PhD.

Birth Place/Raised: Iran

Cultural Ethnicity: Iranian (Persian)

Education: PhD student, Family Relations and Human Development (FRHD), University of Guelph

Previous Education: Masters in Counselling (Specialist in Family Counselling), Iran

Research Interests: I work at the Lab for Cross-Cultural Studies at the University of Guelph. Generally speaking, I am interested in positive psychology and its components including social support. I like to focus on immigrants’ social network and support, and ways through which social support can be related to mental health, wellbeing, and happiness. I also have a yearning for studying gender issues, similarities, and differences between men and women in their social relationships. The overarching goal of my research would be empowerment of immigrant women to have more pleasant relationships with members of their networks, specifically with their husbands/partners, that eventually enhance their quality of life.

Topics of Interest:

• Positive Psychology
• Gender
• Social Relationships
• Social Support
• Wellbeing
• Happiness
• Culture
• Immigration

Academic Background: Andrea LaMarre is a PhD candidate in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph. She received her MSc. in the same department in 2014 and a BA honours in sociology from the University of Guelph in 2012.

Research Interests

• Eating disorders
• Support systems
• Feminist theory
• Qualitative methods
• Mental health
• Arts-based methods
• Social justice

Community Activities and Volunteer Positions

• Co-chair, Waterloo-Wellington Eating Disorders Coalition
• Social media committee, Academy for Eating Disorders
• Chair of social media committee, Association for Size Diversity and Health
• Founding member, University of Guelph Graduate Student Knowledge Translation and Mobilization Learning Circle

Research Collaborations​

• Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences – Adolescent eating disorders program; qualitative program evaluation
• Reproducing Stigma: Obesity and Women’s Experiences of Reproductive Care – CIHR grant, project manager of Ontario site
• Project ReVision – Research assistant & digital storytelling facilitator

Recent Publications 

LaMarre, A., Rice, C. & Jankowski, G. (2017). Eating disorder prevention as biopedagogy. Fat Studies, Online early view.

Sutherland, O., LaMarre, A., Rice, C., Hardt, L. & LeCouteur, A. (2017). New sexism in couple therapy: A discursive analysis. Family Process. Online early view. DOI: 10.1111/famp.12292

Sutherland, O., LaMarre, A. & Rice, C. (2017). The primacy of discourse in the study of gender in family therapy. Family Process. Online early view. DOI: 10.1111/famp.12294

Pileggi, V., Holliday, J., de Santis, C., LaMarre, A., Jeffrey, N., Tetro, M. & Rice, C. (2017). Becoming scholars in an interdisciplinary, feminist learning context. The Feminist Teacher, 26(1).

Rinaldi, J., Rice, C., LaMarre, A., Pendleton Jiménez, K., Harrison, E., Friedman, M., McPhail, D. & Tidgwell, T. (2016). Through Thick and Thin: Storying queer women’s experiences of idealized body images and expected body management practices. Psychology of Sexualities Review, 7(2), 63-77.

Sutherland, O., Couture, C., Gaete Silva, J., Strong, T., LaMarre, A., & Hardt, L. (2016). Social justice oriented diagnostic discussions: A discursive perspective. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 28(2-3), 76-99.

Sutherland, O., LaMarre, A., Rice, C., Jeffrey, N. & Hardt, L. (2016). Gendered Patterns of Interaction: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Couple Therapy. Contemporary Family Therapy, 38(4), 385-899.

LaMarre, A. & Rice, C. (2016). Embodying critical and corporeal methodology: Digital storytelling with young women in eating disorder recovery. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 17(2), Art. 7

LaMarre, A., Bishop-Williams, K., Racey, M., Day, L. & Meeks, T. (2016). Designing a culture of co-learning: Mobilizing knowledge about KMb amongst graduate students. Scholarly Research and Communication, 7(1).

LaMarre, A., Robson, J. & Dawczyk, A. (2015). Mothers' use of blogs while engaged in family based treatment for a child's eating disorder. Families, Systems & Health.

LaMarre, A. & Rice, C. (2015). Normal eating is counter-cultural: Embodied experiences of eating disorder recovery. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 26, 136–149. DOI: 10.1002/casp.2240

LaMarre, A. & Sutherland, O. (2014). Expert opinion? A micro-analysis of eating disorder talk on Dr. Phil. The Qualitative Report, 19(86), 1-20. http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR19/lamarre86.pdf

LaMarre, A., Bergen, A. & Devereaux, R. (2012). Youth harm reduction programs in Ontario: Report and expansion report. CES4Health.info, 2013.

LaMarre, A. & Hunter, L. (2012). The use of community engaged learning in the teaching of the sociology of deviance. Teaching and Learning Innovations Journal, 15, 1-23.
 

