To end 2023, we wanted to celebrate and savour all that we at the SWell Lab have achieved!
This work would not be possible without the team of 22 incredibly dedicated lab members. We are so fortunate to the generous research funding we have received that allow us to do the research that we are so passionate about. We also want to acknowledge the invaluable contributions of our patient partners and advisors for […]
Tegan Breker
Title: Research Assistant Pronouns: She/They About: Tegan Breker is a 5th year undergraduate student in the Psychology program at the University of British Columbia. Broadly, their passions lie in the intersection of people, place, and academia. More specifically, their research interests include sexual development, sexual scripts, and sexual fantasies, particularly for those within 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. […]
Ela Turkkan
Title: WLIURA Student Pronouns: She/Her/Hers About: Ela is a third-year psychology student at the University of British Columbia. She is particularly interested in researching sexual and relational satisfaction in couples, sexual dysfunction, sexual communication, and how mental health influences desire and arousal. After completing her undergraduate degree, Ela aims to pursue graduate studies in clinical […]
Antonio Martins
Title: Research Assistant Pronouns: He/Him/His About: Antonio is a third-year undergraduate student studying psychology with a minor in commerce at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include sexual wellbeing and dysfunction, psychopathology, neuroscience, LGBTQ+ individuals, and media related influences on sexual health/knowledge. He intends to pursue his future in graduate studies where he […]
🎉Congrats to our two amazing SWell Lab Masters of Clinical Psychology graduates, Marta and Erin, who graduated this week!
We are so so so incredibly proud of you both and cannot wait to see where your PhDs take you!🌟💙
💫 Meet the SWell Lab Team of 2023-2024! 🚀
💫 We are so thrilled to have such an innovative team of undergraduate and graduate students working in the SWell lab for 2023-2024 who all bring diverse perspectives and experiences to the work that we do! Stay tuned for some incredible updates, awards, knowledge translation, and most importantly sexuality science coming your way this year […]
Orli Hellerstein
Title: Directed Studies Student Pronouns: She/They About: Orli Hellerstein is a 3rd year undergraduate in the honors psychology program at UBC. As a directed studies student in the SWELL lab, she works on the ADHD and sex study, and is particularly interested in the impact of ADHD medication on sexual behavior. Outside of the SWELL […]
We are thrilled to share that a SWell lab member won Best Student Poster at this year’s #iasr2023 in Montreal, Quebec!
🏆 MA student Simone Goldberg won Best Student Poster for her poster, “Cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental associations between genital self-image and own and perceived partner sexual satisfaction,” presenting on data exploring links between genital self-image and individuals’ sexual satisfaction and their perceptions of their partners’ sexual satisfaction. 🌟 Congratulations Simone, we are so proud!
💫 This week, we attended the 49th annual conference of the International Academy of Sex Research in Montréal!
We have six incredible lab members who presented this year, on topics including: 🍆 Genital self-image💭 Memory of one’s first time🤔 Mind-wandering and sex💑 Perinatal sexuality💦 Pleasure👩🏫 Sex education📱 Technology-facilitated sexual violence Swipe through to see all the amazing presentations from our lab members 💫
📢 We published in @theconversationdotcom!
💬 Check out our article “What to expect when you’re expecting: How will your sex life change during pregnancy and postpartum?”. https://theconversation.com/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-how-will-your-sex-life-change-during-pregnancy-and-postpartum-208553 👩🏽⚕️ In this article, written for a lay audience, we discuss changes to couples’ sexual well-being across the transition to parenthood, summarize some recent research on this topic from our team, @cashlab, and others, […]