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Research
Latest papers
Social Identity and Power: Older Adults as "Care Recipients" in Media Content on Family Care.
Journal of gerontological social work · 2026 · senior author
The birthday card exercise: Replicating research as active learning.
Gerontology & geriatrics education · 2018 · first author
Aging and older adults in three Roman Catholic magazines: Successful aging and the Third and Fourth Ages reframed.
Journal of aging studies · 2015 · first author
Latest funding
- $63,880
STRENGTHENING CARE MOBILIZATION IN CANADA'S SOCIAL WELFARE STATE
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $42,130
With Their Own Eyes, In Their Own Words: Exploring Older Women's Use and Understanding of Women's Magazines
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
5 publications.
Social Identity and Power: Older Adults as "Care Recipients" in Media Content on Family Care.
Dunsmore RA, Funk L, Sawchuk D
The birthday card exercise: Replicating research as active learning.
Sawchuk D
Aging and older adults in three Roman Catholic magazines: Successful aging and the Third and Fourth Ages reframed.
Sawchuk D
The raging grannies: defying stereotypes and embracing aging through activism.
Sawchuk D
"In the storminess": multi-disciplinary approaches to scriptural images representing ethical challenges in the pastor-congregant relationship.
O'Connor TS, Walsh-Bowers R, Psychology C, Ross C, Sawchuk D, Hatzipantelis M
STRENGTHENING CARE MOBILIZATION IN CANADA'S SOCIAL WELFARE STATE
Principal investigators: Funk, Laura M.
Keywords: feminist ethnography; care advocacy; unpaid family care; social movements; transformative focus groups
With Their Own Eyes, In Their Own Words: Exploring Older Women's Use and Understanding of Women's Magazines
Principal investigators: Sawchuk, Dana
Keywords: (1) older women; (2) aging; (3) women's magazines; (4) magazine use; (5) representations of aging; (6) audience reception; (7) feminist gerontology; (8) focus groups; (9) Chatelaine
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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