Meet Team Giles
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Shawn Forde |
Ph.D. Students
Yvonne James Michelle Bauer |
Master's Students
Amina Haggar Jaime Carpenter Jessica Webb Julia Hamer Avery Holmes Nora McRae Sydney Smith |
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Shawn Forde
Shawn Forde is a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Dr. Audrey Giles. He completed his MA and PhD at the University of British Columbia. His masters research examined sports-based HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in southern Africa. Shawn’s PhD research was supported by a SSHRC scholarship and was concerned with how various groups mobilize in and around sport for the purposes of social change. This primarily involved an examination of FIFA’s Football for Hope program, as well as an ethnographic and historic look at the social and political role that soccer played in a particular South African community during and after apartheid. Throughout his MA and PhD research, Shawn utilized arts-based research methods including sketching, drawing, and comics. His current work is connected to Dr. Giles’ SSHRC funded research project that is analyzing ‘sport for reconciliation’ efforts in Canada, Australia, and Aoteroa/New Zealand. Shawn enjoys reading, drawing, soccer, and spending time with family. Yvonne James Yvonne James is a fourth year Ph.D candidate in the institute of Feminist and Gender Studies. Yvonne holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Women’s Studies. In 2013 Yvonne was awarded her Master of Arts degree from the University of Ottawa. Her major research paper explored constructions of ‘bad’ mothers in academia. Since graduation, Yvonne has worked as a research associate at the Pan-Canadian Health Human Resources Network. In July 2014 Yvonne worked on a team that was awarded a CIHR planning grant. Yvonne’s Ph.D research stems from these funds, and will examine Canadian midwives’ capacity to deliver maternity care in the context of birth centres. Yvonne is co-supervised by Dr. Ivy Bourgeault. Her research is funded by SSHRC. Michelle Bauer Michelle Bauer is in her third year of her PhD in Population Health at the University of Ottawa. She has a BA in Psychology from Concordia University and MA in Human Kinetics from the University of Ottawa. Her OGS and SSHRC-funded and Department of National Defence sponsored PhD thesis research explores military parents' perspectives of combat, injury, parenting, and children's play. She is co-supervised by Dr. Audrey Giles (uOttawa) and Dr. Mariana Brussoni (UBC). Her current academic projects explore parents' perspectives on children's serious play-related injuries, understanding children's disabilities within play contexts, and approaching child and family safety from interdisciplinary and social justice standpoints. Outside of academia, she enjoys playing sports, spending time with friends, family, and her cat Freya, and travelling. Amina Haggar Amina Haggar is a third year Master of Arts in Human Kinetics student. She received her Bachelor of Science with specialization in Human Kinetics from the University of Ottawa in 2017. Her honour's project in her last year of undergraduate studies was completed under the supervision of Dr. Audrey Giles and focused on corporate social responsibility and how extractive companies represent Indigenous-targeted sport for development initiatives on social media. Her thesis-based MA research, which has been accepted for funding through the SIRC Researcher/Practitioner Match Grant program, examines the participation of second generation African Canadian adolescent girls involved in a community sport program in Ottawa using intersectionality theory. She is collaborating with the City of Ottawa and the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity to complete this project. Outside of her academic pursuits, Amina's hobbies include learning new languages, hosting waste diversion and recycling workshops on campus, assisting with health promotion and community engagement initiatives at her local community health centre, and playing badminton with her fellow Team Giles lab mate and friend Michelle. Jaime Carpenter Jaime Carpenter is an Indigenous student in the second year of her Master’s degree in Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa. In 2018 she graduated from Plymouth State University (PSU) in New Hampshire, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Promotion. Throughout her four years at PSU, she competed on the varsity women’s ice hockey team. With her background in hockey, and identifying as Indigenous, her research interests include examining female Indigenous hockey players who have to leave their home communities to pursue a sport. Jaime’s hobbies include spending time with family, friends, and her dogs, along with still playing hockey, going to the gym, and traveling. Jessica Webb Jessica Webb is a second year Master's student in the Faculty of Human Kinetics. After graduating from the University of British Columbia in 2013, Jessica spent six years working with women and children in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. She is a co-founder of Taking Steps: Warrior Women's Wellness program - a coalition project between YWCA Crabtree Corner and UBC School of Nursing. Under the supervision of Dr. Francine Darroch at Carleton University and Dr. Audrey Giles, Jessica's current research involves the role of physical activity and fathers' wellness in the DTES. In her free time Jessica likes singing karaoke, tending to her plants and all things Beyoncé. Julia Hamer Julia is in her second year of her Master of Arts in Human Kinetics. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Queen's University and recently finished a Master of Education (specialization in Teaching and Learning) from the University of Ottawa. Having both played and coached soccer for many years, her research interests include socio-cultural aspects of sport, and the impact on gender in children's sport programming. Outside of school, Julia enjoys reading, bouldering, watching tv, and spending time with friends and family. |
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