I'll be attending the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology's Annual Convention for the first time this year (2024). 

While in Chicago, I plan to participate in the following:

• the Doctoral Student Consortium

• as a panelist regarding ‘The Mental Load: A Conversation Between Researchers and Employees/Practitioners’. I'll be stepping in for Ivona Hideg, as I am a collaborator on a paper regarding the mental load.

This will be my first of two trips planned for Chicago this year, and only the first of a few conferences I'll be presenting at this summer! Here's to the beginning of a wonderful conference season.

At the Academy of Management (AOM)'s 83rd Annual Convention (2023), I'll be participating in the following events:

• serving as an 'Upper-Year Expert' for the New Doctoral Student Symposium

• acting as a discussant for the Advancing Gender Equity and Diversity in the Workplace: The Role of Allyship and Leadership symposium

• presenting a paper in the The Plight of the Vulnerable Workplace: Theoretical and Empirical Advancements symposium

I'm looking forward to it as this is my first in-person AOM!

I recently wrote a blog on 'Saying No: A Skill and Guide' for HICCUP, a hub meant to shed light on the Hidden Curriculum in Psychology. You can read it on their website. 

I'll be speaking at the Canadian Psychological Association's 2023 convention as a panelist with the "Conversation with CSIOP's EDI Working Group." Taking place on Fri. June 23rd at 11 AM, come hear me and the other CSIOP (Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) EDI working Group members speak about our experience. 

In many PhD programs, students take comprehensive exams, which is meant to test whether students demonstrate a certain level of knowledge and proficiency. These usually occur after students have completed their coursework, and what is exactly tested along with how students are tested can differ by their program or area. For instance, my comprehensive exams included 9 days of writing papers, while I know of others who have 3 hours to write a paper along with an oral exam. Students need to pass these usually to remain and continue in their program. 

I wrote mine at the end of April 2023, and am happy to have learned that I passed! Comprehensive exams - in my area, at least - are pass/fail. 

Next steps in my PhD program therefore include me teaching,  along with developing, proposing, and completing my dissertation!

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) awards doctoral fellowships every year, these being scholarships that doctoral students can hold for up to 4 years. I'm honoured to receive one as decisions are primarily made based on the perceived quality of one's research proposal; that is, the judges liked my submitted research proposal and decided to fund me to conduct this research during the rest of my PhD. More about the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships in general can be found on this website.

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in North America, there was a rise of anti-Asian racism. Along with Drs. Winny Shen, Ivona Hideg, Christianne Varty, and Anja Krstic, I studied the experiences of East and Southeast Asian Canadian and American employees during this time, specifically how facing COVID-19 related anti-Asian racism impacted their wellbeing and work-related attitudes and behaviours. Our paper on this is now published and available with open-access on the Applied Psychology: An International Review website. 

On October 12, 2022, I will be presenting my project on male allies for gender equality in the workplace at York University's Global Labour Resource Centre's Graduate Student Symposium. My presentation will be part of the Gender Equity, Equality, and Diversity session from 9:15 - 10:45 AM EST. The program for this conference may be found on the Global Labour Resource Centre's website.

I will be a panelist at the Ontario SPOR Support Unit's Research Day on September 29, 2022 at 10:30 AM, discussing the Youth Wellness Quest project. We will cover how this youth-led research project could become a tool intended and accessible to youth, with youth involved in every part of the project. Update: a video of the panel is now available on Youtube.