{"id":3217,"date":"2020-02-18T18:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T18:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2020-02-18T18:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T18:27:18","slug":"travel-bursary-winner-shannon-ward-presents-findings-at-ssea-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/2020\/02\/18\/travel-bursary-winner-shannon-ward-presents-findings-at-ssea-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Bursary Winner Shannon Ward Presents Findings at SSEA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CURLWhat can you do with a CURL Travel Bursary?<\/p>\n

Shannon Ward attended the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA) Conference in Toronto, where she presented findings from her thesis, \u201cChallenge Accepted: Exploring Predictors of Risky Online Behaviour in Emerging Adults.\u201d<\/p>\n

Networking with other researchers and attending the conference\u2019s many talks (including some by Huron\u2019s own professors), Shannon discussed known challenges affecting young adults\u2019 online behaviours, learned about new ones, and brainstormed ways to reduce risky behaviours\u2014especially with regards to social media and dating.<\/p>\n

Although networking and presenting are valuable benefits, conferences offer more opportunities for skill-building than just these. \u201cI picked up some really interesting tricks to making posters when wandering around the poster session,\u201d Shannon recounts. \u201cOne really great idea that a researcher used was keeping the poster really simple, but including a QR code to offer the viewer more information. I\u2019m always trying to put as much information on my posters as I can!\u201d<\/p>\n

The rigorous, thorough research at conferences also allows attendees to unearth complex insights about deceptively simple topics. For Shannon, presentations about \u201cghosting\u201d and \u201csliding into DMs\u201d were of particular interest. Who says there\u2019s nothing academic about Instagram?<\/p>\n

\u201cI truly enjoyed this entire experience and what it gave me,\u201d shares Shannon. \u201cI learned so much about things I\u2019d never heard of before and added to my knowledge of things I knew a bit about. I met some really great people who were interested in what I was doing and gave me some ideas for where to go next\u2026 although I still don\u2019t really know where that is yet!\u201d<\/p>\n

Her advice for other students: \u201cAny chance I get to share my findings and see what research is currently being done, I take\u2014and I would recommend the same to anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interested in some skill-building of your own? CURL\u2019s Travel Bursaries offer up to $500 in support of all sorts of research-based and skill-building travel\u2014no conference necessary. Learn more at the Travel Bursaries<\/a> page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What can you do with a CURL Travel Bursary? Shannon Ward attended the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA) Conference in Toronto, where she presented findings from her thesis, \u201cChallenge Accepted: Exploring Predictors of Risky Online Behaviour in Emerging Adults.\u201d Networking with other researchers and attending the conference\u2019s many talks (including some by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-quote","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"post_format-post-format-quote","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}