The lab normally includes about 10 people each year; volunteer and paid research assistants, honors students, graduate students, and others. We have a great group. For 2023–2024, the lab will mostly include graduate students.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Aleah Fontaine, B.A. Hon. Psychology, M.A. Clinical Psychology (University of Manitoba)
Ph.D. Candidate (Year 4), Clinical Psychology, and Predoctoral Clinical Intern
Funding: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and other awards
Aleah is an Anishinaabe, English, Scottish, German, and Welsh Winnipegger, and is a member of Sagkeeng First Nation. Recognizing the impact social structures and conditions have on health, Aleah’s research interests include social justice, intergroup relations, and mental well-being, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Currently, Aleah is exploring the relationships between emotional responses to social injustice and solidarity.
Caitlin Ferry, B.Sc. Hon. Psychology (Acadia University) and Biology (University of Winnipeg)
M.A. Student (Year 1), Clinical Psychology
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Master’s and other awards
Caitlin is an English-Métis, Ukrainian and Polish woman raised in Winnipeg and the Red River area. Caitlin’s research interests include social justice, intergroup relations, reconciliation or improving relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada. Currently, Caitlin is exploring the effect of norms on (de)colonized symbols in Canada.
Erin Sinclair, B.A. Hon. Psychology (University of Winnipeg)
M.A. Student (Year 1), Clinical Psychology
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Master’s and other awards.
Erin is an Anishinaabe-Irish woman and member of Oshki-Ishkonigan (Peguis First Nation). Erin’s research interests include reconciliation, solidarity, collective action, as well as prejudice and discrimination. For her master’s thesis, Erin is exploring how education through storytelling impacts the way people think about issues that are important to Indigenous communities and methods to increase knowledge about the previous and ongoing harm toward Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirited Peoples.
Erin White, B.A. Hon. Psychology, M.A. Clinical Psychology (University of Manitoba)
Ph.D. Student (Year 1), Clinical Psychology
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Master’s and other awards
Erin is a Métis and Irish woman from Winnipeg. Her research focuses on intergenerational trauma, cultural connection, a sense of belonging, and reconciliation. For her dissertation, Erin is developing a measure of cultural connection and will be investigating the link between cultural connection and well-being among Indigenous peoples.
Jaden Dela Rosa, B.A. Hon. Psychology (University of Manitoba)
M.A. Student (Year 1), Social and Personality Psychology
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Master’s and other awards
Jaden is a Filipino, French, and German woman from Winnipeg. Jaden’s research interests include reconciliation, social justice, solidarity, and intergroup relations. For her master’s thesis, Jaden is investigating whether drawing attention to similar experiences among groups that experience discrimination can increase non-Indigenous people's political solidarity with Indigenous peoples and how much various emotional responses to injustice play a role.