**Trigger Warning** My project encompasses the complex nature of forensic investigations. Utilizing the capabilities within forensic entomology to identify human remains that were retrieved from the crop of fly larvae. In addition using methods such as the STR AmpFℓSTR Kit to allow researchers to compare the DNA to a missing persons father.

Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disorder caused by GLA mutations leading to α-galactosidase A deficiency and Gb3 accumulation. This project reviews molecular mechanisms, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatments, emphasizing how early detection and targeted therapy can reduce progressive multi system organ damage.

This project explains how estrogen supports overall health and energy in cisgender and transgender women. It highlights how estrogen helps cells produce energy, protects the heart and brain, and reduces cell damage. It also explains that estrogen therapy in transgender women provides similar health benefits and adapts creating new pathways when properly monitored.

Game development offers a plethora of opportunities not only to engage users but also to educate and encourage healthy practices. Trash Dash Hero is a 2D platforming game developed using Godot, which conveys the message of practicing effective cleaning habits and the risks of pollution through programming and software logic.

Mitochondria power every cell, yet their health is shaped by daily behavior. Prolonged sitting suppresses mitochondrial function while daily walking restores it — with clear cellular mechanisms and major public health implications for all Canadians.

This research project examines how such framing may influence audience sympathy toward the offender while limiting attention to the victims. And will be addressing the following research question: How does What Jennifer Did frame Jennifer Pan’s motivations, and how might this framing shape audience sympathy and perceptions of accountability?

7P.  The Impact of Parental Educational Resources in Safeguarding Youth with Intellectual Disabilities from Online Sexual Exploitation

Domonique Shantz

Youth with intellectual disabilities are at a heightened risk for online sexual exploitation compared to their non-disabled peers. In light of the identified risks, this project considered how an educational resource for parents of this population would be the strongest approach to safeguarding them from online sexual exploitation.

8P.  What are the Main Ways in Which the Reproductive Justice Framework Challenges and Expands Traditional Understandings and Laws Around Reproductive Rights?

Don Antonio Jayawickrema

This research attempts to find ways in which the reproductive justice framework challenges and expands traditional understandings and laws around reproductive rights. By examining the equality-based and needs-based models of distributive justice, the research finds that lived access, structural inequality, interconnected reproductive rights, and state responsibility expand the rights-based framework.

This research examines genocide and its implications for social work practice, using Palestine as a case study. Through 10 qualitative questions posed to social workers and scholars, it explores how the Palestinian context challenges conventional social work assumptions about neutrality, human rights, and the profession’s role in global justice.

10P.  Risk of Organ Trafficking By Healthcare Workers: An Assessment Tool

Emma Pond

This poster presents the HERE-HTOR, a proposed risk assessment tool, designed to evaluate healthcare involvement in Human Trafficking for Organ Removal (HTOR). This offence is an under-researched, medically dependent crime that is facilitated within healthcare settings. It addresses workers’ risk, identifies red flags, and improves awareness to tackle global prevention. 

This poster examines pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency, a rare genetic disorder affecting cellular energy production. It explains the role of mitochondria, symptoms, current treatments and management. The study highlights disease severity, management challenges and impacts on patients’ health.

12P.  Digital Misogyny and Mental Health in Women

Hannah Dickie

This study seeks to understand the impacts of misogynistic online content on young women’s mental health. Through a correlational study, I examined levels of exposure versus engagement in this type of online discourse and compared them to stress, anxiety, and depression in women.

This project centers around gendered violence and its connection to the sex work industry and the feminization of poverty.

14P.  From Fancy Girls to Fetishized Bodies: Tracing the Sexual Economies of Lighter-Skinned Black Women Through Confluence

Irmtraud Bwanga

This narrative review uses confluence (Joseph, 2015) to trace how the Fancy Trade's sexual economies commodified lighter-skinned enslaved women and the racial logics that persist in their contemporary hypersexualization. Bridging history, Black feminist theory, and media studies, it argues for historically grounded social work practice. 

15P.  Provoked or Primed: Exploring the Situational and Personality Variables Behind Revenge

Alexis Mckeen

This study uses an interactionist framework to examine how Dark Triad traits (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) interact with offence characteristics including severity and publicity to shape revenge-attitudes and behaviours after interpersonal harm, highlighting the joint influence of personality and situational context in shaping retaliation. 

This study aims to understand the connection between personality traits and memory. Through a mixed methods study I examined whether personality traits impacted whether people remembered more detailed memories of an event or the general idea of the event.

17P.  Narratives of Remorse in Serial Killers: Insights into Psychopathy and Moral Emotion

Maya Thaily

This study examines how serial killers with psychopathic traits construct and rationalize narratives of remorse, or the absence of remorse, in descriptions of their crimes. Drawing on moral disengagement and cognitive dissonance theories, the research analyzes offender narratives to understand how responsibility, identity, and harm are cognitively reframed.

Hunter syndrome is an inherited genetic disease that results from a gap in the production of the enzyme iduronate-2-sulfatase. This causes glucose glycosaminoglycans to accumulate throughout the body, which contributes to gradual organ deterioration and skeletal deformities and has a wide range of developmental consequences. It is one of the rare Mucopolysaccharidoses, which affects primarily males. Because each case is unique, treatment was targeted toward managing symptoms of the disorder.

My research project is an ongoing investigation into how jurors assess the credibility of a victim of sexual assault, and how the victim or perpetrators sex might influence the assessment. Further, it investigates to what extent that rape myths are utilized when deciding if the complaint is credible.

Eyewitness identification may appear as a reliable source of evidence; however, research conducted on memory and lineup procedures, as well as the case example of Anthony Hanemaayer demonstrate that this is not the case. Given the difficulties, it is necessary that detectives using eyewitness identification corroborate this information by using other forms of evidence to identify a suspect.

This project explores how people manage stress and the side effects it brings them to their everyday lives. My research demonstrates the importance of taking breaks to decrease stress and how breaks can improve overall work performance. I created a wearable prototype that targets human senses to help users disconnect from reality and enjoy their break.

Just as important as physical needs, everyone also had basic psychological needs - competence, autonomy, and relatedness - that must be met in order to grow and thrive. The current research seeks to use this framework to understand how an individual's perseverance can affect their short-term sense of well-being. 

The objective of this research study is to analyze public support for tough-on-crime policies by addressing the following research question: In a crime, how does the presence of mental illness and/or whether the offender was on bail affect participants' support for the “tough on crime” stance?

This study was undertaken with the intention of connecting with educators to determine how to best support students with developmental disabilities within a Canadian context as they learn sex education. The results of the semi-structured interviews were thematically analyzed and led to recommendations to improve the Ontario curriculum and pedagogical practices.

This project addresses the service gap in intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth. It proposes an eight-week educational group focused on IPV awareness, healthy relationships, consent, boundaries, safety planning, advocacy, and resilience-building to equip youth with tools for safe, affirming, and healthy relationships into adulthood.