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

Contact

Senior Research Partner, SSH, VPRI Research Partners Network

Email: Heather.YoungLeslie@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-0842
Address: 448-F Law Centre
8820 - 111 St NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2H5

Availability: Research Whisperer Hours: https://www.ualberta.ca/research/services/events-training/rpnet-event-calendar.html Or: https://www.ualberta.ca/research/services/contact/research-partner-network.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 includes anthropology of health, culture of biomedicine, gender and globalization, and Oceanic ethnography.

Announcements

So excited to say new members of the Research Partner Network have been hired (May and June 2023). Joining Dr. Craig Taylor in support of humanities and social sciences research development are Dr. Sylvia Madueke and Ayantika Mukherjee. Please visit this link to learn more about the new additions to the Vice-President Research and Innovation`s portfolio.

Featured Publications

“Responsible” or “Strange?” Differences in Face Mask Attitudes and Use Between Chinese and Non-East Asian Canadians During COVID-19’s First Wave

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

COVID discrimination experience: Chinese Canadians’ social identities moderate the effect of personal and group discrimination on well-being.

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

Chinese Canadians’ Experiences of the Dual Pandemics of COVID-19 and Racism: Implications for Identity, Negative Emotion, and Anti-Racism Incident Reporting

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

Public Health Messages About Face Masks Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions of and Impacts on Canadians

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

Journal of Community Health. 2021 February; (Online)

Constructions of Happiness and Satisfaction in the Kingdom of Tonga

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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