QSpace: Queen's Scholarship & Digital Collections
QSpace is an open access repository for scholarship and research produced at Queen's University. QSpace offers faculty, students, staff, and researchers a free and secure home to preserve and present their scholarship.
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Item The Circle Speaks(2025)This project explores the integration of multiliteracy resources as a means to foster creative knowledge and authentically embed Indigenous ways of knowing within the Grade 11 College English course Understanding Contemporary First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Voices. This project investigates how educators can design learning experiences that move beyond traditional print literacy to include multimodal storytelling, land-based learning, and community-informed knowledge practices. The research highlights how integrating Indigenous epistemologies and multimodal expression nurtures deeper critical thinking, empathy, and creativity among students, while promoting reconciliation through education. The project offeres a review of resources that encourage multiliteracy pedagogy to honour Indigenous voices, disrupt colonial narratives, and support more inclusive and relational forms of knowledge-making in secondary English classrooms.Item Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025)As Canada takes stock of its immigration programs, the factors that promote successful settlement have taken centre stage – for researchers, service providers, policymakers, and for the migrants themselves. Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience explores the conditions and supports that help international migrants thrive, not just survive. Focusing on resilience, chapters examine how immigration status and family dynamics shape migrants’ agency and their responses to the inevitable challenges of building new lives. They draw attention to the issues created by societal constructs, while highlighting the resources from social institutions of all types: governmental, professional, educational, and faith-based. Emphasizing the experiences of structurally oppressed migrant groups, contributors note the varied ways that capitalism, as well as class, gender, and race, can contribute to inequality in settlement practices. Directed at a wide audience of community and government practitioners, policy experts, academics, and civil society activists, Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience illuminates both the impediments to newcomer integration and the ability of newcomers to engage successfully in adaption and resistance.Item Hydrotherapy Manual for Upper Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation: Flow Forward Pool Program(2025-09-11)The Hydrotherapy Manual for Upper Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation serves as a tool guide to support the delivery of occupational therapy (OT) led hydrotherapy sessions for outpatient stroke rehabilitation. The program, “Flow Forward Pool Program," was developed by a team of OT students from Queen’s University under the supervision of Dr. Dorothy Kessler, Dr. Olivia Manning and Zanna Farmer. The manual was influenced and supported by Olivia Manning's (2024) dissertation which looked at water-based therapeutic exercises in stroke recovery and community use. A literature review was conducted by E.C., H.G., and K.F. and a grey literature search was completed by J.L., V.L., and C.R. The manual is intended to assist in the implementation of an upper extremity hydrotherapy program as part of the Outpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Program at Providence Care Hospital (PCH) in Kingston, Ontario. Currently, the hospital's therapy pool is used by physiotherapists, focusing on primarily lower extremity exercises, as well as use by the community through pay-per-use and private programs such as Aching Joints. This manual aims to address a current gap in OT service delivery and the limited evidence-based literature on upper extremity hydrotherapy interventions for stroke rehabilitation. It is also intended to provide guidance for graded water-based exercises focusing on shoulder, trunk, wrist, fingers and hand, balance and coordination, which is informed through stroke best practices and supporting literature.Item Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth(McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025)The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 produced not only military and humanitarian responses but also scholarly and artistic ones from Ukrainians looking to the future of their country. Terra Invicta is a series of critical and creative articulations of pasts, presents, and possible futures involving humans and the more-than-human world. Contributors suggest that Ukraine is caught in an environmental war, waged by a fossil-fuel superpower against people who are prepared to lay down their lives to protect their land. This volume explores the relationship between Ukrainians – a multiethnic and multireligious people with a complicated history – and the Ukrainian land, the zemlia to which they belong. Themes include decoloniality, ecocultural identity, the politics of reconstruction, and artistic responsibility amid a war for national survival. Chapters emphasize the value of reviving multispecies relations with the land, positively transforming multicultural relations with history, and reinvigorating grassroots engagements with the state and society. Terra Invicta grapples with the role of artistic expression in the face of war and collective loss and what it means to commit to a place, a land, a territory, in a world set in constant motion.Item Gendered differences, parenthood, and leader emergence: Investigating a motherhood penalty and a fatherhood advantage(2025-11-07)Research on the motherhood penalty and the fatherhood advantage is limited in its direct comparisons between men and women, and is complicated by conflicting findings. In my dissertation, I aim to replicate both the motherhood penalty and the fatherhood advantage and expand their nomological network by researching boundary conditions and mechanisms through which they may occur. In Study 1, I replicate the motherhood penalty using a nationally representative sample, the British Cohort Study, and thereby discover a fatherhood advantage: compared to mothers, fathers are more likely to gain leader role occupancy and are less likely to lose leadership positions following a partner’s pregnancy. Study 2 used survey methodology to (a) replicate Study 1 findings and (b) explore whether activities parents engaged in during their parental leave, as well as the support parents received from their partners and supervisors, influenced their careers upon their return to work. Findings from Study 2 reveal the presence of a motherhood penalty and a fatherhood advantage in a contemporary context and point to the roles of domestic labour and supervisor support in shaping these relationships. Finally, for Study 3 I designed an experiment where I manipulated the gender, and length of parental leave of a job applicant for a leadership position. I then measured organizational decision-makers’ perceptions of how much choice the applicant had in taking their parental leave, as well as their perceptions of the applicant’s warmth, competence, agency, and commitment. Finally, I measured leadership emergence. Findings from Study 3 reveal the importance of including length of leave in research on the effects parental leave on parents’ careers, as well as the perceptions organizational decision-makers have regarding how much choice parents have in their decision to take a leave. Taken together, these studies reveal the persistence of a motherhood penalty and fatherhood advantage with respect to parents’ leader emergence across different contexts and methods. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Suggestions for future research are offered.
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