Heather Young-Leslie, MA (McMaster), PhD (York)

Area of Study / Keywords

Medical Anthropology Research Development Knowledge Mobilization Research Impact Ethnography Qualitative Methods Feminist Research Culture of Biomedicine Tonga Papua New Guinea International Development

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About

Experienced in academic and applied research, with a history of competitive grants success, peer-reviewed publications, mentoring, change management, and of envisioning and enabling strategic research success within the portfolio of the Vice-President (Research & Innovation), University of Alberta, as well as liaising for the university at Research Impact Canada, I am currently the inaugural Senior Research Partner, Social Sciences and Humanities, using ethnographic, human-centred design, and professor-oriented principles to set-up and develop the new Research Partner Network at the University of Alberta. I am an Adjunct Professor in Anthropology, I serve on the board of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, and have served as a Merit Review Committee member and Chair for SSHRC.
Pronouns: She/Her. 
As a fifth generation settler of Irish and Scots ancestry, raised in Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territories covered by the Upper Canada Treaties, and a first-in-family university graduate and feminist, I am grateful to acknowledge I reside and work in ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), in the lands of the Pâpâsces, the Neyihaw, Nakota Sioux, Denesuline, Anishinaabe and Niitsitapi peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. I am honoured to recognize the authority of, and my ongoing responsibility to, Treaty 6.

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Research

I am a medical anthropologist with ethnographic expertise in Tonga and Papua New Guinea. With interests in gender, health and power dynamics, my research has focussed on cultural responses to public health messaging in major international campaigns, from WHO's maternal-child health initiatives in Tonga, to the global fight against HIV in Papua New Guinea, and most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. I have peer reviewed publications on: facemasks in Covid-19, medicine and modernity, ecological knowledge, Indigenous women's textiles, mothering, and ethnography of Oceania (Tonga, Papua New Guinea).

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Teaching

Past teaching includes anthropology of health, culture of biomedicine, gender and globalization, and Oceanic ethnography.

Happy to say the Research Partner Network has three Research Partners dedicated to pre-award research development: Dr. Craig Taylor specializes in major Humanities and Social Sciences research proposals; Dr. Sylvia Madueke supports Legal and Business research et recherches en français. Ayantika Mukherjee's speciality is Creative and Community-Engaged Research. Please visit this link to learn more about the Research Partner Network, including the competition supported by the Research Partners, and about the latest addition to the Vice-President Research and Innovation`s portfolio, the Research Administrative Secialists (who support all post-award needs). 

Ying Shan Doris Zhang, Kimberly A. Noels, Heather Young-Leslie, Nigel Mantou Lou

Frontiers in Psychology. 2022 March; 13 (Online) 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.853830

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Nigel Mantou Lou, Kimberly A Noels, Shachi Kurl, Ying Shan Doris Zhang, Heather Young-Leslie

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 2022 January; 10.1037/cdp0000519

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Nigel Mantou Lou, Kimberly A. Noels, Shachi Kurl, Ying Shan Doris Zhang, Heather Young-Leslie

Canadian Psychology. 2021 July; 63 (3):279-297 10.1037/cap0000305

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Ying Shan Doris Zhang, Heather Young-Leslie, Yekta Sharafaddin-Zadeh, Kimberly Noels, Nigel Mantou Lou

Journal of Community Health. 2021 February; (Online)

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Heather E. Young-Leslie & Sean E. Moore

Springer, Dordrecht.. 2012 January; Happiness Across Cultures. Science Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science (Vol 6) 10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7_13

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