Lectures & Seminars

Racism and Discrimination Experienced by Racialized Newcomers When Accessing Settlement Services in Southwestern Ontario, 2024

In partnership with Local Immigration Partnerships in eight regions of Southwestern Ontario, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 94 newcomers who had accessed settlement services in these regions and with 15 service providers in the regions. The presenters will discuss the results from this study using an intersectional GBA+ approach, and evidence-based recommendations for improving service accessibility and inclusivity. The knowledge gained fills a gap by focusing on the specific experiences of racism and discrimination that newcomers may face in accessing settlement services, and by working in communities outside of the large metropolises in Canada.

Psychological Effects of Mindfulness Among Legal Professionals, 2021 - 2024

A talk I was invited to give to an upper-year law class called Mindfulness and the Legal Profession at Western University. I discussed two of the studies from my dissertation in which I evaluated mindfulness interventions administered to legal professionals in the US. I also talked about the ways in which mindfulness affects attention and how that, in turn, can affect well-being. (The slides for this talk were last updated in 2024.)

Moving Beyond the Mat: Exploring the Application of Mindfulness Training in Professional and Educational Settings, 2020

The public lecture I gave as part of my PhD defense in September. I discussed the three studies included in my dissertation—two of which involved the evaluation of mindfulness interventions administered to legal professionals and one regarding a mindfulness intervention administered to grad students.

2018-2019

The talk I presented as a 4th year PhD student for the psychology brownbag seminar course. I discussed preliminary results from two of my dissertation studies, both of which involved the evaluation of mindfulness interventions administered to legal professionals.

2017-2018

The talk I presented as a 3rd year PhD student for the psychology brownbag seminar course. I discussed results from a project evaluating the relationships between various mood-related symptoms and the learning of rule-based vs. non-rule-based categories.

2016-2017

The talk I presented as a 2nd year PhD student for the psychology brownbag seminar course. I discussed preliminary results from one of my dissertation studies which involved the evaluation of a mindfulness intervention administered to legal professionals, as well as a pilot study that assessed a mindfulness intervention administered to employees at 3M Canada Company.

2015-2016

The talk I presented as a 1st year PhD student for the psychology brownbag seminar course. I discussed plans for a study proposing to examine the differential effects of mind-wandering and focused-attention vs. open-monitoring mindfulness activities on divergent and convergent-based creativity tasks.

2014-2015

The talk I presented as a 2nd year MSc student for the psychology brownbag seminar course. I discussed preliminary results from both of my master's thesis studies—one of which assessed the relationship between ambient noise volume and creativity and the other examined how ambient noise affected rule-based vs. non-rule-based category learning. 

2013-2014

The talk I presented as a 1st year MSc student for the psychology brownbag seminar course. I discussed preliminary results from my master's thesis study assessing the relationship between ambient noise volume and creativity. I also presented a proposal for my second master's thesis study, evaluating how ambient noise affects performance on rule-based vs. non-rule-based category learning tasks.

2016

A short presentation I gave during a departmental open-house for undergrad students. I talked about my research and some of the other research being done at that time in the Minda Lab.