Congratulations to MA student Grace Denney for winning the graduate-level Best Poster Presentation at the 2023 Psychology Discovery Conference for their poster entitled "How Intersectional Identities Affect Perceived Vulnerability to Prejudice”!
PhD student Emily Cyr will head to York University this fall to pursue her top-ranked proposal on “Boosting Girls’ Belonging and Persistence in STEM by Intervening with Boys” with Dr. Jennifer Steele.
Congratulations to undergraduate student Katie Ashcroft for winning the 2022 Psychology Department honours thesis award for her thesis entitled "White people’s in-the-moment support to Black people following racial discrimination”! This award is given to recognize the strong quality of her thesis research.
Best of luck to Katie for her future research!
Congratulations to graduate student Erik Jansen for winning the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship with his research on “Using a Metamotivational Framework to Improve Team Management”!
Congratulations to grad student Emily Cyr for publishing her research on social networks and gender bias in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences!
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the ESS consortium, including PhD student Emily Cyr and Dr. Bergsieker, co-authored a successful grant proposal with Dr. Kim Jones of McMaster, Ensuring Effective and Equitable Teamwork in Virtual Workplaces, to broaden our understanding of how to pursue remote learning and work without perpetuating inequities.
Congratulations to lab member Harrison Oakes on winning this year’s Governor General’s Gold Medal for Highest Standing in a Doctoral Program! Only one Gold Medal is awarded annually at the University, and Harrison received it for an exceptional scholarly record culminating in his dissertation "Closets Breed Suspicion: Environments that Stigmatize Concealable Identities Raise Doubts about Claims to Contrasting Non-Stigmatized Identities.”
Congratulation to graduate students Pamela Campos-Ordóñez and Jessica Trickey on receiving the SSHRC CGS-M! This scholarship is granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to students who demonstrate a high standard of scholarly achievement, strong personal characteristics, and potential high quality research in their studies in the social sciences and/or humanities, natural sciences and/or engineering and health.
Nice work and good luck on your future research endeavors!
"Open to Everyone: PRISM Interventions Reduce Boys’ Gender Bias and Improve Girls’ Anticipated Fit in STEM", a poster by lab members Emily Cyr and Jake Pavicic, won the top Poster Presentation Award at the Intervention Science preconference at SPSP 2020 in New Orleans. Additionally, DIGR Lab member Erik Jansen won the official SPSP Poster Award for his work with Abby Scholer and David Miele on leadership and meta-motivation.
Dr. Bergsieker won the 2019 Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Women of the Year Award in the STEAM category, recognizing excellence in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. The awards committee noted that "She is not only a scientist herself, but she uses her scientific work to increase the success and participation of other women in science.