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Vivian Stamatopoulos earns Doris Anderson Award
Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos has been thinking about long-term care for nearly a decade, since she was paired, midway through her PhD in Sociology, with Dr. Pat Armstrong, a legendary academic who was researching staffing levels at nursing homes. But it wasn’t until she actually stepped inside an LTC home—after her grandmother moved into one—that she truly understood how radically broken the system was.
Racialized women face significant barriers when seeking mental health care, study finds
A study by Grace Barakat finds poor access to mental health supports and cultural stigmas hold many racialized women back from healing during the pandemic. The research found the majority of respondents were already struggling with mental health before COVID-19 struck and service providers now can't keep up with the increased demand.
Giselle Thompson joins University of Alberta as Assistant Professor
As a Black-Caribbean feminist scholar, Thompson approaches her work from this distinct positionality in partnership with, and in service to, Black Communities in transnational, local, and diasporic contexts. Prior to accepting her appointment as the Assistant Professor of Black Studies in Education at the University of Alberta, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
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