Community involvement in research ethics governance
2021-2024
This project, supervised by Dr. Phoebe Friesen and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, involved a scoping review of the strategies, demands, and justifications that communities, broadly defined (e.g., BIPOC, rare disease, and so on), have put forward with regard to their involvement in governing research that impacts them.
My work on Dr. Friesen's project consisted primarily in highlighting the epistemic dimensions of injustice in Canada's system of research oversight. Our analysis will be published in an upcoming (2025) issue of Ethics and Human Research.
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Philosophical perspectives on Canada's COVID-19 response
2020-2021
Each year, McGill's Institute of Health and Social Policy awards 7-10 GAP fellowships to graduate students whose research is connected to understanding how social conditions impact population health and welfare. As a participant in the GAP program, I developed the policy implications of my doctoral research. My analysis focused specifically on Canada's equity response to COVID-19.
Is 'race' a risk factor for vitamin D deficiency?
A critical appraisal of Quayshawn Spencer's genuine kind realism
2018-2019
This project was done in collaboration with McGill's biology department and under the supervision of Professors Eran Tal and Natalie Stoljar. It formed the basis of my PhD candidacy (qualifying) paper.
This research was presented at The University of Pennsylvania's conference on the philosophy of race (organized by MAP-Penn).
The Equality Project
2016-2018
The Equality Project is a collective and interdisciplinary effort funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The project highlights feminist participants in the querelle des femmes, a debate about the nature and worth of women that unfolded in Europe from the Middle Ages to the early modern period.
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My work on the project included research, translation, supervising undergraduate research, and maintaining the project’s website. I also co-authored the entry on the querelle des femmes in the Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences with Professor Marguerite Deslauriers, one of the project's principal investigators.
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