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Elizabeth Shaffer
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Latest papers
Connectedness in the time of COVID-19: Reddit as a source of support for coping with suicidal thinking.
SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2022
Reddit Users' Experiences of Suicidal Thoughts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of r/Covid19_support Posts.
Frontiers in public health · 2021
Latest funding
- $38,690
Exploring Black Caribbean and Diasporic Communities' Anti-Colonial Archival Practices: Toward a Theory of Archival Wake Work
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $253,586
Carceral Care: Prison Healthcare and Medical Power in Canada, 1940-1970
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $365,528
Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
Connectedness in the time of COVID-19: Reddit as a source of support for coping with suicidal thinking.
McAuliffe C, Slemon A, Goodyear T, McGuinness L, Shaffer E, Jenkins EK
Reddit Users' Experiences of Suicidal Thoughts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of r/Covid19_support Posts.
Slemon A, McAuliffe C, Goodyear T, McGuinness L, Shaffer E, Jenkins EK
Exploring Black Caribbean and Diasporic Communities' Anti-Colonial Archival Practices: Toward a Theory of Archival Wake Work
Principal investigators: Shaffer, Elizabeth
Keywords: Archival theory; Black Studies; Decolonization; Diaspora theories; Oral history; Feminist theory; Qualitative methodologies
Carceral Care: Prison Healthcare and Medical Power in Canada, 1940-1970
Principal investigators: Fruchtman, Sara E.
Keywords: legal history; history of medicine; justice; prisons; institutional healthcare; doctors
Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education
Keywords: human rights education; genocide studies; atrocity studies; Indigenous studies; oral history; memory studies; arts-based research; visual storytelling; graphic narratives; community-engaged research; cultural trauma; testimony collection; open access
The Transformative Memory International Network
Keywords: transformative memory; political violence; war; genocide; slavery; settler colonialism; Indigenous methodologies
Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education
Keywords: human rights education; genocide studies; atrocity studies; Indigenous studies; oral history; memory studies; arts-based research; visual storytelling; graphic narratives; community-engaged research; cultural trauma; testimony collection; open access
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Trevor Goodyear and Corey McAuliffe: 7 shared papers
- Trevor Goodyear and Elizabeth Shaffer: 2 shared papers
- Corey McAuliffe and Elizabeth Shaffer: 2 shared papers
- School of Information
- MacIsaac School of Nursing
- School of Nursing
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