Two of AYM’s Postdoctoral Fellows Receive Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation Funding

Congratulations to Drs. Emma Nolan and Nicole Dryburgh for each receiving $20,000 worth of new Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation Funding for their work focused on improving child and youth mental health and well-being in Canada!

Emma Nolan is a postdoctoral fellow on the AYM team. Emma’s work, supported by this funding, will investigate data for youth aged 12-22 from the Canadian Longitudinal Survey on Children and Youth (2019-2023). Emma plans to explore the effects of various experiences, including the impact of COVID-19, the mental health and well-being of young people nationally. This work will highlight long-term, context-specific factors that further our understanding of well-being. Additionally, it will identify vulnerable groups, and contribute the strategic development of evidence-based policies and research initiatives to support them.

Nicole Dryburgh is also a postdoctoral fellow on the AYM team. Nicole’s work aims to establish a protocol for standardized measurement in school mental health settings. Her project will facilitate focus groups of youth with lived experience and experts in the profession in order to co-create a set of constructs, measures, and processes. This work will answer questions surrounding how to improve measurement and assessment in Ontario schools, including what constructs are most meaningful, which instruments are best suited to measure these constructs, when and how often these measures should be used, and how information from the measures be shared back to youth and clinicians.

To learn more about the projects, please see the following feature from the Offord Centre for Child Studies: Offord Centre Post-doctoral Fellows receive $60,000 in new funding. Thank you the Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation for their support, made possible through donor geneority.