This year's DARE recipients continue our tradition of delivering ground-breaking research work across all disciplines offered in LA&PS. Meet our researchers and learn more about their projects, as we recognize their accomplishments.
Meet our DARE Undergraduate Researchers
DARE Project: Off-grid solar e-waste in the Global South
Program(s) of Study: International Development Studies and African Studies
Project Supervisor: Nathanael Ojong
DARE Project: Mobilizing the Past to Build a Better Future - Peoples’ Global Action Oral History
Program(s) of Study: Human Rights and Equity Studies
Project Supervisor: Lesley Wood
DARE Project: Political Trust Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Program(s) of Study: Sociology
Project Supervisor: Cary Wu
DARE Project: Understanding the Financial Capability and Well-being of Canadians
Program(s) of Study: Bachelor of Commerce, Supply Chain Management
Project Supervisor: Sunwoo Lee
DARE Project: Contemporary Significance of Phenomenology of Violence: The War in Ukraine as a Case Study
Program(s) of Study: Political Science
Project Supervisor: Nergis Canefe
DARE Project: Contesting Jurisdiction: The ‘Core of Indianness’ and Collective Bargaining Rights in First Nations Gaming
Program(s) of Study: Law & Society and Human Rights & Equity Studies
Project Supervisor: Leah F. Vosko
DARE Project: Turning Horses into Zebras: Examining the role of law and policy in the push towards personalized healthcare
Program(s) of Study: Law and Society
Project Supervisor: Ian Stedman
DARE Project: Smart Towns and Villages? Technology Use in Rural and Remote Municipal Governance in Canada
Program(s) of Study: Criminology
Project Supervisor: Zachary Spicer
DARE Project: Interrogating Ontario’s unique use of “Ontario parliamentary convention” as a standard against which the ethical conduct of politicians can be held.
Program(s) of Study: Political Science
Project Supervisor: Ian Stedman
DARE Project: Intersections of the Toronto Bathhouse Raids
Program(s) of Study: Professional Writing and Creative Writing
Project Supervisor: Tom Hooper
DARE Project: University to Work Transition for International Students in Canada
Program(s) of Study: Political Science
Project Supervisor: Nancy Mandell
DARE Project: Job Demands and Resources Model: Understanding the Impacts on Employee Stress, Job Satisfaction and Performance
Program(s) of Study: Criminology
Project Supervisor: James Chowhan
DARE Project: The Role of Entertainment Media in the Persistence of Canadian and American Poverty
Program(s) of Study: Communication & Media Studies
Project Supervisor: Anne F. MacLennan
DARE Project: Scholarly Writing for Publication at a Bilingual Canadian College
Program(s) of Study: English and Professional Writing
Project Supervisor: James Corcoran
DARE Project: Sailing with the French: Labour, Trade, and Mobility in the 18th-century Indian Ocean
Project Supervisor: Margaret Schotte
DARE Project: Global Living Wage Movements: Policy Engagement at Multiple Levels of Governance
Program(s) of Study: Law & Society
Project Supervisor: Carlo Fanelli
DARE Project: Understanding University Governance
Program(s) of Study: Political Science
Project Supervisor: Agnes Whitfield
DARE Project: Fostering consistent collaboration with the Open Learning Center to scaffold ESL students' academic literacy skills
Program(s) of Study: Sociology
Project Supervisor: Jacqueline Ng; Ibtissem Knouzi
DARE Project: Simulated Annealing 2.0
Program(s) of Study: Big Data & Data Analytics
Project Supervisor: Stephen Chen
DARE Project: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Migrant TikTok: An Exploratory Study of the Latest Storytelling Platform for Migration
Program(s) of Study: Human Rights and Equity Studies
Project Supervisor: Yvonne Su
DARE Project: International Students and Pathways to Permanent Residency