Grants or Funding​

• Ontario Women’s Health Scholar’s Award – Doctoral (2017-2018)
• Vanier Canada Doctoral Scholarship (2014-2017)
• Collaborator, Bodies in Translation (SSHRC Partnership Grant) (2017-2024)
• Co-applicant, Through Thick and Thin (Women’s Xchange 75K Grant)(2014-2015)
• Ontario Women’s Health Scholar’s Award – Masters (2013-2014)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2012-2013)

Research Area :Anna’s research area involves problem gambling interventions and treatment, harm reduction, recovery, and how interpersonal relationships influence and are influenced by problem gambling.

Academic Background: Anna is a Ph.D. Candidate in Family Relations and Human Development in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition. She received a M.Sc. in Family Relations and Human Development from the University of Guelph in 2012. Anna also has a B.A.Sc. in Child, Youth, and Family from the University of Guelph (2009).

Research Interests

• Problem gambling
• Harm reduction
• Interventions and treatment
• Conceptualizations of recovery
• Qualitative research
• Mixed methods research

Research Collaborations

Since 2016, Anna has been an Occupational Trainee at the Gambling Treatment and Research Clinic at the University of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia) under the supervision of Dr. Alex Blaszczynski. This position is an international internship position for early career researchers interested in learning about gambling and gaining research experience.

At the beginning of 2017 Anna was awarded the MITACS Globalink Partnership Award to support collaborative research between Canadian graduate students and international industry partners. This research project is in collaboration with the University of Guelph (supervisor: Dr. Maitland), the Responsible Gambling Treatment and Research Clinic at the University of Sydney (supervisor: Dr. Blaszczynski), and ClubsNSW (Australian industry partner). This goal of this project is to develop an evidence-based third-party exclusion model for problem gamblers aimed at reducing problem gambling.  

Presentations

Dawczyk, A., Pickering, D., Blaszczynski, A., & Maitland, S.B. (2016). How disclosure and non-disclosure of problem gambling in interpersonal relationships impacts self-exclusion outcomes. Paper presented at the National Association for Gambling Studies (November 23^rd – 25^th, 2016) in Cairns, Australia.

Dawczyk, A. (2015). A Critical Examination of the Theoretical Conceptualizations of Problem Gambling, Treatment, and Recovery. Paper presentation at the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Conference (November 16^th-18^th, 2015) in Montreal, Quebec.

Sutherland, O., Dawczyk, A., Leon, K., Kripps, J., & Lewis, S. (2015). Self-compassion in online accounts of nonsuicidal self-injury: An interpretive phenomenological analysis. Poster presented at the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury, (June 27^th – 28^th, 2015) in Heidelberg, Germany.

Dawczyk, A. (2015). A Critical Examination of the Theoretical Conceptualizations of Problem Gambling, Treatment, and Recovery. Poster presented at the Alberta Gambling Research Institute Conference (March 26^th-27^th, 2015) in Banff, Alberta.

Dawczyk, A., Blaszczynski, A., Maitland, S.B., & Ladouceur, R. (2014). A qualitative investigation of problem gamblers’ experience with self-exclusion. Poster presented at the Alberta Gambling Research Institute Conference (April 4^th-6^th, 2014) in Banff, Alberta.

LaMarre, A., Robson, J., & Dawczyk, A. (2014). Social support on and offline: A thematic analysis of parents’ blogs written during engagement with family-based treatment for a child’s eating disorder. Paper presentation presented at the International Conference on Eating Disorders (March 27^th-29^th, 2014) in New York, New York.

Dawczyk, A. & Kuczynski, L. (2012). Parents’ experiences of contradictions while parenting during middle-childhood. Paper presented at the Jean Piaget Society for the Study of Knowledge and Development (June 1, 2012) in Toronto, Ontario.

Grants or Funding

MITACS Globalink Partnership Award ($15,000)-2017

Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000)-2016

Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000)-2015

OPGRC KTE Student Fellowship ($8,000)-201

Academic Background:

PhD (Applied Human Nutrition)_ University of Guelph, (2020)

MSc (Public Health Nutrition)_University of Eastern Finland, Finland (2015)

Research Interests:

• Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids
• Stroke
• Metabolic syndrome
• Eating behavioural change

Recent Publications:

(R) Daneshmand R, Kurl S, Tuomainen TP, Virtanen JK Associations of serum n-3 and n-6 PUFA and hair mercury with the risk of incident stroke in men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD). Br J Nutr. 2016;115:1851-1859.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26991769

(R) Daneshmand R, Kurl S, Tuomainen TP, Virtanen JK Associations of serum n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids with plasma natriuretic peptides. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2016;70:963-969.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27071511

(R) Daneshmand R, Kurl S, Tuomainen TP, Virtanen JK Associations of estimated Delta-5-desaturase and Delta-6-desaturase activities with stroke risk factors and risk of stroke: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study. Br J Nutr. 2017;117:582-590.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28382895