Core Members

Primary Area of Research:

• Sociology of Work and Occupations
• Sociology of Mental Health
• Quantitative Methods

Recent Publications:

• Glavin, P., & Schieman, S. (2022). Dependency and Hardship in the Gig Economy: The Mental Health Consequences of Platform Work. Socius, 8.
• Glavin, P., Bierman, A., & Schieman, S. (2021). Über-Alienated: Powerless and Alone in the Gig Economy. Work and Occupations, 48(4), 399–431.
• Bierman, A., Upenieks, L., Glavin, P., & Schieman, S. (2021). Accumulation of economic hardship and health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Social causation or selection?. Social science & medicine (1982), 275, 113774.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

•  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2018-2020.  Regional Economic Determinants of Canadians’ Transitions into Precarious and Entrepreneurial Self-Employment.  $37,329.
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2010-2019.  Work-Family Demands and Resources and their Implications for Health Among Canadians: Waves 3-5.  $1,656,424.
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 2010.  Demands and Resources in Work and Family Life and their Implications for Stress and Health among Canadians. Principal Investigator: Scott Schieman, $800,240.
• McMaster University Arts Research Board Grant, 2013.  The Meaning and Health Consequences of Job Insecurity Across the Life Course.  Principal Investigator, $6,671.

Primary Area of Research:

• Gender, Sexuality, and Family
• Social Psychology
• Sexuality and Interpersonal Relationships

Recent Publications:

• Joel, S., Maxwell, J. A., Khera, D., Peetz, J., Baucom, B. R. W., & MacDonald, G. (2023). Expect and you shall perceive: People who expect better in turn perceive better behaviors from their romantic partners. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(6), 1230–1255.
• Peragine, D. E., Skorska, M. N., Maxwell, J. A., Impett, E. A., & VanderLaan, D. P. (2022). A Learning Experience? Enjoyment at Sexual Debut and the Gender Gap in Sexual Desire among Emerging Adults. Journal of sex research, 59(9), 1092–1109.
• Baxter, A., Maxwell, J. A., Bales, K. L., Finkel, E. J., Impett, E. A., & Eastwick, P. W. (2022). Initial impressions of compatibility and mate value predict later dating and romantic interest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(45), e220692511

Current Research Projects:

•  Her current research focuses on the generalisability of existing findings in the literature, such as examining whether findings hold true across different sexual orientations and socioeconomic statuses.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

•  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2013-2016.  Attachment and detecting positive cues from a romantic partner.  $105,000.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2014-2015.  Expectations for sexual frequency in marriage.  $6,000.
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2011-2012.  The relationship between perceived partner regard and appearance as influenced by attachment anxiety and partner.  $17,500.

Primary Area of Research:

• Risk and Resilience of Families in Adversity
• Refugee and Immigrant Children’s Mental Health
• Development and Evaluation of Family-Based Interventions

Recent Publications:

• Sim, A., Ahmad, A., Hammad, L. et al. Reimagining mental health care for newcomer children and families: a qualitative framework analysis of service provider perspectives. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 699 (2023).
• Sim, A., Puffer, E., Ahmad, A. et al. Resettlement, mental health, and coping: a mixed methods survey with recently resettled refugee parents in Canada. BMC Public Health 23, 386 (2023).
• Sim, A., Georgiades, K. Neighbourhood and family correlates of immigrant children’s mental health: a population-based cross-sectional study in Canada. BMC Psychiatry 22, 447 (2022).

Current Research Projects:

• Thriving Together: Art Exhibition
  • A research program led by McMaster University’s Offord Centre for Child Studies that explores the mental health of newcomer children and families in Hamilton is engaging participants beyond data collection through an unexpected method: art.  Through a series of art workshops, study participants reflected on their new lives in Hamilton and their hopes and dreams for the future.

Past Grant/Research Projects:

• Global Parenting Initiative (GPI)
  • As Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and core faculty of the Global Health Program, Amanda Sim’s research focuses on improving the mental health and well-being of forcibly displaced children and families. Sim recently received a $1.2 million grant from The LEGO Foundation to develop innovative strategies to prevent child maltreatment and promote positive parenting among families displaced by armed conflict at the Thai-Myanmar border.