Graduate Students Receive a Number of Awards
Three College of Nursing graduate students have received funding for their scholarly work.
The University of Saskatchewan (USask) College of Nursing would like to recognize three graduate students who have recently received funding towards their research.
Lindsey Vold
Program: Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)
Funding: Maple Leaf Foods, the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Saskatoon Graduate Scholarship, and the Saskatchewan Nurses Foundation (SNF) Saskatoon City Hospital Nurses Alumnae Bursary
For her work surrounding Arctic community greenhouses, Lindsey Vold has received a number of awards, including being selected as one of three recipients of a 2020 Maple Leaf Board Scholarship in Food Insecurity. Working with the Inuvik and Kuujjuaq Community Greenhouses, Lindsey will be talking with community residents about their attitudes and experiences towards buying and growing food, in order to determine how to better support services and community-based organizations in their respective communities. Her research is part of a larger project from the Arctic Council that focuses on Arctic food innovation and technologies.
“What we hope to find out is why or why not people participate in community food programs, such as the Community Greenhouse and new technologies, like a hydroponic shipping container garden,” commented Lindsey. “We hope that by listening to residents’ perspectives and ideas about improving and expanding community food programs and technologies that current and future programming is useful, relevant, and specific to the needs of people living in Inuvik and Kuujjuaq. Also, we want to learn if being part of food growing programs affects how much fruit and vegetables people eat and how social relationships take shape within garden memberships.”
Another important aspect of Lindsey’s research is exploring the sustainability and adoption of the above initiatives. As one launching point for Arctic innovation in new technologies, Lindsey is looking forward to describing the processes and outcomes when community organizations, commercial companies, and researchers come together to improve community health.
Lindsey will be doing community surveys and individual interviews, along with social network analysis as part of her research. She is hoping to be in Inuvik in late 2020 and Kuujjuaq in early 2021 to conduct this research.
Kerry Marshall
Program: Master of Nursing - Thesis (MN)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), as part of the Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) - Master's Program.
Kerry’s research project looks at fertility intentions and family planning experiences within the 2SLGBTQ (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) community. This project has received Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) - Master's Program funding.
The purpose of Kerry’s research is to ensure reproductive health care needs are being met in an appropriate, holistic, and comprehensive manner, and to offer health care providers ideas regarding the best ways to support members of the 2SLGBTQ community. “Due to biases around sexuality and gender within the health care system, health care providers may not ask, have specific care regimes, or understand the importance of acknowledging a person’s whole identity when working with members of the 2SLGBTQ community,” said Kerry. “Nurses can challenge the normative nature of current health care practices by discussing the need for diversity and culturally appropriate nursing care, while advocating for more inclusive spaces.”
Kerry will be completing online individual interviews, and plans to incorporate arts-based research by using collage. The objectives of her research include understanding the beliefs and factors that influence family planning and fertility intentions, understanding the experience and needs of the community when accessing family planning related health care, and exploring the ways to support the 2SLGBTQ community pertaining to family planning and fertility intentions.
Shannon Hyslop
Program: Master of Nursing – Thesis (MN)
Funding: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) - Master's Program.
Shannon Hyslop received funding for her thesis research as part of the Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) - Master's Program. She is a part of two interdisciplinary teams at USask that have partnerships with First Nations communities in Saskatchewan and are taking a community-based research approach to look at housing and community design.
In her thesis, Shannon is focusing on housing policies and how they influence housing conditions and health outcomes for First Nations Peoples living on-reserve. Through her research, she aims to influence policy change. “I hope to demonstrate the inadequacy of the current Federal and National-level housing policies for reserves and the health inequities that result from such policies,” said Shannon. “Ultimately, I hope to demonstrate connections between housing policies, housing conditions, and health outcomes that can be leveraged to encourage policy change and lead to sustainable differences in housing quality.”
Shannon will be doing a secondary analysis of data collected through surveys by an interdisciplinary team at USask as a part of her research.
College of Nursing Associate Professor Dr. Wanda Martin has the pleasure of supervising all three graduate students and couldn’t be more proud of the work they are doing. “These students have worked incredibly hard to put together their projects, and have juggled many things to keep progressing during the COVID-19 pandemic. I am very pleased with their abilities to conceptualize and write their proposals, and happy to see the funding come through, which will help them to maintain focus on their research work to complete their studies in a timely manner.”
Congratulations Lindsey, Kerry and Shannon! We look forward to sharing more about your projects as your research progresses.