Ongoing Thesis/Projects

PhD Dissertation Topics

Mohammad Sadeghi Mazidi: TBD

Masters Thesis Topics

Isa Godoy: The Creation of a Discourse-Based Rubric for Assessing Aphasia

Kyleigh Paige McAlister: Bilingualism's Impact on Cognitive Decline in Indigenous Populations

Sarah Pfeiffer: Semantic Associations in Alzheimer's Disease

Masters Project Topics

Project 2 (Stephanie Huck, Isa Godoy, Ryan Kaefer, Gabby Lai): Discourse Analysis in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations

Project 3 (Destinee Elsasser, Raissa Murwanashyaka, Viktoria Vasileva): Impact of L1 and L2 on Cognitive Performance

Aging Study on Bi-Multilingualism

Principle Investigator: Dr. Tanya Dash

Project Coordinator: Kyleigh Paige McAlister

PhD Research Assistant: Mohammad Sadeghi Mazidi

Undergraduate Research Assistants: Misha Macwan and Shehlin Sandhu

Past Thesis/Projects

Masters Project Topics

Project 1 (Brittany Maciejkow): Unlocking Cognitive Reserve: A Multifaceted Exploration of Bilingualism's Impact on Behavioural Performance and Brain Structure

Collaborations

Collaborators

Ana Ines Ansaldo, Professor, University of Montreal, Canada

Ladan Ghazi Saidi, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA

Franziska Newman, clinical researcher and speech-language pathologist at Western Health, Australia

Bijoyaa Mohapatra, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, USA

Funding

Deborah Kully Scholarship in Stuttering Treatment and Research

$5,000 CAD ($2,500 CAD per student)

01/2025-05/2025

Awarded to: Kyleigh McAlister and Sarah Pfeiffer

Killam Trusts & Cornerstone Grants

$44, 514 CAD 

11/2024-10/2025

Awarded to: Tanya Dash

Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's (SSHRC)

$17,500 CAD

September 2024

Awarded to: Isa Godoy

Walter H Johns Graduate Fellowship

$7,100 CAD

September 2024 

Awarded to: Isa Godoy

Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship

$24,000 CAD ($12,000 CAD per year)

10/2023-10/2024

Awarded to: Sarah Pfeiffer

Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship

$12,000 CAD

November 2023

Awarded to: Isa Godoy