| The
people who make up the ELSIR lab
and work with Dr. Victoria Esses include graduate
students, lab coordinators,
honours students, and research
assistants. |
 |
Lab
Director
.jpg) |
 |
 |
Victoria
M. Esses, Ph.D.
Victoria
Esses (PhD, University of Toronto) is Professor of Psychology and
Director of the Centre
for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations at the University
of Western Ontario. She is also Co-Director of the Welcoming Communities
Initiative, a province-wide consortium to study the inclusion of
immigrants and minorities in small and medium-sized cities in Ontario.
She has conducted research on determinants of public attitudes toward
immigration and cultural diversity for close to 20 years. Her work
has covered such topics as the role of perceived economic and cultural
threat and competition in determining attitudes toward immigrants
and immigration, the dehumanization of refugees, the framing of
national identity and public attitudes toward immigration and cultural
diversity, and the role of ethnic and religious prejudice in immigrant
skills discounting. Dr Esses is co-editor of Social
Issues and Policy Review, a new publication of the Society
for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. She is also on the
editorial boards of Du
Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, Group
Processes and Intergroup Relations, International Settlement
Canada (INSCAN), Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, and Social
and Personality Psychology Compass.
E-Mail:
vesses@uwo.ca |
|
Graduate
Students
.jpg) |
| |
 |
Caroline
Bennett-AbuAyyash,
M.Sc., Ph.D. Candidate
Caroline
completed her B.A. (Honours) in Public Administration & Political
Science at the American University of Beirut in 2000. After a number
of years in human resources she started at the University of Western
Ontario as a graduate student in 2004, and obtained her MSc in the
summer of 2006. For her thesis, she explored the interplay between
immigrant status and religious affiliation in the evaluation of
foreign skills and education. As a PhD student she is exploring
several areas of social psychology including group membership, skills
discounting of foreign skills, and the role of values in the prediction
of reactions toward immigrants & immigration. She is also part
of the Collaborative Graduate Program in Migration & Ethnic
Relations.
Website:
http://publish.uwo.ca/~cabuayya/
E-Mail: cabuayya@uwo.ca |
 |
 |
Leah
Hamilton, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate
Leah
completed her M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the
University of Guelph. Her master’s research focused on prejudice
and discrimination against gay men in an organizational context.
In 2006 she began her doctorate at the University of Western Ontario
where she continues to research social justice issues in the workplace.
For her dissertation she is investigating the experience of underemployment
among skilled immigrants in Canada.
Website:
http://sites.google.com/site/leahkhamilton/home
E-Mail: lhamil2@uwo.ca |
 |
 |
Paula
Brochu,
M.Sc., Ph.D. Candidate
Paula
Brochu received her B.A. Honours in Psychology from the University
of Saskatchewan in 2005 and her M.Sc. in Social Psychology from
the University of Western Ontario in 2007. She is now in the third
year of her Ph.D. Paula’s research interests lie in the realm
of intergroup relations, prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination,
social cognition, stigma, and weight bias. She is particularly interested
in the processes underlying the expression of prejudice and the
consequences of prejudice on its targets.
Website:
http://publish.uwo.ca/~pbrochu2/
E-Mail: pbrochu2@uwo.ca |
 |
 |
Karen
Dickson,
MASP, Ph.D. Candidate
Karen
Dickson received her B.Sc. (Honours) in Psychology in 2005 and her
Masters of Applied Social Psychology in 2007 from Memorial University
of Newfoundland. She then worked conducting research in the area
of continuing medical education. She began her PhD in Social Psychology
at the University of Western Ontario in 2008. Karen’s research
interests are in the area of intergroup relations and prejudice.
Specifically, for her thesis she is examining how intergroup contact
on the internet can be used to reduce homophobia.
E-Mail:
kdickso6@uwo.ca |
 |
 |
Stelian
Medianu,
B.A., M.Sc. Candidate
Stelian
is a second year M.Sc. student in the Social Psychology program
at the University of Western Ontario. He completed his B.A. in Psychology
at the University of British Columbia in 2008. Stelian’s research
interests are currently in the area of inter-group relations, prejudice,
discrimination and dehumanization with a particular emphasis on
immigrants and refugees.
E-Mail:
smedianu@uwo.ca |
 |
Welcoming
Communities Initiative Project Manager
.jpg) |
 |
 |
Tasha
Williamson
Website:
To be announced
E-Mail:
twilli7@uwo.ca |
 |
Lab
Coordinator
.jpg) |
 |
 |
Carolyn
Camman
E-Mail:
ccamman@uwo.ca |
 |
Honours
Students (2009-2010)
.jpg) |
 |
| |
Shelby
Corriveau
Topic
of Research: The effect of perceived group competition on hiring
discrimination against immigrants
E-Mail:
scorriv@uwo.ca |
 |
| |
Xiyu
Shi
Topic
of Research: Aversive racism in employment termination decisions
E-Mail:
xshi29@uwo.ca |
 |
Research
Assistants (2009-2010)
.jpg) |
 |
| |
Muna
Al-Katib
Jade
Allen
Lisa
Bitacola
Tanaz
Javan
Rena
Kauldhar
Carly
O'Shea
Katie
Poon
Lindsay
Starostra
|
 |
|
| |