This research examines shame among social work students and its role in burnout. Interviews reveal key triggers: emotional coping struggles, perceived privilege, and societal stigma toward the profession. The findings highlight the need for training programs to address shame, improving well-being and enabling future social workers to better support their clients.

This research explores brain stimulation as a safe, low-cost alternative to medication for children with neurological and mental health conditions. Despite promising results across disorders, only a small fraction of studies involve children. The work aims to expand evidence and access, improving global treatment options, especially for low-income populations.

This project proposes “Tinderbox,” a modular, portable housing system for wildfire evacuees. Inspired by the Fort McMurray disaster, it addresses shortcomings of emergency shelters by providing privacy, sanitation, and essential amenities. Easily assembled and reusable, it supports both immediate relief and long-term recovery, improving well-being during disaster displacement.

This research examines how keeping secrets in romantic relationships harms well-being. It introduces “fear of discovery,” the anxiety that secrets will be revealed unintentionally. Findings show this fear increases obsessive thinking and reduces relationship and life satisfaction, offering new insight into why secrecy negatively affects mental health.

This research explores how qualified immigrants navigate career transitions after moving to Canada. Through interviews, it finds that initial motivation often shifts to distress due to systemic barriers. Successful immigrants rely on planning and community support, highlighting the need for both career resources and mental health support to enable meaningful workforce integration.

This research uses wearable data and AI to detect disease earlier by analyzing continuous health signals rather than isolated clinical snapshots. By personalizing models to individual baselines, the system identifies subtle changes linked to conditions like infections, heart issues, and mental health crises, enabling earlier intervention and potentially saving lives.

This research highlights high stress levels in creative industries and examines gaps in post-secondary curricula. By analysing course content through project management theory, it identifies missing focus on risk, conflict, and change management. Integrating these skills could foster healthier, more sustainable work environments for future creative professionals across sectors.

This research examines the overlap between IBS and eating disorder–like behaviours, where conflicting dietary advice creates clinical uncertainty. By interviewing patients and providers, it identifies two distinct groups based on motivation for food restriction. The goal is to develop tools that improve nutrition counselling and support better, safer patient care.

This project explores whether art can reduce stigma around mental health and neurodiversity. Through community-based exhibitions, participatory coloring events, and fundraising for autism support organizations, the artist reframes help-seeking as acceptable and shared. The work positions art as a tool for visibility, dialogue, and collective healing.