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• Alison Stephens will be presenting her undergraduate honours thesis research at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) in Montreal in June.
• Abby Pew will be presenting her undergraduate honours thesis research (supervisor: Sam Hancock, Western) at CPA in Montreal in June
• Taylor Carroll will be delivering an oral presentation on her research on politics and diversity initiatives at CPA in Montreal in June.
• Amy Barron will be delivering an oral presentation on her PhD research at the International Workshop on Organizational Justice and Behavioral Ethics in Sweden in June.  
• Taylor Carroll will be making two presentations on her PhD research at the Academy of Management Conference in Philadelphia in August.

Very proud of Amy Barron PhD student who won the prestigious 2026 Warren Ober Award for Outstanding Teaching by a graduate student in the Faculty of Arts! 

• Alison Stephens presented a paper based on her 4^th year Directed Studies Course at the annual meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada held in Waterloo.
• Taylor Carroll made two presentations on PhD research projects at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) in Saint John’s.
• Iris Xing presented her MA research at CPA.
• Amy Barron presented a PhD research project at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Copenhagen.

We are excited to welcome two new students to the lab, starting MASc degrees in September 2025!

Alison Stephens, who completed her Honours BA at the University of Waterloo.

Abigail Pew, who completed her Honours BA at Western University.

Our I-O psychology graduate students took the Canadian Psychological Association Conference (June 2024) by storm. They won all three best poster awards (Amy Barron, 1st place; Allister Grapes, 2nd place; Iris Xing, 3rd place), and the best EDI poster award (Pearlyn Ng)!

Two new graduate students joined the FAW Lab: Olha Mendelenko and Iris Xing. Welcome!

• Amy Barron presented her research at the annual meeting of the Society for I/O Psychology in April 2024 (Chicago).
• Taylor Carrol, Amy Barron, and Iris Xing will each present their research projects at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association in June 2024 (Ottawa).

• Iris Xing won a Graduate Scholarship from SSHRC to fund her Master’s degree
• Midori Nishioka defended her PhD in Fall of 2022 and accepted a full-time position as a senior behavioural scientist at Social Machines
• Frank Mu (PhD 2020) accepted a new position as Manager of People Analytics at CI Financial
• Ramona was named a Fellow of the Society for I/O Psychology of the American Psychological Association for her scholarly work and other contributions to the profession
• Harshadaa Deshpande completed her MASc in August 2023
• Muriel Tang completed her MASc in August 2022, and accepted a full-time position as Consultant, People & Change at KPMG
• Frank Mu defended his PhD in October 2020. He accepted a full-time research position in industry, as Assessment Research Manager at CodeSignal
• Lauren Holt completed her MASc in Fall 2020 and accepted a full-time position as Consultant, People & Change, in Management Consulting at KPMG

• Amy Barron and Muriel Tang presented their research at the 83rd Annual National Convention of Canadian Psychological Association in June 2022.
• Midori Nishioka will present her research at 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in August 2022