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Mental Illness: New Smartphone Apps Can’t Replace Traditional Therapy, U of G Study Finds
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By Caitlin Ford
The demand for mental health support during the pandemic has far exceeded the supply and some companies have migrated their psychotherapy practices to virtual platforms. In a new article, SPARK writer Caitlin Ford discusses University of Guelph professor Dr. Joshua Skorburg’s research on how effective these online resources are for treating mental illness...
Impacts of social policy changes on individuals living with poverty
Drs. Laura Pin and Leah Levac
By Mya Kidson
The Ontario government’s policy changes during the pandemic have disproportionately impacted people living with poverty, say University of Guelph researchers.
Their study found that the provincial government’s policy changes excluded the needs of community members living with poverty. Care networks comprising neighbours, friends and service providers had to step in to support people whose existing disparities were often worsened by the pandemic.
“Social policy changes, such...
Connecting generations through journaling
By Caitlin Ford
Kids and seniors – two groups that have been especially vulnerable to pandemic isolation – are getting together through a University of Guelph journaling project.
In summer 2020, Dr. Kimberley Martin, a professor in the Department of History, organized a journal exchange to connect seniors living in long-term care and children living in single-parent and low-income households.
This project, Connecting Generations, grew from her previous pandemic ...
New festival helps artists perform during COVID-19
By Otaiba Ahsan and Cate Willis
A new University of Guelph project has enabled people to build community during the pandemic and to find solace and inspiration through art and improvisation.
Dr. Ajay Heble, a professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies and the director of U of G’s International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), launched the Improvisation Festival (IF) as an online celebration of improvisational arts in August 2020.
“We thought we would mount an improvisational arts festival across the...
Examining history to better understand social health inequalities during COVID-19
Drs. Catherine Carstairs and Tara Abraham
By Otaiba Ahsan
Understanding the history of how infectious disease has exacerbated social and health inequalities can help policy makers control the spread of COVID-19 and protect vulnerable groups, say U of G historians.
Drs. Tara Abraham and Catherine Carstairs, both in the Department of History, used historical literature and media to identify groups of people with disproportionate infection rates. They found that meat-packing employees, working mothers and migrant workers were at greater risk of infection than other groups.
“COVID-19 has...
HELD: U of G’s Literary Journal for Traditionally Marginalized Communities
By Caitlin Ford
HELD Magazine, a new online artistic literary journal run by University of Guelph students, amplifies marginalized voices and creatively narrates global events. In her recent article SPARK writer, Caitlin Ford, explores the impacts of the magazine started by School of English and Theatre Studies professor Catherine Bush...
Creating an artistic representation of space use on campus
Photo credit: Nadia Amoroso
By Caitlin Ford
Showing how people may gather safely on outdoor campus spaces such as Johnston Green after COVID-19 is the goal of a new University of Guelph landscape architecture project.
Dr. Nadia Amoroso, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD), and two master of landscape architecture students, Christine Pedersen and Sihao Chen, visualized these outdoor spaces using a process called datascaping – creating information-driven digital mapping illustrations – to generate maps of outdoor locations on U of G’s campus based on...
A world within a block – the impacts of COVID-19 on St. James Town
Photo Credit: Gary J Wood
By Mya Kidson
Residents of an often-overlooked Toronto neighbourhood that was hard-hit early in the pandemic have strengthened community ties and logged high vaccination rates through COVID-19 despite their challenges, a University of Guelph researcher has found.
Often called “a world within a block,” the St. James Town community is unlike any other, in the country, and has become a research focus for Dr. Lisa Kowalchuk, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Located in downtown east of Toronto, St. James Town is a highly...
Togetherness: no longer a distant memory of pre-pandemic times
Photo Credit: Troy Hourie
By Mya Kidson
Performance and art can bring healing and promote social interaction, especially during times of pandemic isolation. This was the focus of a recent research project from U of G.
In the summer of 2020, Prof. Troy Hourie, from the School of English and Theatre Studies, collaborated with Puppeteers Andrew Gaboury and Colleen Snell as well as U of G student production interns Samantha Adams, Emily Brown and Liaba Nisar to create a Dom Roberto-style production called ODDITI(m)ES — A...
Mechanisms Involved In Chronic Pain Similar To Those In Memory Development, Say OVC Researchers
Dr. Giannina Descalzi
By Mya Kidson
Chronic pain is prevalent in humans and their companion animals, but there is very little research that shows how it manifests. Department of Biomedical Sciences professor, Dr. Giannina Descalzi, investigates how the brain adapts to pain and has found that there are similar mechanistic changes that occur with chronic pain, as seen with learning and development. In a recent...