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: Enhancing Option Pricing Models using Neural Networks and Machine Learning
Program(s) of Study: Bachelor of Commerce in Information Technology
Project Supervisor: Nabil Tahani
DARE Project: Infectious Waste Management in the Age of Epidemics and a Pandemic: Mitigating Public Health Risks and Environmental Impact in Urban Africa.
Program(s) of Study: International Development Studies and African Studies
Project Supervisor: Jeffrey Squirr
DARE Project: Representations of life stories about Nigeria through the lenses of the CMS Missionaries in the XIX century
Program(s) of Study: History
Project Supervisor: Paul E. Lovejoy
DARE Project: New Forms of Statelessness in the Middle East Open Access Database
Program(s) of Study: Political Science
Project Supervisor: Nergis Canefe
DARE Project: Equipping students with critical intercultural competence and global citizenship in an EAP communication course
Program(s) of Study: Speech and Language Sciences
Project Supervisor: Jacqueline Ng, Heejin Song
DARE Project: School Referrals and Reporting to Child Welfare Services
Program(s) of Study: Social Work
Project Supervisor: Daniel Kikulwe
DARE Project: Early Children's Cookbooks as Didactic Tools: A Look at Evolving Girls' Education
Program(s) of Study: Creative Writing
Project Supervisor: Dr. Cheryl Cowdy
DARE Project: CYP Project- Conference and Web Magazine issue
Program(s) of Study: Children, Childhood and Youth studies
Project Supervisor: Abigail Shabtay
DARE Project: Understanding the impacts of work, family, and social factors on individual outcomes: using a demands and resources approach
Program(s) of Study: Criminology
Project Supervisor: James Chowhan
DARE Project: Interrogating Canadian Identities / L'identities canadiennes -- une interrogation (ICI)
Program(s) of Study: Communication & Media Studies
Project Supervisor: Anne F. MacLennan
DARE Project: Digital Place-Making on Migrant TikTok: A Review
Program(s) of Study: Development Studies
Project Supervisor: Yvonne Su , Tegan Hadisi
DARE Project: The Secular on the move: Transnational Secularism in the Francophone World
Program(s) of Study: History
Project Supervisor: Amelie Barras & Jennifer Selby
DARE Project: Black Joy
Program(s) of Study: International Development Studies
Project Supervisor: Jessica Braimoh
DARE Project: Systematic Vulnerability and Poverty Outcomes
Program(s) of Study: Economics
Project Supervisor: Sudeshna Maitra
DARE Project: Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Workers and Families in the Child Welfare System: Short- and long-term Implications
Program(s) of Study: Social Work
Project Supervisor: Sarah Maiter
DARE Project: Simulation and Analysis of Cryptocurrency Protocols
Program(s) of Study: Financial and Business Economics
Project Supervisor: Sotirios Liaskos
DARE Project: Jewish Mayors and Municipal Power
Program(s) of Study: History
Project Supervisor: David Koffman
DARE Project: Predicting Wildfire: Improving the use of Forecasting, Modelling, and Prediction in Wildfire Management
Program(s) of Study: Political Science/English
Project Supervisor: Eric B. Kennedy
DARE Project: Chief Financial Officers’ (CFOs) Agency Attributes and Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Program(s) of Study: Economics
Project Supervisor: George J. Georgopoulos
DARE Project: Afrofuturism as Future Imagineering
Program(s) of Study: Political Science, Honours
Project Supervisor: Sylvia Bawa
DARE Project: A Longitudinal Examination of the Association Between Trust and Sleep Association
Program(s) of Study: Psychology, Criminology
Project Supervisor: Cary Wu
DARE Project: First Steps for Building a New Canadian Book Publishing Press
Program(s) of Study: Professional Writing
Project Supervisor: Matthew Bucemi
DARE Project: Examining students’ application of postsecondary consent and sexual assault education – Phase II
Program(s) of Study: Honours Criminology
Project Supervisor: Tuulia Law
DARE Project: Intragender & Intergender Microviolence Experienced By Female Authors
Program(s) of Study: English and Professional Writing
Project Supervisor: Kelly Thomson
DARE Project: World War One and European Companies in Western Africa
Program(s) of Study: History and Political Science
Project Supervisor: Deborah Neill
DARE Project: Unjust Dismissal Claims among Indigenous Employees in Canada’s Federal Jurisdiction: Investigating an Underexplored Arena of Indigenous Labour Relations
Program(s) of Study: Law and Society
Project Supervisor: Leah F. Vosko
DARE Project: The History of Cognac, 1870-1935
Program(s) of Study: Political Science & History
Project Supervisor: Marcel Martel
DARE Project: Innovation and Municipal Climate Change Adaptation
Program(s) of Study: Public Administration (Honours), Major in Law, Justice, & Public Policy, Minor in Cities, Regions, and Planning
Project Supervisor: Zachary Spicer
DARE Project: Examining Care Work from The Perspective of Care Workers
Program(s) of Study: Human Rights and Equity Studies, Refugee and Migration Studies
Project Supervisor: Ethel Tungohan
DARE Project: A Meta- Analysis of the Effects of Retirement on Life Satisfaction
Program(s) of Study: BA Hons in Economics
Project Supervisor: Ida Ferrara
DARE Project: Venezuelan Migration in Latin America and the Caribbeans: A Review
Program(s) of Study: Criminology
Project Supervisor: Yvonne Su
DARE Project: Female Leadership and Related Party Transactions (RPTs)
Program(s) of Study: Bachelor of Commerce - Finance
Project Supervisor: Songlan (Stella) Peng
DARE Project: Experiential education-focused and multimodality-enhanced instructional design for English for academic purposes (EAP) teaching through collaborative action research
Program(s) of Study: Speech and Language Sciences
Project Supervisor: Heejin Song, Jacqueline Ng, and Olga Makinina
DARE Project: Dying in the Service of Empire: The Politics of Compassionate Gratuity in Colonial Nigeria’s Civil Service
Program(s) of Study: Law and Society / History
Project Supervisor: Damilola Adebayo
DARE Project: Decoding Excess Returns: Cost of Equity in Canadian Markets
Program(s) of Study: Bachelor of Commerce Honors (Major: Finance)
Project Supervisor: Saikat Sarkar
DARE Project: Italian-Canadian Archives Project
Program(s) of Study: Cognitive Science major & AMPD minor
Project Supervisor: Abril Liberatori
DARE Project: The Role of Entertainment Media in in the Persistence of Canadian and American Poverty
Program(s) of Study: Major/Minor Sociology & Gender and Women's Studies
Project Supervisor: Anne F. MacLennan
DARE Project: Strong Mayor Powers
Program(s) of Study: Bachelor of Arts - Political Science & Economics
Project Supervisor: Zachary Spicer
DARE Project: Creativity in Translation Studies and Beyond
Program(s) of Study: English
Project Supervisor: Agnes Whitfield
DARE Project: We're Ready! Community Disaster Preparedness Workshops for Community Members and Professionals (Train-the-Trainer)
Program(s) of Study: Bachelor of Disaster & Emergency Management
Project Supervisor: Evalyna Bogdan