Browsing by Author "Goopy, Suzanne E."

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    Multiple Lives: A Narrative Autoethnography Exploring Women’s Migration Experience
    (2020-05-11) Teame, Danaiet; Rankin, Janet M.; Dela Cruz, Añiela M.; Goopy, Suzanne E.
    This autoethnographic research investigates my shifting positions of privilege and oppression that are part of my personal experience of global migration. Using a theoretical framework of intersectionality, this research develops a deeper understanding of my varied migratory journeys. I identify as an East African Canadian who resides in Qatar. There are women in my life, such as my mother and domestic workers in Qatar who share similar identities, yet their experiences are significantly different from mine. This observation has led me to examine current literature that links to migration experiences and experiences constructed by identities that result in oppression and privilege. My experiences rooted from my multiple identities such as, female, Canadian, Ethiopia, Eritrean, immigrant, and black continuously shift placing me in positions of being privileged or being oppressed, a phenomenon that I have refer as my multiple lives. In this autoethnography, I deconstruct my multiple lives to expose the systemic imbalance of power in society that link into my intersecting identities, which refers to how, where and which of my multiple identities intersect. Evocative story telling is used as a strategy to expose how my nursing work is enmeshed with my activist work and my moral conviction that health is a fundamental human right. The work entreats readers to develop a personal knowledge, built in relationship with my multiple lives and expose the day-to-day injustices being perpetrated within globalized migration.
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    Registered Nurses and The Culture of Nursing Burnout in a Canadian Surgical Burn Unit
    (2019-09-17) Tilley, Amy Nicole; Goopy, Suzanne E.; Estefan, Andrew; Venturato, Lorraine
    The Canadian health care system is facing critical nursing shortages resulting in extensive wait lists and diminishing quality of care due to, among other things, burnout and turnover of nurses. Burnout among nurses has traditionally been researched from an individualistic lens; in other words, the nurse experiencing burnout is studied. However, by researching burnout from a cultural perspective, I was able to learn about aspects of burnout that extend beyond individual nurses. In order to address nursing burnout, it is important to first obtain a thorough understanding of the role that the culture of organizations can play in allowing for burnout. Because individual problems or experiences happen within cultural contexts, they cannot be divorced from each other. In this thesis, I seek to inform this complex subject using an adapted ethnographic approach. This study took place on a surgical burn unit. Five registered nurse participants were observed and eight participants interviewed about their experiences of the unit, its culture, the demands they face, and their coping strategies. Data from ten observational shifts and eight semi-structured interviews, including interviews with key stakeholders, were analyzed. Participants all reported signs and symptoms associated with burnout which were also observed in daily practice. Interestingly, all participants expressed similar experiences of burnout indicative of a culture of nursing burnout within the unit. Varying reasons for this, both stated and observed, are explored in this thesis.
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    Resilient Bodies: Exploring Racialized Newcomer Women’s Experiences of Embodiment
    (2020-05-01) Green, Amy Rose; Kassan, Anusha; Goopy, Suzanne E.; Russell-Mayhew, Shelly K.
    In recent years, several scholars have called for the construct of embodiment – that is, the experience of engagement of one’s body in the world – as a meaningful way to explore how women experience their bodies. However, limited research has explored embodiment specifically among newcomer women (i.e., immigrants, refugees, and non-permanent residents) who are part of racialized groups (i.e., those identifying as persons of colour or as being part of visible minority groups) in Canada. As such, this dissertation represents a purposeful attempt to explore embodiment among racialized newcomer women, and how to investigate this topic in culturally-sensitive and meaningful ways. Through a feminist lens, and situated in the field of counselling psychology, this body of work integrates different research practices (including a critical review, arts-based engagement ethnography [ABEE], and critical reflection) to systematically contribute to the academic literature focusing on embodiment among racialized newcomer women. Consisting of three conceptually linked manuscripts, which use the Developmental Theory of Embodiment (DTE) as a guiding framework to conceptualize embodiment, this dissertation makes the following contributions to research and practice. First, Manuscript 1 demonstrates how the construct of embodiment offers a meaningful vantage point from which to conduct qualitative research with newcomer women, offering suggestions for working through some of the ethical, methodological, and cultural considerations that may arise in doing so. Manuscript 2 outlines the results from a feminist research study that used ABEE to explore the experience of embodiment among six racialized newcomer women in Canada. Finally, Manuscript 3 offers a critical reflection of the use of ABEE in the aforementioned study, offering suggestions for its utility as an embodied, culturally-sensitive, and reflexive approach. Taken together, findings from this body of work strengthen the embodiment field by demonstrating that there are several unique aspects of being a racialized newcomer woman that can influence embodiment; therefore, these factors should be taken into consideration from a conceptual and methodological standpoint in future research, clinical practice, and social justice initiatives.
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    The Saprotrophic Body
    (2019-08-28) Chartrand, Eve; Eiserman, Jennifer; Leblanc, Jean Rene; Goopy, Suzanne E.
    Through two years of extensive research creation, this paper investigates the nature of women’s negative body representations associated with ageing, including narratives of inclusiveness and visibility outside normative constructs. As part of an MFA, extensive literature reviews helped transform areas of interest into meaningful research questions. The literature included studies on ageism, embodiment, death rituals, material culture, thingness, medical gaze, regeneration, excess, the abject and the social dimension of participation (Bishop, 2006) in contemporary art. Research-creation included applying variations of Robert K. Yin’s case study research and applications. Existing literature and other artists’ works permeated all areas of creative case study research as Moustakas’ processes of heuristic inquiry (immersion, incubation, illumination, explication, and creative synthesis (Moustakas 1985) systematically unfolded. The six creative case studies resulted in a deeper understanding of the implications of current negative body definitions in middle-aged women’s lives to self-identity and agency. Applying a case study methodology to research creation provided a formal structure to an otherwise equivocal creative process in building a concrete path for problem-solving. Dissemination confirmed and informed the efficacy and relevance of artistic choices and established grounds for further research. This was mainly based on successful strategies retrieved from previous creative case studies that answered the initial research question. Artistic transformative encounters (Gynning 2016), conducted and presented in this paper, challenge the idea that ageing is intrinsically defined by disability, ontological decay, and death.
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    What is the Future of Libraries in Academic Research
    (2018-12-10) Hickerson, H. Thomas; Brosz, John; Goopy, Suzanne E.
    Research has changed, have libraries? Research at the University of Calgary has identified a constellation of services necessary to enable today's multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research. This session will address the nature of evolving challenges and explore steps critical to the future of research libraries. With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Libraries and Cultural Resources is seeking to instantiate a combination of services, expertise, and infrastructure through direct partnerships between library staff and scholars in a diversity of research endeavors. This research, enabled by competitive sub-grants, has ranged from providing real-time public access to arctic sensors to digitization and textual analysis of early science fiction writings to a repository for 3D scans of cultural heritage sites. This process will be examined from the perspective of the Project Coordinator, John Brosz, detailing the nature and results of direct participation by library staff in the various research projects and in the re-envisioning of library space as a constantly changing research lab. Suzanne Goopy, a social anthropologist and lead investigator in one of the funded projects, will illustrate her team's introduction of empathetic cultural mapping -- an approach that blends personal stories with population-level data. She will provide a researcher's perspective on how this experience has produced for her and her team a new understanding of the scope of library services and the opportunities for substantive collaboration. Tom Hickerson will address the critical importance of implementing a functional infrastructure and adopting a new model for the role of the library in campus research. He will describe the potential impact of this redefinition on libraries and on their continuing relevance in the research enterprise.