Projects
Current
Safe and Affirming Care
This research adopts a strengths-based approach to explore how 2S/LGBTQIA+ individuals and healthcare providers conceptualize and experience safe and affirming care in hospital-based settings. Specifically, this project will: 1) Enhance conceptual understandings of safe and affirming care through the lens of individuals who receive and provide care in hospital-based settings. 2) Illuminate how safe and affirming care contributes to health and well-being amidst historical and ongoing inequities faced by 2S/LGBTQIA+ people. 3) And ultimately draw on these insights to develop tangible tools and strategies for healthcare providers to enact safe and affirming care for 2S/LGBTQIA+ people. This study is funded through an Island Health Seed Grant and a CIHR Project Grant.
Collective Action
The goal of this project is to harness wisdom from successful collective action efforts during the HIV/AIDS crisis - specifically, the advocacy work of gay men, 2S/LGBTQIA+ community members and health providers - to make meaningful change to promote and protect the health of gay men. We seek to collect this knowledge to inform current advocacy efforts in response to the rise of discrimination targeted at 2S/LGBTQIA+ people. This project is funded by a SSHRC Insight grant.
Nursing Students Experiences of Discrimination-National Survey
This project builds from the Nursing Student Experiences of Discrimination project (see completed projects) and is a partnership with the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN). This national survey has been disseminated in nursing schools across the country with the goal of identifying and redressing discrimination. Mobilization efforts will include developing a webinar in collaboration with CASN in addition to toolkits to support nursing education and curriculum to redress discrimination. This project is funded by a SSHRC Partnership Engaged grant (PEG).