Highlights from a Year of Public Scholarship

Join us for a public celebration of Concordia’s 2025–26 Public Scholars cohort. This hybrid event marks the close of the scholars’ year in the program and invites everyone to discover how doctoral research can connect with communities beyond academia. Through short presentations, conversation and Q&A, members of the cohort will share their research, reflections and experiences engaging broader publics.

The Public Scholars program helps PhD students develop the skills, confidence and opportunities to communicate their work through public-facing channels. This event celebrates the end of the 9th cohort while highlighting the creativity, interdisciplinarity and public impact of Concordia’s doctoral researchers.

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Emma Chen

Emma Chen, a doctoral candidate whose research explores how dance-based approaches and blood flow restriction training can support balance and fall prevention in older adults. Her work draws on exercise science, biomechanics and cognition.

Francesco MacAllister-Caruso

Francesco MacAllister-Caruso, a Trudeau and Vanier Scholar whose research examines citizenship, policy and political representation for Two-Spirit, trans and nonbinary people in Canada. Their work is grounded in community-based and participatory research.

Jayanthan Sriram

Jayanthan Sriram, a doctoral candidate and member of the Centre for Sensory Studies. His research considers how perfume and scenting practices shape identity through race, class and gender, and how olfaction can open new conversations around aesthetics and ethics.

Laura Magnusson

Laura Magnusson, a doctoral student in the research-creation stream of Interdisciplinary Humanities. Through visual, material and embodied artistic practices, she investigates how the afterlife of sexual violence can be expressed beyond conventional word-based testimony.

Nicole Yu

Nicole Yu, a doctoral candidate in urban landscape ecology. Her research explores how green infrastructure and small-scale urban greening can support biodiversity, using participatory science and collaboration with planners and designers.

Richy Srirachanikorn

Richy Srirachanikorn, a doctoral candidate whose research rethinks nostalgia not as a backward-looking feeling but as a way of reconnecting with unrealized futures. His work explores how people use technologies to revisit the past in order to imagine the present differently.

Javier Ibarra-Isassi

Javier Ibarra-Isassi, the coordinator of graduate research and thesis support at the School of Graduate Studies at Concordia. He coordinates the Public Scholars program and supports the scholars through their journey in communicating research beyond academia.

Organized by Javier Ibarra-Issasi, School of Graduate Studies