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Pluralistic Mating Strategies: Examining sexual orientation with CNM, jealousy, sex drive, and sociosexuality
No full textIs sexual orientation correlated with sociosexuality, sex drive, or preferences for non-monogamy? Can orientation predict one’s perceptions of jealousy toward emotional or sexual infidelity? Evolutionary theory in psychology has traditionally examined mating strategies, sociosexuality, and sex drive from a heterosexual and monogamous perspective, focusing on reproductive advantages. However, sexual orientation, mating strategies, and relationship preferences do not exist in such a strict dichotomy. Previous sociosexuality research suggests that heterosexual and homosexual individuals of the same gender respond similarly to measures of sex difference. Bisexuality may play a significant role in gender differences presented, though researchers often exclude bisexual populations from studies. In particular, bisexual women tend to exhibit more permissive sociosexual attitudes and behaviour. Research also suggests that individuals who identify as either monogamous or consensually non-monogamous differ significantly in their sociosexuality, mating strategies, and mate-retention behaviours. Sexual and relationship orientations may affect how someone perceives jealousy toward sexual or emotional infidelity. Studies show consistent sex differences in jealousy toward infidelity, though how bisexuality or consensual non-monogamy affects these relationships remains to be explored. The current study will examine how sexual orientation correlates with sociosexuality, sex drive, and preferences for consensual non-monogamy. This research will also explore how orientation predicts jealousy toward sexual and emotional infidelity. The study aims to replicate and extend previous research findings into a more diverse pool of participants and improve minority representation within research. This research will investigate the potential evolutionary advantages of pluralistic sexual orientation and mating strategies.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lynne Honey 
The Normalization of Weight-Cutting in Combat Sports: A Sociological Analysis
No full textThis qualitative study examined weight-cutting in combat sports through a sociological lens. Semi-structured interviews with six nationally ranked Canadian Judo athletes were used to learn more about athletes’ attitudes and experiences with weight-cutting. Results revealed a process by which athletes come to normalize weight-cutting and internalize it as a necessary practice intertwined with their athletic success and identity. Over their career, athletes are introduced to weight loss methods and taught definitions favourable to weight-cutting practices by coaches and other athletes. Once athletes start engaging in this practice and achieve success in that weight division, it becomes their master status which defines not only their athletic identity but their views on the sport. Results from this study are significant as they provide insight into high-performance athletes\u27 attitudes towards and experiences with weight-cutting and they suggest ways in which the sport can be modified to create a safer environment.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Diane Symbaluk 
Medical Racism in Canada: A literature Review
No full textThis presentation will focus on providing you with a deeper and broadened sociological understanding of how BIPOC individuals are harmed and disadvantaged by our healthcare system. Moreover, the presented material will be based on a wide range of literature that views healthcare and medical schools as a racialized institutions that inherently supports and perpetuates the current system of oppression. Over all, attending this presentation will equip you a stronger understanding of how race and racism are embedded in our healthcare system.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alissa Overend 
Citywide Youth ID Access: Youth Empowerment and Support Services
No full textThe purpose of this project was to collect data regarding the barriers faced by marginalized and oppressed at-risk youth in the Edmonton community in accessing government issued personal identification to improve the accessibility of support services for marginalized populations. The study involved in-depth interviews and focus groups with youth aged 15-24 connected with Youth Empowerment and Support Services (YESS). YESS is a non-profit organization that provides immediate and low-barrier 24/7 shelter, a drop-in resource center, temporary supportive housing, and support for young people aged 15–24. The unique experiences, barriers, needs, and perspectives surrounding personal ID were the main focus of this project. From this research we have identified key barriers to accessing ID such as long wait times, high costs, lack of available/easily accessible information, small number of support services available to support youth, and not having the required documentation due to the unsafe/unstable situation these youth are experiencing. Some key solutions identified were the need for consistent and clear information on how to get/replace ID, reduced costs, reduced wait times, more funding and staff support at non-profit youth support services, higher quality materials for ID, and safe boxes for ID to be kept in when it is not needed.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Emily Milne 
Imagination: An Idea that Matters: How an Emergent Curriculum Approach Needs Imagination
No full textWhy imagination is an idea that matters
Kiana is a student in the Bachelor of Early Childhood and Curriculum Studies program at MacEwan University. She aspires to combine her passions for children and travel to make a difference and become an advocate of quality and continuity of early learning and care in varying countries. As a growing educator, she has had many chances to reflect and draw on childhood experiences. Through these reflections, she recognized that imagination is a key factor behind her adventurous time as a child. However, she is left questioning, did she lose that sense of imagination as she began to grow up? Why does it become challenging to follow a child\u27s play when they imagine the impossible? Imagination is an idea that Kiana is intensely passionate about. She wants to advocate for imagination in an early learning environment, for she understands it is a child\u27s way of making sense of the changing world around them. Reflecting and wondering has sparked her journey of curiosity - leading Kiana to want to know more about how imagination plays a significant role in a child’s life.
