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Schedule - 2023 ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Graduate Student Research Conference

March 31, 2023

10:00 - 11:00am

Volunteer Orientation & Conference Setup

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Library

11:00am - 12:30pm

Registration/Refreshments/Mingle Session

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Library

1:15 - 2:45pm

Conference Opening Ceremony

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Auditorium
Co-Chairs' Opening Remarks: Amy Leung, Kai Forcey-Rodriguzez, and Sigrid Roman
Welcome Address: Normand Labrie (Interim Associate Dean, Programs)
Keynote Address: Karen Brown (Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario)

3:00 - 4:00pm

Research Poster Showcase

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Library
  • Exploration of Mental Health and Multiple Identities for BIPOC 2SLGBTQ+ Gender-Diverse Emerging Adults (Emma Sorez)

    • Factors that Contribute to the Development of Receptive and Expressive Comprehension of Figurative Language in English Language Learners (ELLs): A Systematic Review (Ayda Ferdossifard)
    • Impact of child labour on literacy and numeracy in Côte d’Ivoire (Mary Claire Ball))
    • The Componential Model of Reading in French Immersion (Youness Robert-Tahiri, Ida Mehrdadi, Zein Abuosebeh)
    • Exploring the Role of Attention on Word Reading in French Immersion Students (Shelley Rafailov, Jiangyuan (John) Lin, Riley Alvarez)
    • A Framework of Work Integrated Learning Based on Disciplines in Universities (Max Gao)
    • Understanding University Curriculum to Address the Canadian Transferable Skills Gap (Christine Mishra)
    • Global Citizenship Education in Estonia - A Case Study of Policy Change (Johanna Helin)
    • The Bakhtinian Carnival Attitude: Exploring Improvisation as a Pedagogical Strategy to Challenge Egoistical Nihilism (Anwen Zhang)
    • Are all international learning experiences the same? Investigating the influence of program type characteristics (Marianthi Kontelli)
    • Sink or Swim: First-Year Employed Students and Persistence (Margaret Deleon)
    • How Institutional Isomorphism is Shaped by Distinctive ‘Glonacal Agency’: Hong Kong’s Response to The Global Universities Ranking System (Augustine Hung)

4:00 - 4:30pm

Break

4:45 - 5:30pm

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Alumni Fireside Chat: "Sparking Alumni Diverse Connections"

SJE Lounge (12th floor)
Moderator: Kristina Leis
Panellists: Dr. Cindy Sinclair, Dr. Carol Nash, and Dr. Jamil Kalim

4:45 - 6:15pm

Networking Event

Nexus Lounge
Industry, Community, Faculty, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Alumni Association

April 1, 2023

8:00 - 9:00am

Volunteer Orientation & Conference Setup

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Library

9:00 - 10:00am

Registration/Refreshments; Art Reflection in Library

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Library

10:15 - 11:45am

Research Talks and Q & A

  • Room
    OI 5160
    • The Right to Learn: Children's Rights and Elementary Education (Elke Crosson)
    • Dreams and displacement: positioning internally displaced youth in Nigeria as knowledge creators (Jennifer Chinenye Emelife)
    • Centering Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Pedagogy in Early Years Literacy (Hardeep Shergill)
    • The Influence of Social Inequalities in Student Occupational Expectations (Yehyeon (Ann) Yoo)
  • Room
    OI 5170
    • Integrating Taoist Curriculum Wisdom into Teaching (Ruodan Wang)
    • Teaching While Black An Emotional Journey (Jamil Kalim)
  • Room
    OI 5230
    • Meaningful Access to Agency and Online Communities: Implications for Community Development (Silvia Nguyen,
      Tuaha Mubarak)
    • A Journey Towards Allyship: How Middle-Class, Second Generation South Asian Canadian Mothers Challenge Anti-Black Racism (Shalina Khanna)
    • Toward Global Critical Consciousness for Liberatory Pedagogy in the West (Madison Laurin)
    • Supporting Complex Collaboration Across Multiple Boundaries in Engineering Education (Anuli Ndubuisi)
  • Room
    OI 5250
    • The predictability of high-stake exams to academic writing: A Chinese perspective (Rui Dong Chen)
    • New Literacies in the Age of Misinformation (Rana Haidar)
    • Applying Design Thinking Approach in English for Tourism Course (Thi Chang Duyen Can)
    • Supporting immigrant families to maintain their heritage language and promoting parental involvement using home-based STEM activities (Sudhashree Girmohanta)
  • Room
    OI 5260
    • The Tensions in the Local-Global Interplay of Education: The Colonizing Nature of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) Enacted in the International Schools in Asia (Jennie Kim)
    • Understanding Community Women Leadership in the African Context (Rachael Kalaba)
    • Formal Teacher Leadership and the Education Management Hierarchy (Rema Passarelli)
    • How Leadership Education in Universities in Mainland China could be Improved (Rurui Liu)
  • Room
    OI 5270
    • Nature and Physical-Based Mental Health Supports for Adolescents During COVID-19 (Talin Atikian)
    • Supporting Mental Recovery and Wellbeing of Injured Athletes (Jotthi Bansal)
    • How Undergraduate Students Understand, Learn ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ and Act in Support of Their Wellbeing (Lauren Brown)
  • Room
    OI 5280
    • Pilot testing as a strategy to develop Interview and Questionnaire Skills for Scholar Practitioners: A selection of Education Doctorate Students' Reflective Vignettes (Bill (Yuan Hong) Sun)
    • Interlinkages between Teacher Transfer Policy and School Culture in a Dark Zone of India (Elwin Varughese)
    • Beyond Covid-19: A call for Advocacy through Innovation and the Pivotal Role of Leadership in Effectuating Change (Henry Ssali, Shelly Khushal, Justin Patrick, Zian (Kelly) Zhang)
  • Room
    OI 5290
    • Interrogating and Pursuing Liminality as an act of Resistance within Canadian adult education for Black transnationals (Kameka Morrison)
    • Co-Constructing New Pathways Forward in Adult Education Through Reflexive Storytelling and Art (Vidya Sri)
    • Re-Storying, Truth-Telling and Response-abilities: An Autoethnographic Genre Analysis on Gladue Reporting, Methodologies, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing within a Colonial Institution (Taylor Rubin)
    • The Path to Love: Learning Identity and Expansiveness in Teaching and Learning (Stephanie Fowler)

