A look back at an inspiring week with the 2025 Scholars!
From May 26 to 30, 2025, the Scholars of the 2025 cohort were welcomed by the Foundation team for orientation days at the Baluchon Éco-villégiature, in Saint-Paulin, Quebec.
This meeting gave them the opportunity to get to know each other better, understand the workings of the Foundation and, through thematic workshops, deepen their knowledge of the use of social media and media relations.
The Scholars also took up the challenge of presenting their thesis in three minutes. Discover their thesis topic below!
- Julien Beaulieu (Imperial College of London – Environmental Sciences)
- Climate litigation: greenwashing and compensation for climate damage
- Carolyn Belanger (University of Alberta – Indigenous health and self-governance)
- Exploring resurgent approaches to Indigenous health self-governance using three case studies
- Philippe Boucher (Carleton University – Legal Studies)
- Decolonizing Justice? Indigenous Healing, Exclusion, and Ambivalence in Canada’s Criminal Courts
- Leah Davis (McGill University – Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering / Ethics of Artificial Intelligence)
- (Re)Pointing the Finger: Procedural Accountability in Humanizing Algorithmic System Evaluation
- Stephanie Erickson (University of Victoria – English and Indigenous Studies)
- Reading for Reconciliation: Envisioning Futures for Canada through Everyday Reading Practices of Indigenous Futurism Literatures
- Jenise Finlay (University of Victoria – Nursing: Public & Population Health)
- Addressing Chronic Pain and Sexuality: A Narrative Inquiry into Equity in Health Care Practices
- Pablo Ernesto Gershanik (Concordia University – Individualized Study Program)
- Reconstructing personal tragedies with and for an audience: towards a performance-based tool for creating shared space in the aftermath of violence
- Gabrielle Leblanc Huard (Laval University – Social Work)
- Growing up in pain: a qualitative, exploratory and critical study of the transition to adulthood of young people living with chronic pain
- Preston Jordan Lim (University of Toronto – Law)
- Judging Bennett's New Deal: The New Deal References and the Reshaping of Canadian Federalism
- Francesco MacAllister-Caruso (Concordia University – Political Science)
- Democracy Beyond the Binary: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Political Representation of Two-Spirit, Trans, and Nonbinary People in Canada
- Vineetha Nalla (University of Toronto – Planning & Geography)
- Intersecting injustices: investigating the role of identity, infrastructure planning and governance in experiences of disasters in India’s cities
- Tyler Paetkau (University of British Columbia – Population and Public Health)
- Exploring the Connection Between Mental Health and Medical Assistance in Dying: A New Approach to Assessing Vulnerability
- Leah Schmidt (University of Cambridge – Gender Studies)
- PANIC ATTACK: Theorizing Security Anxiety on the Brink of Doomsday
- Cameron Sparling (University of Toronto – English Literature and Theory)
- Houses in Motion: Memory and Migrant Poetics in Five Late Twentieth Century Novels
- Michelle Sylvestre (University of Lethbridge – AI ethics, Indigenous studies, gender studies, critical theory, new media and art)
- Intersecting Biases: Exploring Gender and Indigenous Representation in Artificial Intelligence to Promote Equity and Inclusion for Historically Underrepresented Communities in Canada
- Elisabeth Viau (Polytechnique – Ethics of artificial intelligence and sustainable agriculture)
- Reducing the digital divide in agriculture: challenges and perspectives for inclusive technology adoption in Canada
Welcome to the new 2025 Scholars!