CAnD3 Fellowship

cand3 learning goals

I entered the CAnD3 fellowship with 3 key learning objectives:

Strengthen my skills in communicating my research to reach broader audiences.
To learn how I can apply my research and analytical skills to address concrete real-world policy issues.
Improve my team work, leadership, and communication skills; especially the ability to help leverage group members' diverse skillsets.

idea data analysis

In March 2023, fellows were assigned to a group to analyze a policy issue related to inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) using a dataset. For this assignment, my group decided to examine the relationship between age, sex, and sexual minority status on hypertension and serious psychological distress. This project allowed me to work towards my third CAnD3 goal of improving team work, leadership, and communication skills. The above photo demonstrates the findings from this project, through a coefficient plot.

The slides from the presentation can be found here.

For this project I was partnered with Nick Zambrotta, Lucy Kervin, and Amber Duynisveld.

Indigenous Services Canada internship

One highlight of the fellowship is the experiential learning opportunity, which provides hands-on experience. Through CAnD3 started a part-time paid internship with Indigenous Services Canada, where I have further developed my analytical skills – including using R for data cleaning and visualization – in a practical context. I began this internship in October 2022, and it is schedule to continue until August 2023.

This internship has provided a further opportunity to combined my research interest of Northern Canada public policy with real world work experience in a related field.

MY cand3 Experience

Through my time in the CAnD3 training program, I have had the opportunity to gain various valuable skills, including coding in python and R, gain exposure to different fields of research outside of political science, and in the process learn new research methods and designs.

Through the CAnD3 fellowship I was able to attend the 2023 REVES annual meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which provided further exposure to different research areas and data analysis methods.

Lastly, though CAnD3 I have been able to network with the other fellows – who all come from diverse academic backgrounds.

My spotlight on the CAnD3 website can be found here.

Research Reproducibility and replicability

One of the first CAnD3 projects was a reproducibiliity and replicability assignment, where we had to provide instructions for another fellow and attempt to reproduce their code. For this assignment, I was paired with Maria Lima. We used the public use microdata file from the 2016 Census to examine active transportation, gender, and income. This assignment aligned with my CAnD3 learning goal of teamwork, as well as gave me an opportunity to use a new dataset, to improve my data cleaning and visualization skills.

The final replication report can be found here.

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