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Congratulations to Jenessa Shaw for being awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for her PhD research! Jenessa's PhD research will further advance the understanding of the association between emotional distress tolerance and self-compassion. See here for information about Jenessa's MA research.

Congratulations to Sydney Waring for submitting her Clinical Psychology PhD dissertation on relational body image to the University of Waterloo! Sydney will be defending her dissertation on June 22nd.

Congratulations to Michelle Korlacka for being awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for her masters research! Michelle's research is investigating how self-compassion-based interventions can promote distress reduction.

Congratulations to Aleece Katan and Allison Kelly for their recent article published in the Journal of Eating Disorders! Aleece's research investigates the association between daily self-compassion and adaptive coping behaviors in women with bulimia nervosa.

An interview with Sydney Waring, a Psychology PhD candidate, regarding her PhD research on relational body image was featured in The Record. The study has been published in the journal Body Image. The study results suggest that young women's body image (i.e. the way they feel about their body) is affected by how accepted they feel by others as well as how body-preoccupied others are around them.

An interview with Dr Allison Kelly regarding the research study "Compassion, social connectedness and trauma resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-national study" was featured in The Record. The study is looking at how people are coping with the current pandemic and aims to assess whether compassion for oneself and for others can reduce the impact of stress caused by this pandemic. Anyone interested in taking part in the study can find the survey here.

Congratulations to Sydney Waring for being awarded the Student Poster Award at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research!

Waring, S. V., & Kelly, A. C. (2019, June). Investigating relationship-specific variations in perceived unconditional acceptance and body image. Poster presented at the 2019 Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI.

Congratulations to Dr. Allison Kelly, who was presented with the award for Outstanding Scientific Contribution for the paper entitled  "A feasibility study of a 2-week self-compassionate letter-writing intervention for nontreatment seeking individuals with typical and atypical anorexia nervosa" at the 2019 International Conference on Eating Disorders. 

The Self-Attitudes Lab published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Body Image showing that body image is impacted by those around you, this research is featured in Waterloo News.