Program(s) of Study: Sociology
Project Supervisor: Ethel Tungohan
DARE Project: Intelligence-driven Cyber Attribution System
Project Supervisor: Arash Habibi Lashkari
DARE Project: Predicting overlapping weather hazards: examining NWS forecaster detection, coordination and communication of tornado and flash flood threats during landfalling tropical cyclones
Program(s) of Study: Disaster and Emergency Management
Project Supervisor: Jennifer Spinney
DARE Project: An investigation into the roles and work that graduates undertake at the beginning of a financial planning career
Program(s) of Study: Commerce (Finance)
Project Supervisor: Daniel Richards
DARE Project: Mapping review of LAL students' empirical research
Program(s) of Study: Linguistics, Honours Minor in Cognitive Science
Project Supervisor: Ibtissem Knouzi; Liz Smeets
DARE Project: The OHS Project
Program(s) of Study: Professional Writing
Project Supervisor: Duygu Biricik Gulseren
DARE Project: A Matter of Life and Death: The Politics of Religious Diversity in Canadian Hospitals
Program(s) of Study: Urban Studies
Project Supervisor: Amelie Barras
DARE Project: Examining the Strategies and Impact of Early Women Entrants into Male Dominated Fields
Program(s) of Study: English
Project Supervisor: Kelly Thomson
DARE Project: Burning stories: Analyzing media representations of forest fires
Program(s) of Study: English and Professional Writing
Project Supervisor: Eric B Kennedy
DARE Project: Investigating the Market of Inflation-Linked Products and their Performance
Program(s) of Study: Financial & Business Economics
Project Supervisor: Nabil Tahani
DARE Project: Women political empowerment and cross-national differences in the gender gap in subjective/mental health
Program(s) of Study: Social Work
Project Supervisor: Cary Wu
DARE Project: Metrics and Evaluation in Wildfire Management
Program(s) of Study: Bachelor of Commerce - Finance
Project Supervisor: Eric B Kennedy
DARE Project: Programming, practices, production and policy: Canadian community radio
Program(s) of Study: Communication & Media Studies
Project Supervisor: Anne F. MacLennan
DARE Project: Accountability, Integrity and Sexual Misconduct Allegations Among Local Public Office Holders
Program(s) of Study: Social Work
Project Supervisor: Zachary Spicer
DARE Project: Exploring The Multilateral and Circular Nature of Venezuelan Migration in Latin America
Program(s) of Study: Human Rights and Equity Studies
Project Supervisor: Yvonne Su
DARE Project: Bringing Canadian Culture into the ESL Classroom: Connecting Students with Communities in the Context of Blended Learning
Program(s) of Study: Speech and Language Sciences
Project Supervisor: Olga Makinina
DARE Project: The Secular on the Move: When French Secularism Migrates to Canada
Program(s) of Study: Law and Society
Project Supervisor: Amelie Barras
DARE Project: FinTech Database Research, Phase 2
Program(s) of Study: Information Technology
Project Supervisor: Ingrid Splettstoesser
DARE Project: Migrant Activism in a Post-COVID world
Program(s) of Study: Human Rights and Equity Studies
Project Supervisor: Ethel Tungohan
DARE Project: Flood Protection Sandbag App
Project Supervisor: Ali Asgary
DARE Project: Sustainable Hockey Canada
Program(s) of Study: Financial and Business Economics
Project Supervisor: Ali Asgary
DARE Project: Marx’s ‘Capital’: A Global History of Translation, Dissemination and Reception
Program(s) of Study: Sociology
Project Supervisor: Marcello Musto
DARE Project: Marxism and Social Movements
Program(s) of Study: Sociology
Project Supervisor: Marcello Musto
DARE Project: Supporting Engagement with Canada's Computer History
Program(s) of Study: Professional Writing
Project Supervisor: Mark Hayward
DARE Project: Social Media Work and Cyberaggression
Program(s) of Study: BCom
Project Supervisor: Duygu Biricik Gulseren