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My master’s thesis explores museums’ ongoing attempts to engage with rhetorics of diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, and asks racialized immigrants about their resulting experiences and perceptions as visitors. This research analyzes the remaining impacts of art institutions’ colonial origins, which historically banned or fetishized people of colour. Through a discourse analysis of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s website and semi-structured interviews with racialized immigrants, this project examines the cultural importance of art institutions and their role in facilitating or hindering social inclusion for marginalized groups. Overall, this research will produce programming and design recommendations, helping museums work towards social inclusion.

My research project provides a critical socio-legal analysis of the persistent decriminalization of marital rape in India, framing the issue within the nation's historical legislative trajectory. The research traces the enduring colonial legacy of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and its subsequent replacement by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The core methodology involves a systematic, critical case analysis of judicial transcripts spanning both the IPC and BNS eras. This approach identifies continuous and similar judicial patterns and reasonings that sustain the marital rape exception, demonstrating a failure of the BNS to achieve complete decolonization in this critical area. The study also investigates the complex, ongoing role of the age-based exception, alongside the influence of entrenched societal attitudes and political power dynamics. In all, the research illuminates the struggling nature of legal reform in securing bodily autonomy for married women in India.

My research aims to understand how the relationships between innovative technologies, sustainability discourses, and religious/spiritual belief(s) and practices are framed, understood and negotiated within alternative death social movements. I will examine how technologies—including resomation (alkaline hydrolysis/liquid cremation chemical dissolution), promession (cryogenic freezing and vibrative pulverization), and recomposition (organic conversion of decaying remains to compost)—are being differentially engaged with by three alternative social movements, often associated with radical consumerist critiques of advanced medical technologies. My objectives are to conduct: a critical examination of relevant sociological, thanatological, philosophical, and religious studies research regarding embodiment and mortality, historical and prevailing funereal and decomposition rituals, and spiritual beliefs; a content analysis of corporate iconography and symbolic discourse concerning the ecologically (re)generative capacities and redemptive promises of such disposition technologies; and a cross-comparative discourse analysis of three online coalitional groups (The Order of Good Death, Alcor, and Green Burial Society of Canada).

My research focuses on the assembly, mobilization, and regulation of health and medical information and knowledge on social media. Specifically, I focus on the marketing and content moderation strategies of various actors including influencers, social media management agencies (SMMAs), and pharmaceutical and telehealth companies. Through this study, I aim 1) to understand what (and how) health/medical information is communicated on social media by patient influencers, pharmaceutical and telehealth companies, 2) to understand what guidelines shape content creation, marketing practices, influencer partnerships, etc. for patient influencers and pharmaceutical companies, and 3) to understand what the work of patient influencers and SMMA workers entails, in practice.

My dissertation research focuses on understanding and addressing the subtle barriers in the hiring and promotion process, specifically those which impact the evaluation and selection of lawyers in Canadian law firms. I conducted semi-structured interviews with both partners and associates with the aim to paint a nuanced account of hiring. I am particularly interested in lawyers’ experiences applying to jobs, going through interviews, and firm dynamics once on the job. Partners were asked an additional series of questions that explored how candidate decisions are made. I am interested in how both organizational and individual level practices, together, reproduce inequalities.

Using General Strain Theory and Critical Race Theory, I am exploring the strains Punjabi youth in the Greater Toronto Area and Peel Region experience, and whether these strains contribute to deviant behaviours.

The proposed study provides insight into the job-related stress level and job satisfaction of urban, suburban, and rural police officers within the Canadian context. More specifically, this project examines the difference in police officer job-related stress and job satisfaction among those working in urban, suburban, and rural environments in order to assess the impact of occupational and organizational stressors experienced by each group. Through a survey of and in-depth interviews with police officers working in urban, suburban, and rural settings, this study answers the following exploratory and descriptive research questions:

1) Do rural police officers differ in levels of job-related stress and job satisfaction compared to their urban and suburban counterparts?

2) Are the relationships between occupational and organizational stressors, and job-related stress and job satisfaction moderated by supervisor support and adequate resource allocation?

3) What organizational stressors impact job-related stress and job satisfaction among rural, urban, and suburban police officers?

4) To what extent do occupational stressors impact job-related stress and job satisfaction among rural, urban, and suburban police officers?

My projected thesis project examines the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) and technology within law enforcement agencies, specifically the police. To analyze the usage of such technology, I will conduct a content analysis of serveral U.S. and Canadian based law enforcement technology company websites. I will investigate the types of AI-driven tools being promoted, the types of data they rely on, and the implications they may have on contemporary policing practices. Through the websites' marketing, I hope to develop an understanding of what these technologies are, how data is being used, and the extent to which AI and technological systems may be reshaping or replacing traditional forms of physical law enforcement.

For my research project I intend to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous women in Canadian federal institutions. To do so, I will be looking at the policies and programs that are offered to Indigenous offenders, both within and outside of Canadian federal institutions, to determine their effectiveness on recidivism. By examining policies in a Canadian, and non-Canadian context, I will address the gaps in current literature on this topic to shed some light on the effectiveness of these programs and how they could be improved. I will also be looking at programs in other countries to see what changes could be made in our criminal justice system to reduce recidivism rates for Canadian Indigenous women.