A warm welcome to our awesome new lab members who have recently joined us as work learn students or volunteers.
Welcome Tianqi, Lior, Ellen, Stephanie, and Natasha! Learn more about our new members here. We are so excited to have you join our team!
Congratulations to our honours student Lara Radovic on her recent A+ honours thesis!
Lara has secured two fantastic research positions for the summer. The first is a summer studentship at the BC Children’s Hospital Provincial Eating Disorders program. The second is as a research assistant in the Perinatal Anxiety Research Lab! Go Lara!
Huge congratulations to Dr. Samantha Dawson who received a NSERC Discovery Grant with an Early Career Supplement and Discovery Launch Supplement!
This funding will be used for cutting edge sexuality science examining attentional mechanisms underlying gendered sexual response over the next 5 years.
Lab manager, Leor Elizur, spoke on a podcast!
SWell Lab Manager, Leor Elizur, was recently featured on a UBC Equity and Diversity Podcast, Love in Public, to talk about her UBC journal club Intersectional Perspectives in Psychology which focuses on intersectional research in the field of psychology and the importance of incorporating social justice into research. To learn more about the journal club, […]
Congratulations to Dr. Dawson!
Dr. Dawson was recently awarded a SSHRC Explore Grant to conduct a study examining factors associated with couples’ daily well-being in pregnancy. She was also awarded an Arts Undergraduate Research Award to support the social media knowledge translation initiative—MisconSEXions.
Dr. Dawson recently gave a talk as part of the Women’s Health Seminar Series hosted by the Women’s Health Research Cluster.
Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qyhL0JdJE
Congrats to Greta Jang who recently received a Quinn Undergraduate Research Assistantship Award!!!
This competitive award will support Greta as she works on a number of different projects in the lab. We are thrilled that we get to continue to have Greta as a valued member of the SWell team this summer.
Congratulations to Leor Elizur!
The SWell Lab Manager, Leor Elizur, will be starting an MA in Counselling Psychology at UBC in the fall of 2021. Congrats, Leor!
SWell Lab Director—Dr. Dawson—recently chatted with Gloria Macarenko about sex and relationships during COVID on CBC Vancouver Radio.
Check it out here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-46-on-the-coast/clip/15824347-lovelines-sex-covid-19
Congratulations to Priyam Joshi!
We are excited to announce that SWell Lab Research Assistant—Priyam Joshi—has accepted a position in the dual degree (Master of Public Health in Health Promotion and Behaviour and a PhD in Community Psychology) program at Georgia State University to start in the fall of 2021. We will be sad to see her go, but are […]