Research projects

Incumbency Advantage in the Territories

For my MA thesis I am writing on incumbency advantage in the Northwest Territories. The main goal of this project is to compare how incumbency advantage operates in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut's non-partisan electoral system known as "Consensus Government" versus the partisan electoral system used in the Yukon.

The role of batteries in pitcher success

From September to December 2022, I took Sociology 624: Social Networks. For this class I wrote a paper on the role of the pitcher-catcher relationship, also known as the "battery", in pitcher success. Through this project I developed my data analysis and visualization skills. I also gained valuable experience using the igraph R package, and web scraping. This paper allowed me to apply my analysis skills to baseball statistics, which is an area of personal interest. Presentation slides with additional data visualizations can be found here.

Relative Confidence in Government

From January to April 2023 I took Political Science 521: Canadian Politics and Government, and for the final project wrote an empirical paper on relative confidence in levels of government in Canada.

This paper examines whether there is a difference in confidence levels between the federal and provincial government in Canada. I use survey data from 1993 to 2021 to test how regionalism, partisanship, and language are correlated with relative confidence in the federal government.

This project allowed me to further my data analysis skills, including data cleaning and visualization. I will be presenting the research at the upcoming MISC graduate student conference.

Northern politics syllabus

From January to April 2022 I took Political Science 621: Interpreting Canadian Political Process. For the final project for this class I created a mock syllabus on Northern Canadian politics and public policy, focusing on the three territories. This project provided me with first-hand experience drafting a syllabus, including the selection of sources from a variety of perspectives on Northern Canadian politics. The syllabus can be found here.

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