Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
1 / "You're Filipino, you know what I mean": Navigating co-researcher roles, cross-cultural graduate supervision, and shared reflexivity.
Published (2023) with Dr. Karen Gallant at Leisure/Loisir: (Anti-)Racism Special Issue
Here, I wrote about what it was like to navigate research ethics, my positionality, and relationality with research participants and my graduate supervisor throughout my master's thesis.
Read it here.
2 / The 'home' reframed: Interrupting key assumptions of the home in leisure studies.
Published (2023) with Dr. Kimberly Lopez at Leisure Sciences.
This is a critical examination of common assumptions about the 'home' in leisure studies/sciences literature.
Read it here.
3 / Picturing recreation: Newcomers' perspectives on the experiences of recreation.
Published (2022) with Drs. Heidi Lauckner, Karen Gallant, Susan Hutchinson, Tara Pride, and Mary Akbari at Journal of International Migration and Integration.
A photovoice project that sought to understand the experiences of newcomers to Eastern Canada and their perspectives on recreation.
Read it here.
Selected Conference
Presentations
1 / 'Home' Ongoing in Landscapes of Transitions: Conceptualising the Translocational 'Home' as Journeys of Seeking and Locating the Self
Presented (2023, May 16-18) with Dr. Kimberly Lopez at the 17th Canadian Congress on Leisure Research. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
View published book of abstracts here.
2 / New Philippine Arrivant Stories Heard through Kuwentuhan: Possibilities for Resistance, Transofrmation, and Justice
Accepted presentation (2024, June 26-28) with Dr. Kimberly Lopez at the 40th Qualitative Analysis Conference "Origin Stories": Tracing the Origin of Ideas, Selves, and Communities, Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
3 /'Welcome' at what Cost? Hearing New Philippine Arrivant Stories of Mobility, Resettlement, and Labour via Kuwentuhan
Accepted poster presentation (2024, July 12-14) with Dr. Kimberly Lopez at the Leisure Studies Association Conference: (Re)Claiming Leisure: Rights, Responsibilities, and Resistance. Scotland, United Kingdom.
Selected Interviews/
Media
1 / "Pursuing Research that Hits Home" - Univeristy of Waterloo Graduate Student Impact Stories (2023)
Visit my student feature here!
2 / Recreation and Leisure Studies Graduate Student Feature (2023)
Visit my student story here!
3 / Recreation and Leisure Studies Anti-Racism Faculty Collective - Student Spotlight (2022)
Visit my interview here!
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