Dana Sawchuk

I currently have three active research projects. One involves a Climate Action and Knowledge Survey of first-year students at Laurier (with Dr. Debora VanNijnatten, Department of Political Science/North American Studies). The second involves research on older adults who lost their jobs in the U.S. Great Recession (with Dr. Annette Nierobisz, Carleton College). The third involves an analysis of advocacy and mobilization efforts by and on behalf of unpaid/family caregivers of older adults (with a research team led by Dr. Laura Funk, University of Manitoba).

Alongside these research pursuits, I am very interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning, and in experimenting with innovative ways to engage students in the undergraduate classroom.

• Insight Grant (Co-Investigator), $187,853, SSHRC, 2021-25
• Donald F. Morgensen Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, Sustained Excellence Category, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2019
• Insight Development Grant (Principal Investigator), $42,130, SSHRC, 2018-22
• Faculty of Arts Teaching Scholar Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2006

Graduate students in areas related to my research interests are invited to contact me to discuss potential supervision or supervisory committee membership.

SY101 Introduction to Sociology: Foundations

SY103 Introduction to Sociology: Exploring Social Life

SY216 Aging in Social Context

SY311 Sociology of Religion

SY452h Aging and the Lifecourse