Research Nova Scotia is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020/2021 Scotia Scholars Doctoral Awards.
The Scotia Scholars Awards were created to provide financial support to research trainees with exceptional potential who are engaged in health research at participating Nova Scotia institutions.
The value and duration of the Scotia Scholars Doctoral Award is up to $15,000 per year, renewable for 3 years. Funds were allocated to Dalhousie University and Saint Mary’s University. The number of awards issued were determined by each university.
Please join us in congratulating the following recipients:
Doctoral Recipients: 14
Total Funding: 366,500
Dalhousie University T-Jay Anderson Project: The EEG-Indexed Auditory Mismatch Negativity as a Biomarker to Predict Psychosis Onset Yvonne Brandelli Project: Pain Hypersensitivity in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Supervisor: Christine Chambers Aleksandra Budarick Project: Informing Physical Activity Guidelines for Knee Osteoarthritis Christopher DeWolfe Project: Understanding the Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity, Catastrophizing, and Physical Activity: A Think-Aloud and Intervention Study Amal El Nabbout Project: Discovering the Biotic and Abiotic Factors Influencing the Overwintering Success of Ixodes Scapularis Ticks in Nova Scotia Ryan Herbison Project: Uncovering the Proximate Mechanisms that the Parasitoid Wasp Cotesia Congregata Uses to Change the Physiology of Tobacco Hornworm Manduca Sexta Gabriella Luongo Project: The Cost of Healthy Eating: Investigating Diet Cost and Dietary Quality in Canada Lydia Muyingo Project: Acculturative Stress and International Student Alcohol Use Supervisors: Sherry Stewart and Simon Sherry Victoria Patterson Project: Prolonged Exposure Psychotherapy for Adverse Events in Early Phase Psychosis with Comorbid Substance Misuse Supervisors: Alissa Pencer and Philip Tibbo Meghan Rossi Project: Implicit Sexual Beliefs and the Trajectories of Sexual Well-Being Among Couples Undergoing Fertility Treatment Kaitlin Sibbald Project: Breaking the Silence: Navigating Mental Illness through Passing and Covering in the Health Professional Culture of Non-Disclosure Madalynn Thompson Project: A Novel Biomaterial Platform for Patient-Specific Modelling of Alzheimer’s Disease Helen Wong Project: The FARE (Food Acquisition Research on Eating) Project: Tracking What We Eat, from Basket to Belly Supervisor: Catherine Mah Saint Mary's University Rhea Stronach Project: The Impacts of Subordinate Incivility on Male and Female Leader Wellbeing: A Multi-Method Investigation Supervisor: Camilla Holmvall
Clinical Psychology
Supervisor: Derek Fisher
Clinical Psychology
Health
Supervisor: Rebecca Moyer
Clinical Psychology
Supervisor: Sherry Stewart
Biology
Supervisor: Shelley Adamo
Doctor of Philosophy
Supervisor: Shelley Adamo
Health
Supervisor: Catherine Mah
Clinical Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Supervisor: Natalie Rosen
Health
Supervisor: Brenda Beagan
Biomedical Engineering
Supervisor: John Frampton
Health
Industrial/Organizational Psychology