Current Projects
Listening to make care labour harm-less: Restorative practices for personal support care (PSC) workers amidst gender and race-based harm (GRBH)
Funded by SSHRC Insight Grant
The Harm-Less Care Labour Project explores how to reduce gendered and racialized harm in care work by affirming the value of Personal Support Care (PSC) labourers through listening, advocacy, and solidarity. Centered on co-creating restorative practices and knowledge-sharing tools, we are collaborating with care workers and stakeholders to build visibility, justice, and community in long-term care settings.
Flavors of Home: Assessing culinary diversity in Ontario's Meals on Wheels services
Funded by Toronto Metropolitan University Initiative Grant
We are conducting two in-depth case studies exploring the provision of culturally diverse meals within Ontario’s Meals of Wheels programs. The findings from the case studies will inform the creation of a province-survey to access the scope and current capabilities of providing culturally-appropriate Meals on Wheels services.
Bold Sky: Co-Designing Persuasive Digital Games to Create Attitude Changes
Funded by NSERC PGS D
We are designing and evaluating an innovative new digital game that uses a Gender Transformative Approach to challenge harmful social and gender norms contributing to intimate partner violence (IPV). By engaging men and boys through interactive gameplay, the research aims to shift attitudes toward gender equality and create a scalable framework for preventing IPV and other social issues.
Justice Reimagined: Social Media Narratives and Platform Design for Sexual Violence Survivors
Funded by NSERC PGS D
This project analyzes how survivors of sexual violence leverage text-based social media platforms to articulate calls for reimagined justice beyond traditional legal or institutional pathways. Findings from survivor narratives and community interactions will inform thoughtful, survivor-centered platform design recommendations.
Completed Projects
We have conducted a systematic narrative synthesis analysis of the policies that are relevant to migrant care workers. We identify policies and practices that obscure care workers and the conditions of their labour, as well as the discriminatory impact of various policies and practices that support devaluing and delegitimizing the identities and labour of care workers. When the erasures, devaluing, and heightened authority come together, a “synergy of failures” emerges with the outcome of unreasonable limits to the autonomy and choice-making capacity of care workers, thus paving the way for human rights violations.
Pathways to Precariousness: Canada’s Intentional Failure of Migrant & Undocumented Care Workers
Funded by SSRHC Knowledge Synthesis Grant
We are in the process of co-designing an innovative new digital technology aimed at shifting the social and gender norms that can lead to intimate partner violence.
Technology-Based Interventions for Preventing Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review
Funded by NSERC PGS D