How an Emergent Curriculum Approach Needs Imagination
In this presentation, Kiana examines and explores the idea of imagination and its essential role in an emergent curriculum. Drawing on past childhood experiences and wonderings about current practices, diving further into how children’s and educators’ imagination contributes to an emergent curriculum. Through engaging in research about various early childhood curriculum theories and practices and connecting them to the idea of imagination, Kiana acknowledges how embracing imagination opens up endless possibilities that allow children and educators to make meaning of the world. By sharing knowledge and findings, Kiana wants early childhood educators to take this presentation as an inspiration to play alongside and encourage children’s imagination. Looking at the following steps, educators need to make it a responsibility to create exciting learning that is irresistible for children and take risks with their imagination to develop possibilities that create spaces that inspire and feed children’s imagination
Nurturing
No full textNurturing is a familiar concept within early learning and care, but is it well understood? Do we understand what children do when caring for a baby doll or responding to others who are crying? In this presentation, Brooke talks about six core principles underlying the concept of nurturing and discusses a practice story of a child nurturing within play. Brooke hopes that educators will attend to the ways children nurture for growing a practice of relationships.
Loose Parts and the Worlds we Create.
No full textThis presentation explores the idea of loose parts materials and their significant impact on the child’s early learning and development. It’ll explore what loose parts materials are in an early childhood curriculum field and how they are incorporated into our settings. It will also cover the historical connections and theoretical connections about loose parts.
Next, the presentation explains the many learning development stages children can go through as they explore the materials around them. By being able to touch, sense, feel and hear, they begin to make meaning and create their own worlds.
Moving Forward, this presentation will allow you to reflect on the daily loose parts materials you have come across and your ability to incorporate them into children’s daily lives. It’ll also allow you to explore your own ideas, wonderings, imagination, and creativity.
Lastly, try presenting the idea of loose parts materials to children, then take notice of yourself as you begin to be a co-explorer, co-researcher, and co-imaginer alongside the childre
Increasing Awareness of the Property Management Minor at MacEwan University Using Social Media, Pop-Up Booths and Student Testimonials
No full textThe following research report responds to the need for market research expressed by the community partner in understanding why enrollment in the Property Management minor is low at MacEwan University, and how the numbers can be increased
How to Make a Good First Impression When Socially Anxious
No full textMaking a good first impression is integral to forming and maintaining relationships, which affect nearly every aspect of one\u27s life. Whether interviewing for a job or meeting a partner\u27s friends and family, making positive first impressions can significantly improve one\u27s quality of life. Research shows that social anxiety impedes a person\u27s ability to make a good first impression. Wherein appearing anxious (i.e., tense, fidgeting, unstable vocal pitch) can cause a person to come across as less desirable, more submissive, detached, and less expressive. Social anxiety also contributes to one\u27s negative interpretation of their impressions on others, further perpetuating this fear. However, there are specific strategies that can help people conquer social anxiety and make better first impressions. By creating self-distance (e.g., non-first-person self-talk, reflecting as if watching a stranger), focusing on others (e.g., learning about others, performing acts of kindness), and increasing self-expression, one can decrease social anxiety and make better first impressions
The Historical Relationship Between Parliamentarians and Public Servants in Canada
No full textThe bargain between public servants and politicians - where public servants provide policy advice and implementation of government priorities in exchange for anonymity and job security - is breaking. Public servants are more frequently being named publicly by politicians when issues arise, and are facing increased pressure from politicians to defend their priorities rather than simply implement them. But how often have the threats to public servants’ anonymity and non-partisanship led to outright politicization, where they become the focus of partisan political debates, and has this changed over time?
We look at historical records of debates in parliament to determine how often politicians discuss public servants and what issues these debates focused on. This was done by examining Hansard transcripts. References to public servants by elected officials in Parliament were counted to determine if there was any shift in frequency of debate of public servants in Parliament over time. Topics discussed in years with the highest frequency of references to public servants, 1918 and 1992, were counted to see how the debate around public servants had shifted. We hypothesized that discussion of public servants by politicians would increase over time, that government members would discuss public servants more, and that servants would be discussed more frequently by politicians with an ideological proclivity for smaller government. Results indicated no increase over time in discussion of public servants, no apparent variance in discussion of public servants according to ideology, and that opposition members consistently bring up public servants in parliament more frequently.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brendan Boy