Team Giles Alumni - Where are they now?
Sara Nicholls Mathies
Degree: MA in Women's Studies and Human Kinetics, 2008
Thesis Title: Playing Games with Power and Privilege: Subjugated Knowledges and Sport for Development
Current Position: Deputy Director, Nutrition Programming and Immunization - Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Davina Rousell
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2009
Thesis Title: Understanding Leadership's Role in Inclusive, Culturally-Appropriate Recreation Programming in K'atlodeeche First Nation/Hay River Reserve and the Town of Hay River, Northwest Territories
Current Position: PhD student in Sociology at Carleton University
Julie Bertrand
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2009
Thesis Title: New Brunswick Approach to Comprehensive School Health: Healthy Learners in Schools and the Community School
Current Position: Teacher in Vancouver, BC
Hannah Irving
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2010
Thesis Title" Dancing with Difference: An Auto/ethnographic Analysis of Dominant Discourses in Integrated Dance
Current Position: Evaluation Coordinator
Sara Dorken Ahee
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2011
Thesis Title: The Development of the City of Ottawa's Girls n' Women and Sport Program
Current Position: On maternity leave; worked at Canadian Youth for French, Communications and Public Relations Manager and Wakeboard and Waterski Canada
Karen Lawford
Degree: MA in Women's Studies, 2011
Thesis Title: First Nations Women's Evacuation during Pregnancy from Rural and Remote Reserves
Vanessa Lodge Gagné
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2011
Thesis Title: Aboriginal Sport in the Maritimes: Mi'kmaq and Maliseet Tom Longboat Award Recipients
Current Position: Leadership Development Coordinator, Aboriginal Sport and Wellness Council of Ontario
Erin Aylward
Degree: MA in International Development and Global Studies, 2012
Thesis Title: Northern Youth Abroad: Exploring the Effects of a Cross-Cultural Exchange Program from the Perspectives of Nunavut Inuit Youths
Current Position: PhD student at University of Toronto
Ava Baker
Degree: Completed fourth year research project and family medicine residency research project with Audrey
Current Position: Family medicine and ER physician in Alberta and British Columbia
Dr. Jackie Oncescu
Degree: PhD in Human Kinetics, 2012
Thesis Title: The Impact of a School's Closure on Rural Community Residents' Lives
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick
Dr. Lyndsay Hayhurst
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow who conducted research with Audrey
Lyndsay's research focused on sport for development initiatives, especially those that concerned Aboriginal girls.
Current Position: Assistant Professor in Kinesiology and Health Science at York University
Alana Rovito
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2012
Thesis Title: A Case Study of Outside Looking In (OLI): A Youth Development through Recreation Program for Aboriginal Peoples
Current Position: working at Humber College
Mimi Galipeau
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2012
Thesis Title: A Case Study of Alberta's Future Leaders Program (AFL): Developing Aboriginal Youth Leadership through Cross-cultural Mentorship, and Sport, Recreation, and Arts Programming
Current Position: working for the federal government
Carolyn McClelland
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2012
Thesis Title: The Social Impacts of Street-involved Youths' Participation in Structured and Unstructured Leisure
Current Position: working with marginalized youth in Bancroft
Kyle Rich
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2013
Thesis Title: Bridging Troubled Waters: Examining Culture in the Canadian Red Cross' Swimming and Water Safety Program
Current Position: Term Assistant Professor, Brock University
Sophie Gartner-Manzon
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2014
Thesis Title: Alberta's Future Leaders Program: Long-Term Impacts
Current Position: Teacher in the UK
Dr. Matias Golob
Degree: PhD in Human Kinetics, 2015
Thesis Title: Leisure-oriented Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Sites for Active Citizenship
Current Position: Program Manager for HumberLaunch
Dr. Francine Darroch
Degree: PhD in Human Kinetics, 2016
Thesis Title: Gaining Insight: A Community-Based Approach to Understanding Physical Activity and Weight Gain in Pregnancy with First Nations and Métis Women
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Carleton University
Katie Glass
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2016
Thesis Title: Examining and Addressing Men's Boating Safety Practices in Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Current Position: Contract worker with the UN and WHO
Dr. Karen Lawford
Degree: PhD at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, 2017
Thesis Title: Understanding the Experiences and Processes of Health Canada's Evacuation Policy for Pregnant First Nations Women in Manitoba
Co-supervisor: Dr. Ivy Bourgeault
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Queen's University
Julia Frigault
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2018
Thesis Title: Culturally Safe Falls Prevention Programs for Inuvialuit Elders
Current Position: Lakeland District Youth Consultant, Government of Saskatchewan
Dr. Tricia McGuire-Adams
Degree: PhD in Human Kinetics, 2018
Thesis Title: Anishinaabeg Women’s Wellbeing: Decolonization through Physical Activity
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Education, University of Ottawa
Dr. Lauren Brooks-Cleator
Degree: PhD in Human Kinetics, 2019
Thesis Title: First Nations and Inuit Older Adults and Aging Well in Ottawa, Canada
Current Position: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social Work, Carleton University
Michelle Hope Rumford
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2019
Thesis Title: Recreation, Religion, and Reconciliation: Christian Camps for Indigenous Youth in Canada
Current Position: Researcher with the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
Mary Ollier
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2019
Thesis Title: On-the-land with Project Jewel: A Community-based Research Project in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Current Position: Medical Student at University of Toronto
Dr. Rob Millington
Postdoctoral Fellow who conducted research with Audrey
Rob's research focused on how international NGOs mobilized sport for development in both historical and contemporary contexts
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Brock University
Dr. Nicolien van luijk
Postdoctoral Fellow who conducted research with Audrey
Nicolien's research focused on privatized aid and sport for development in Canada and Australia, as well as the historical relationship between the International Olympic Committee and the United Nations
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Jackie Dawson in Geography
Steven Latino
Degree: MA in Human Kinetics, 2020
Thesis Title: Social Media Portrayals of Three Extractives Companies’ Funding of Sport for Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada and Australia
Dr. Shawn Forde
Postdoctoral Fellow who conducted research with Audrey
Shawn’s research focused on Audrey’s SSHRC-funded research project that is analyzing ‘sport for reconciliation’ efforts in Canada, Australia, and Aoteroa/New Zealand
Current position: Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at UBC.