teaches in the Walls to Bridges format alongside Karen Ridd at the Women's Correctional Centre in Headingley, Manitoba. Ashley's doctoral research focuses on Indigenous maternal and child health. As a community engaged researcher, Ashley works in partnership with a range of Indigenous organizations including the Manitoba Association of Friendship Centres and Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre of Winnipeg, Inc. Her research is community-driven and collaborative, creating a bridge between academia and social services. Her work supports community organizations with evidence-based research and she plans to continue working with community organizations following the competition of her degree.
Judy Parnell
Masters Distance Education Athabasca University
Now, over 14-years later, Judy has returned to Athabasca with an even stronger determination of using her professional and personal experience to assist Canadian disabled chronic pain patient. With 70% of chronic pain patients being women, there is an immense need for research and programs for Canadian female chronic pain patients. Judy's focus is now on developing research and programs designed to help other Canadian chronic pain patients, especially Canadian women, and young girls.
Kailey DeLucry
Kailey became a member of the Saint John Down Syndrome Society when Sam was born, and this group ignited her desire to work closely with those who have intellectual disabilities. During her undergraduate degree, Kailey was a member turned co-president of Best Buddies. Currently, she is a member of Astonished!. Kailey has made many friends along the way, and these friends opened her eyes to a specific obstacle faced by those with disabilities—appropriate sexual education. After completing her PhD, Kailey plans to move back to New Brunswick to work with families, children, and adolescents in the area of intellectual disabilities and sexual health using a feminist perspective.
Pauline Song
PhD Student University of Victoria
Her life experiences from around the world have shaped the direction of her career, and she is passionate about creating accessible mental healthcare for cultural minority women and their families. She completed her undergraduate degree in Child, Youth, and Family at the University of Guelph, and this focus on family systems and positive development has continued to shape her understanding of how women relate to their world. Pauline's research has revolved around examining predictors of intimate partner violence over the transition to parenthood. Women are disproportionately the victims of intimate partner violence in Canada. Further, minority women are less likely to access mental healthcare, and are more likely to have adverse mental health outcomes than non-minority women. When considering what is needed in order to provide minority women with culturally-attuned and supportive mental healthcare, our public system is still woefully ill-equipped. Minority women and their families who are in crisis need better supports. Pauline's career goals are focused on finding efficient and creative ways for the Canadian public mental healthcare system to address these unique needs.
Shawna Narayan
Masters of Science in Experimental Medicine University of British Columbia
Tait de St. Croix
Masters Student in Applied Health Science University of Waterloo
Tait works to ensure that her research is done in an inclusive way, wanting to guarantee that individuals with dementia are included in the study for proper representation. This is important to her because there are approximately 76,000 new cases of dementia diagnosed in Canada, a year (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2018). She sees it as prevalent and necessary that research is done to include these aging adults. Tait's philosophy background draws her towards ethical concerns in our current system, and encourages her to strive to include a moral principle within her work, and help to identify spaces of positive growth for the aging population. Women make up more than half of the aging population, and being a woman herself, Tait takes pride in helping this population of aging adults. Being a woman gives Tait insight to her research and introduced a feminist lens on her work, providing opportunity for women to be heard in research with their word being taken as it is, the truth. One of her current hopes is to see Canadian women be properly represented in research, including representation of all ages, races, abilities, and socio-economic status, which allows researchers to hear them and their experiences, and make real change. Tait's hope for the future is to identify a system which can support our aging population, and overall minimize the abuse, neglect, and bias felt by aging women, as well as the entire aging population in long term care homes. | ||
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