Michaela Hynie
Professor, York University
- Ph.D. (McGill)
Michaela Hynie is an Associate Professor with expertise in social and cultural psychology in the Department of Psychology at York University, and the York Institute for Health Research. Dr. Hynie conducts qualitative and quantitative collaborative, multidisciplinary and community based research in two broad areas of well-being. The first focuses on building and evaluating the impact of social networks and social support, locally, nationally and internationally. Her second area of research examines settlement and integration among migrants. In this area she emphasizes refugee resettlement processes as a function of resettlement policies and services, and health care and mental health in relation to migration status and culture. Dr. Hynie is also the founder of the Program Evaluation Unit in the York Institute for Health Research, a unit that conducts, and builds capacity for, program evaluation in the area of health and well being in small not-for-profit organizations.
In the field of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Dr. Hynie is an Executive Committee Member of both the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) and the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). Her areas of research include Community-based Research, Immigration, Mental Health, Sexuality, and Social Psychology.
Source: CARFMS, York University
Supporting Mental Health Not Just at an Individual Level but at a Structural Level: Interviews with LERRN Partners, Pascal Zigashane and Michaela Hynie
Refugees experience extreme stress factors at every stage of their displacement: experiences of conflict and persecution, separation from families, xenophobia, perilous journeys, and precarity of …
Webinar: Realizing protection and solutions within North America
Event details and recordings available here. Detalles del evento y interpretación en español se pueden encontrar aquí. Détails de l’événement et interprétation en français sont …
Dr. Nimo Bokore Receives Funding for Innovative Project on Cultural-Based and Trauma-Informed Intervention
We want to celebrate Dr. Nimo Bokore, LERRN Co-Investigator and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University, who recently received funding …