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: Technology in Canadian Discourses of Environmental and Climatic Change: 1970–2000
Program(s) of Study: Political Science
Project Supervisor: Matthew Tegelberg
DARE Project: Youth-led initiatives for gender justice and peacebuilding
Program(s) of Study: Law and Society
Project Supervisor: Annie Bunting
DARE Project: School Referrals and Reporting to Child Welfare Services: Insights from Teachers in British Columbia and Ontario
Program(s) of Study: Bachelor of Social Work
Project Supervisor: Sarah Maiter
DARE Project: Taming the Niger River: Dams and Socioeconomic Development in Twentieth-Century West Africa
Program(s) of Study: Political Science
Project Supervisor: Damilola Adebayo
DARE Project: GEES Project (Girls on Early English Stages)
Program(s) of Study: English & Creative Writing
Project Supervisor: Deanne Williams
DARE Project: Strangers in Strange Lands: Liminal People and Peoples in the Hebrew Bible, Its World, and Its Reception
Program(s) of Study: Political Science
Project Supervisor: Carl S. Ehrlich
DARE Project: A Contrastive Hierarchy Approach to Vowel Harmony Variation in Turkic
Program(s) of Study: Linguistics
Project Supervisor: Peter Avery
DARE Project: Bridging Borders
Program(s) of Study: Criminology & Psychology
Project Supervisor: Jessica Braimoh
DARE Project: The Impact of Debt Structure on Firm Performance during Exuberance period
Program(s) of Study: Bachelor of Commerce - Finance
Project Supervisor: Saikat Sarkar
DARE Project: Introducing e-business approach to Canadian food banks in a post-pandemic era
Program(s) of Study: BCom - Business Technology Management
Project Supervisor: Zijiang Yang
DARE Project: The GEES Project: Girls on Early English Stages
Program(s) of Study: English
Project Supervisor: Deanne Williams
DARE Project: Analysing and Simulating Consensus Networks
Program(s) of Study: Economics
Project Supervisor: Sotirios Liaskos
DARE Project: Experimental Computational Intelligence
Program(s) of Study: Economics
DARE Project: Histories of Queer Sport in Toronto: Cabbagetown Group Softball League
Program(s) of Study: Human Rights and Equity Studies
Project Supervisor: Tom Hooper
DARE Project: Data Analytic Applications in Environmental Studies
Program(s) of Study: Information Technology
Project Supervisor: Peter Khaiter
DARE Project: Data rights at work: Identifying trends and improving protections for healthcare workers
Program(s) of Study: Human Resources Management
Project Supervisor: Hannah Johnston
DARE Project: The Political Strategy of Ansar Allah
Program(s) of Study: Interdisciplinary Social Science
Project Supervisor: Nalini Persram
DARE Project: Measuring the impact of the academic literacy modules on LAL students
Program(s) of Study: Accounting
Project Supervisor: Ibtissem Knouzi
DARE Project: Testing a New Theoretical Approach to Sexual Assault and Consent – Phase II
Program(s) of Study: Psychology & Criminology
Project Supervisor: Tuulia Law
DARE Project: Expanding our monoracial lens: Exploring the experiences of multi-racial people in the workplace
Program(s) of Study: Human Resource Management & Psychology
Project Supervisor: Marie-Hélène Budworth
DARE Project: The Polygraph: A Rhetorical History
Program(s) of Study: Professional Writing
Project Supervisor: Brandee Easter
DARE Project: Maternal health and climate change in rural Guatemala: A review of key literature
Program(s) of Study: Political Science
Project Supervisor: Jeannie Samuel
DARE Project: Resources and Demands Approach to Understanding Attitudes and Behaviours: A Multi-domain Perspective
Program(s) of Study: Bachelor of Commerce & Human Resource Management
Project Supervisor: James Chowhan
DARE Project: Expanding the Discourse Around Dying Through Photovoice
Program(s) of Study: Social Work
Project Supervisor: Maxxine Rattner
DARE Project: “Hiding the metal”. More-than-human (energy) transitions. Towards a Cosmic Nomos in Andean-Amazonian territories
Program(s) of Study: Law & Society
Project Supervisor: Iván Dario Vargas Roncancio
DARE Project: Making Sense of Recent Legislative Changes to Ontario's Municipal Governments
Program(s) of Study: Public Administration
Project Supervisor: Zachary Spicer
DARE Project: Pathogenic Microorganisms in Our Food Chain: Wastewater as Primary Irrigation Sources in Urban Vegetable Farming. A Ghana Case Study
Program(s) of Study: Psychology & Political Science
Project Supervisor: Jeffrey Squire
DARE Project: Negotiating a Just Energy Transition: Futureproofing the African Mining Vision for Continental Transformation
Program(s) of Study: Political Science & Public Administration
Project Supervisor: Richard Saunders
DARE Project: Secularism on the Move
Program(s) of Study: Humanities
Project Supervisor: Amélie Barras
DARE Project: Group Care Workers' Responses to Youth Violence and Delinquency in Group Homes: A Case Study from Ontario, Canada.
Program(s) of Study: Economics
Project Supervisor: Daniel Kikulwe
DARE Project: Indian Immigration and Migration in Canada: A Social Media Far-Right and Progressive Discourse Analysis on Instagram?
Program(s) of Study: Criminology
Project Supervisor: Ethel Tungohan
DARE Project: Educational Media and Computer Skills: 1980-1995
Program(s) of Study: Communication & Media Studies
Project Supervisor: Mark Hayward
DARE Project: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy: Community, Readers, and Publishing for the Future
Program(s) of Study: English & Professional Writing
Project Supervisor: Matthew Bucemi
DARE Project: Archiving Migrant-Indigenous Crossings in the GTA
Program(s) of Study: Social Work
Project Supervisor: Soma Chatterjee
DARE Project: Building Better Algorithms: Health Inequities, Bias, and the Use of AI Tools in Medicine
Program(s) of Study: Criminology
Project Supervisor: Sarah Blacker
DARE Project: Efficient Data Valuation for Machine Learning
Program(s) of Study: Information Technology
Project Supervisor: Xuan Luo
DARE Project: A Digital Resource Hub for Italian-Canadian Studies
Program(s) of Study: Cognitive Science & AMPD
Project Supervisor: Abril Liberatori
DARE Project: Canadian podcasters, longform narrative journalism, true crime, and other cases
Program(s) of Study: Sociology & Gender and Women's Studies
Project Supervisor: Anne MacLennan
DARE Project: A Visual History: Mapping the Study of Labour at York
Program(s) of Study: Work and Labour Studies
Project Supervisor: Katherine Nastovski
DARE Project: Conserving and Promoting Literary Translators’ Archives
Program(s) of Study: English
Project Supervisor: Agnes Whitfield
DARE Project: Rebuilding Stability: Identifying Patterns of Market Resilience after Global Shocks
Program(s) of Study: Financial and Business Economics
Project Supervisor: Semih Yildirim
DARE Project: Volatility Forecasting and VIX Option Pricing Using Neural Networks
Program(s) of Study: Applied Mathematics & Economics
Project Supervisor: Nabil Tahani