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Congratulations to honours thesis student Ashling Ayekun for receiving one of the Departmental Thesis Awards for her honours thesis entitled: "(Dis)Comfort Disclosing and Discussing Experiences of Racism Across Racial Lines"  

Hilary Bergsieker and Vincent Yzerbyt (of UCLouvain in Belgium) were awarded a 2025 SSHRC Insight Development Grant for their research project entitled: "Identifying Illusory Indirect Effects and Indexing Individual-Level Variation in Mediation Analysis”.

Congratulations to grad student Shawn Yee for being awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) for his research project entitled: "Do Enacted Support and Apparent Race Affect Well-Being in Online Discussions of Racism?"  

Congratulations to grad student Jessica Trickey for being awarded the Tri-Council SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Doctoral Scholarship for her research project entitled: "It Is My Place: Exploring the Competing Roles of Responsibility and Relevance for Allyship Action"  

Congratulations to grad student Jessica Trrickey for being awarded the CPA Scientific Affairs Committee Student Research Grant for her project entitled: "It Is My Place: Exploring the Competing Roles of Responsibility and Relevance for Allyship Action"  

Congratulations to DIGR Lab PhD, MA, and honours students and recent alumni for successfully presenting nine posters at SPSP, plus two talks in a lab-led symposium entitled "Do Cross-Race Friends Effectively Disclose, Share Reality, and Recognize Racism?"  

Congratulations to lab alum (and current collaborator) Erik Caceros for winning the best poster award at the SPSP 2025 Self & Identity pre-conference for his poster entitled: "Responsive Support to Disclosures of Racism: Expectations and Well-Being Implications."

Hilary Bergsieker and Jessica Trickey shared results from Engendering Success in STEM projects at the Network Gender & STEM Conference 2024 in Heidelberg, Germany.