Research

Research Interests

Mental health education, systems, and practices

Grief + bereavement

Processes of marginalization and empowerment

Socio-political context

Community building

Social policy

Critical qualitative research

Highlighted Publications

Joy, K. (2024). Embodied knowledge: A reflexive account of negotiating and integrating insider-researcher-practitioner identities during a bereavement study. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. University of Toronto.

Joy, K. (2023). Honouring grief experiences in life, death, and the workplace: A critical analysis of bereavement accommodation for workers in precarious employment in Canada. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

McAuliffe, C., Abdillahi, I., Joy, K., Escrig-Pinol, A., Odhiambo, A., & Monchalin, R. (2023). Chronicles of public health doctoral students: Overcoming the ivory tower through a revolution of “self-care” for a better future. In R. Monchalin (Eds.), Critical perspectives in public health feminisms (pp. 179-193). Canadian Scholars. 

Breen, L., Kawashima, D., Joy, K., Cadell, S., Roth, D., Chow, A., & Macdonald, M. E. (2020). Grief literacy: A call to action for compassionate communities. Death Studies, 1-9.

Vanstone, M., Yacoub, K., Giacomini, M., Hulan, D., & McDonald, S. (2015). Women’s experiences of publicly-funded Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing in Ontario, Canada: Considerations for health technology policy-making. Qualitative Health Research, 25(8): 1069-84.

Vanstone, M., Yacoub, K., Winsor, S., Giacomini, M., & Nisker, J. (2015). What is “NIPT”? Divergent characterizations of non-invasive prenatal testing strategies. American Journal of Bioethics: Empirical Bioethics, 6(1): 54-67.

Hirji, M. M., Wilson, M. G., Yacoub, K., & Buiya, A. (2014). Rapid synthesis: Identifying suicide-prevention interventions. McMaster Health Forum: Hamilton, ON. 

Awards and Scholarships

Joan Eakin Award for Methodological Excellence in a Qualitative Doctoral Dissertation - University of Toronto (2024)

SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral Scholarship (2016-2020)

Dean’s Honour List (2013): Top 10% academic achievement

Doris Guyatt Alumni Scholarship (2012): Highest GPA in program

Richard “Dick” Weiler Scholarship (2012): Social justice and development nationally and locally         

Tzu Chi Award (2011): Community work and academic achievement

Factor -Inwentash Faculty of Social Work Entrance Scholarship (2011): Top 25 applicant

Jason Lang Scholarship: Academic achievement (2006, 2007)         

Dean’s Honour List (2004, 2005)