Provides students with the opportunity to work with a faculty member on one of their ongoing research projects and/or within the community.
- Completion of all degree requirements from year one to year three
- 75 percent major average
- 75 percent combined average in CHYS 3P10 and 3P15
- 60 percent non major average
- CHYS 4F95 and 4P70 (see program note 6)
- one CHYS credit numbered 3(alpha)90 or above
- one-half CHYS credit numbered 4(alpha)00 or above
Projects
Theses based in Special Needs Activity Program (SNAP) may be an empirical study using analysis of collected data from the program site and /or participants, may be conceptual / literature based, may be descriptive–interpretive—this depends on the student’s interests, disposition, and organizational and planning skills.
Regardless of the approach and design, SNAP is an activity program for children, youth, teens and young adults with various disabilities, and offers developmentally appropriate, relevant and meaningful movement experiences in a Station Based Pedagogy approach.
Students interested in exploring issues related to and/or experiences of children, youth, teens and young adults with disabilities, and in particular in active play contexts, will enjoy this type of experience.
This project is a partnership between Heather Ramey’s research team and the Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement at the Students Commission of Canada (https://www.studentscommission.ca). The Students Commission works with many other partner organizations. Their purpose is to ensure that young people are valued, heard and their ideas for improving themselves, the lives of their peers and communities are put into action. This work focuses on various topics, such as healthy relationships, climate change, and youth leadership.
As a research team member, you will work as part of the research team on one of a number of possible applied projects. Project could involve designing or facilitating youth programs, evaluating programs, or analyzing existing data. Your project will be decided upon after a meeting with Heather and the Students Commission.
For this project students will conduct research in the Developmental Processes in Health and Well-Being lab aimed at understanding how perfectionism is experienced by teens and their families. As a research team member, students will work as part of a research team on one of a number of possible applied projects. Projects could involve working with physiological and behavioural data to understand how young perfectionists experience stress; interviewing young people and family members about their lived experiences of perfectionism; designing and facilitating a photo exhibition about how young people and their parents experience perfectionism day-to-day, or design and facilitate educational workshops aimed at decreasing perfectionism among student
Child welfare agencies, practitioners, and scholars are continuously reviewing programs and evaluating outcomes to assess if and how child protection work is anti-oppressive, family-centered, and anti-carceral (vis-à-vis integrating least intrusive methods of intervention). In this project option, students would have the opportunity to explore issues of relevance to frontline child welfare practice and management. Topic areas may include:
- Implementation of harm reduction philosophies in child welfare policies and practice
- Assist with review or development of programs at local child welfare organizations.
- Assess the relevance and applicability of curriculum and educational outcomes in Child and Youth Studies with child protection social work.
This project is a collaboration between Dr. Rebecca Raby’s and Dr. Christine Tardif-Williams’ research team and a local service organization that addresses homelessness. For two years we have been conducting research in an after-school program to understand children’s (ages 8-14) experiences of living in a shelter for homeless families. Our research project involves conducting ongoing participant observation, including arts-based and interactive activities, and we have also interviewed staff members.
As a research team member, you will work as part of the research team on one of a number of possible projects. Projects could include spending time with homeless children in the after-school program and engaging in participant observation, designing and facilitating creative, arts-based activities, interviewing children about their experiences living in shelter, with friends, family, and pets and within sports and at school, and organizing, analyzing and preparing written or oral summaries of existing data. Your individual project will be negotiated at a meeting with Dr. Raby and Dr. Tardif-Williams.
Research in the Developmental Neuroscience lab looks at how children and young people understand language and direct their attention as well as the cognitive, sensory and mental health factors that relate to this processing.
As a research team member, you will gain valuable research experience and skills as you work with children, their families and young adults. These may include using an eye tracker or EEG, administering language, reading and executive function tasks, collecting parent and self-report questionnaires of mental health and wellbeing, communicating with families and obtaining informed consent, entering and scoring neuropsychological data, organizing data files, summarizing data, helping to recruit participants at community events and helping out with knowledge mobilization, including sharing our findings on social media. This project will be in collaboration with Drs. Erin Panda, Suzanne Curtin and Ayda-Tekok-Kilic.