Cassandra Kuyvenhoven

MA (Queen's University), HBA (McGill University) 
PhD Candidate

 

• 2016 - PhD Sociology, Queen's University (in progress)
• 2012 - M.A. Sociology, Queen’s University.
• 2010 - B.A. (Hons). McGill University

Teaching Assistant Positions:

01/2013-present: Teaching Assistant for ENSC 305: Environmental Sociology in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University

01/2013-present: Teaching Assistant for SOCY 211: Social Statistics in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University

09/2012-12/2012: Teaching Assistant for SOCY 210: Social Research Methods in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University

01/2012-05/2012: Teaching Assistant for SOCY 211: Social Statistics in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University

09/2011-12/2011: Teaching Assistant for SOCY 363: Science, Technology, and Society in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University

09/2010-04/2011: Teaching Assistant for SOCY 122: Introduction to Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University

Research Assistant Positions:

02/2013-present: Research Assistant “Feminist Studies of Taxation and Budgeting: Assessing the Impact of Global and Domestic Policies on Economic Crisis, Recovery, and Development”; SSHRC Funded

10/2012-present: Research Assistant ”Gendered Deployment in the Military”; Canadian Forces Leadership Institute, Department of National Defence.

02/2011-present: Research Assistant ”Citizen Science Solutions to Waste Management Issues”; SSHRC Funded

02/2010-05/2012 Research Assistant ”Health Research and Society: A Sociological Analysis of Ethical, Public Understanding and Knowledge Translation Issues”; SSHRC Funded

Publications:

Hird, Myra, R. Kerry Rowe, Scott Lougheed, Cassandra Kuyvenhoven. “Making Waste Management Public (or Falling Back Asleep)”. (under review).

Hird, Myra. Peter van Wyck, Cassandra Kuyvenhoven. “Canada’s Waste Flow” (in progress).

Kuyvenhoven, Cassandra. 2013. “Book Review: Richard Biernacki, Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry”. Journal of Canadian Sociology (in progress).

Kuyvenhoven, Cassandra. 2012. “Review: Mildred Blaxter’s Health 2nd ed.“Journal of Sociology 48(1): 109-11.

Conference Presentations:

Kuyvenhoven, Cassandra. "Moving Waste Around: The Impacts of Waste Transportation from an Environmental Sociology Perspective" Paper presentation at the Canadian Association of Geographers Special Session on Waste and Indeterminacy, August 2013, St. John’s, NFLD.

Kuyvenhoven, Cassandra. "Translating Knowledge Issues about Women’s Health Research" Poster presentation at the CIHR Advancing Excellence in Gender, Sex and Health Research Conference, October 2012, Montreal, QC.

Kuyvenhoven, Cassandra. "Canadian Universities: Situational Factors of Waste Managers and Waste Producers" Panel presentation at the Canadian Sociological Association, June 2012,   Waterloo, ON.

Kuyvenhoven, Cassandra. ‘Sociological Contributions to the Medical Definition and Treatment of Obesity’ Poster presentation at the 2nd National Obesity Summit, Apr 2011, Montreal, QC.

Invited Talks:

Guest lecture. School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP 889), Queen’s University. “Transnational Movement: The Transportation of Recycling” February 7th, 2013.

Guest lecture. School of Environmental Studies (ENSC 305), Queen’s University. “New Social Movements” March 5th, 2013.

Supervisor: Dr. Myra J. Hird