Heather Young-Leslie, MA (McMaster), PhD (York)
Pronouns: she/her
Contact
Senior Research Partner, SSH, VPRI Research Partners Network
- Heather.YoungLeslie@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-0842
- Address
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448-F Law Centre
8820 - 111 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
- Availability
- Research Whisperer Hours: https://www.ualberta.ca/research-services-office/proposal-development/sshrc/announcements.html
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Medical Anthropology; Research Development; Knowledge Mobilization; Research Impact
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. Currently the inaugural Senior Research Partner, Social Sciences and Humanities, using human-centred design, and professor-oriented principles to set-up and develop the new Research Partner Network at the University of Alberta.
Research
Peer reviewed publications on: facemasks in Covid-19, medicine and modernity, ecological knowledge, Indigenous women's textiles, mothering, ethnography of Oceania (Tonga, Papua New Guinea). You can find me discussing social responses to facemasks during the pandemic on Counter.Social: https://counter.social/@HyL
Teaching
Past teaching inclused anthropology of health, culture of biomedicine, gender and globalization, and Oceanic ethnography.