12:00 - 1:00pm

Lunch & Network

Nexus Lounge

1:15 - 2:45pm

Community-Based Research & Researcher-Practitioner Engagement Panel

Library Stage
Moderator: Sigrid Roman
Panellists: Professor Bettina von Lieres, Professor Leslie Chan and Karen Villanueva

2:50 - 3:30pm

Teaching Human Rights and the Holodomor Genocide in Ukraine

Library Stage
Presenter: Sophia Isajiw

3:45 - 5:15pm

Roundtables/Workshops

  • Room
    OI 5160

    Understanding the educational experience of autistic learners during COVID-19 in Ottawa, Canada (Tracey Evans)

  • Room
    OI 5170

    Secondary Students’ Perceptions on Seeking Help for Adverse Childhood Experiences from Educators at School (Roilui Sin)

  • Room
    OI 5230

    Storying Inclusion and Exclusion in Higher Education (Dani Dilkes)

  • Room
    OI 5250

    Critical Literacy and Stories as tools for Anti-Islamophobia Education (Rabia Khokhar)

  • Room
    OI 5260

    Tough Choices and Difficult Decisions: Engaging in Educational Ethics (Tina Ta)

  • Room
    OI 5270

    Harnessing an Entrepreneurial Mindset along the Innovation Journey in Higher Education (Rashpal Uppal-Assi)

  • Room
    OI 5280

    The Risk Factors and Preventative Methods of Self-Harm and Suicidality for Autistic People (Kai Forcey-Rodriguez)

  • Room
    OI 5290

    The ESCAPE Project: Embracing newcomer parents’ and students’ funds of knowledge for effective and language friendly teaching in Canadian schools through digital tools (Sudhashree Girmohanta, Leanne Adegbonmire, Ye Jia, Rosalia Cha, Ana Tariq)

April 2, 2023

8:00 - 9:00am

Volunteer Orientation & Conference Setup

Nexus Lounge

9:00 - 10:00am

Registration/Refreshments; Art Reflection

Nexus Lounge

10:15 - 11:45am

Research Talks and Q & A

  • Room
    OI 5160
    • Policies of (In)equity and (Un)inclusion (Christina Caleca)
    • Contributing factors to attrition among minority student affairs professionals in higher education (Tiara DeKoning)
    • Problematizing Modern Approaches in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) Therapy (Alexandra Devitt)
  • Room
    OI 5170
    • Teaching formal mathematics through a mathematical literacy focused curriculum (Sisi Feng)
    • The Effects of Online Learning Environment in Higher Education among Western and Asian Countries (Yibo Zeng)
    • Supporting Mental Health Literacy Education: Perspectives from Northern and Rural Elementary Educators in Ontario (Alexandra Santos)
    • Highlighting Gaps in the Implementation of Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Elementary Ontario Science Curriculum (Fagun Kaushik)
  • Room
    OI 5230
    • Experiential Learning and Capital Acquisition Through a Domestic Canadian Student Exchange Program (Ashley Rostamian)
    • Exploring the Role of Disclosure in the Development of Disability Identity in Postsecondary Students (Erin Anderson)
    • Race and Language in ESL programs in Toronto (Lisa Lackner)
    • Ontario French immersion students’ perspectives: Connecting learners’ goals sociolinguistic development, and ongoing enrolment (Gabrielle Forget)
  • Room
    OI 5250
    • The Human in Human Capital: Understanding International Student Success in the Backdrop of Canada’s International Education Strategy 2019–2024 (Alison D'Cruz)
    • Being under the roof of an inclusive and anti-racist leader: Experiences and attitudes of trans students and their parents – implications for educational leadership (Manuel Joseph Ellul)
    • Is it Influenced by Research?: A Policy Analysis of a Student Mental Health Strategy (Abigail Fisher)
    • A Multi-level Analysis of Language-in-Education Policies toward Syrian students in Türkiye (Selcuk Emre Ergut)
  • Room
    OI 5260
    • The Myth of Ocnus (Steve Tu)
    • What difference is my research making? Using ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½â€™s Research Impact Toolkit to look beyond academia (Christine Corso)
    • Interlinkages between Teacher Transfer Policy and School Culture in a Dark Zone of India (Elwin Varughese)
    • Weathering foreign influences: Vietnam facing Chinese and French transplantation in education (Tien Pham)
  • Room
    OI 5270
    • Secondary School Teachers’ Practical Wisdom and Its Manifestation in Language Arts Class: A Narrative Inquiry (Shamina Shaheen)
    • The Five-Minute Interview Assessment: An Intervention for Developing Feedback Literacy in Middle School Students (Sarina Sabet Sarvestany)
    • Nurturing Collective Sustainable Well-being in School Communities (Emily Dobrich)
    • 'You Don’t Even know You’re Triaging an Eating Disorder': Exploring Disordered Eating in Education (Michelle Richardson)
  • Room
    OI 5280
    • How sustainability impacted my research in Language and Literacies Education (Ma Guadelupe Sanchez Sandoval)
    • Resistance, Neoliberalism & Education Within Community Legal Clinics (Oriel Varga)
    • A longitudinal study of leadership-as-practice during the implementation of the Chilean Public Education Reform (Isabel Margarita Nunez Carbullanca)
    • From Descriptive to Predictive Analytics: How far are higher education institutions prepared to go with predictive analytics? (Xiangyun Zheng)
  • Room
    OI 5290
    • (Re)imagining research with children: learning and making meaning with children in dynamic, inclusive, and participatory ways (Nidhi Menon)
    • The Effect of Parental Factors and Learning-Related Skills on Academic Outcomes in Rural Côte d’Ivoire (Medha Aurora, Lujayn Mostafa)
    • Unintended consequences? A Study of Third-party Arrangements between Ontario public colleges and private career colleges (Laurel Schollen)

12:00 - 1:00pm

Lunch & Network

Nexus Lounge

1:00 - 1:15pm

Artwork Reflection/Conference Artwork Ceremony

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Auditorium
Conference Artwork Winner: Faduma Hassan
Conference Artwork Competitors: Silvia Nguyen, Jasmine Biloki, Marianne Botros, and Vidya Sri

1:15 - 2:00pm

Ukrainian Dance Performance and Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) Durham Ukrainian Relief Project Presentation

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Auditorium
Performers: Barvinok Ukrainian Dance School
Presenter: Dimitry Avdeev

2:00 - 3:45pm

Real Estate and Industry Panel

²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Auditorium
Moderator: Kai Forcey-Rodriguez
Panellists: Richard Lyall, Tara Silver, and Jennifer Low

4:00 - 5:30pm

Roundtables/Workshops

  • Room
    OI 5160

    Community Arts Education: An Informal Transformative Learning Process to Develop Collective Community Consciousness and Autonomy (Marianne Botros)

  • Room
    OI 5170

    Let's Heart-Brain-storm: Student Life & How Best to (co-)Learn/Teach Self+Other Care (Lynne Alexandrova)

  • Room
    OI 5230

    Your life as a model of interinstitutional learning dynamics (Ashraf Rushdy)

  • Room
    OI 5250

    The GEE Project: An Urban Community Initiative (Ihnaha Grace Kim)

5:30 - 6:30pm

Conference Closing Ceremony

Nexus Lounge
Co-chairs' Closing Remarks: Amy Leung, Kai Forcey-Rodriguzez, and Sigrid Roman
Closing Keynote Speaker: Canadian Teachers' Federation
Closing Address: Normand Labrie (Interim Associate Dean, Programs)

6:30 - 7:00pm

Conference Closing Reception

Nexus Lounge