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Item “To Live or Not to Live”: the silent voices of adolescents with disabilities in Ghana(2025) Naab, Florence; Asirifi, Mary A.; Adjei, Charles Ampong; Kyei, Josephine M.; Menkah, William; Gateri, Hellen; Reisdorfer, Emilene; Parikh, Reyna; Burgess-Pinto, ElizabethAbout 8% of Ghanaians, including adolescents, have various types of disabilities. Although many legal and constitutional protections for people with disabilities, including adolescents, exist in Ghana, it is widely known that these persons face a variety of psychosocial issues. Several factors have been identified as contributing to the unremitting marginalisation of people with disabilities in general, but the extent to which these can be generalised to adolescents with disabilities is unknown. This study, therefore, sought to document the determinants, manifestations, and consequences of disability-related stigma among differently abled adolescents in three special schools in northern, middle, and southern Ghana. An exploratory descriptive qualitative design was used. Overall, 54 participants were purposively selected for a semi-structured interview and focus group discussions. Braun and Clarke’s procedure for thematic analysis was followed. The findings showed a variety of stigmatising experiences by adolescents with disabilities in their sociocultural context. More broadly, the cause of disability was linked to the ramifications of parental sins against the gods, being a descendant of river gods, and the consequences of bewitchment/curses by family members. Others included the perceived transmissibility of the disability and disability as a visible condition. Stigma manifested in the form of pejorative labelling, ableism, and social exclusion. The consequences of this stigma included negative psychological and emotional effects (i.e., depression, low self-esteem, and a lack of confidence) and suicidal ideation. There is an urgent need for stigma reduction interventions for adolescents with disabilities in Ghana as part of an effort to improve their wellbeing.Item Research recast(ed): S1E17 - Student Research Day - allyship, e-scooters and criminal psychology(2022) Ekelund, Brittany; Cave, Dylan; Lakhani, Alysha-Khanu; Bailey, Brady; Thomas, MackenzieToday, we learn about three different MacEwan student research projects focusing on the topics of Indigenous allyship, sustainability and criminology. In our first Student Research Day podcast, we speak with three student researchers. First, Alysha-Khanu Lakhani discusses her paper on Indigenous allyship in the Asian Diaspora, touching on implicit bias, challenging perceptions and cognitive imperialism. Next we talk with Brady Bailey, whose award winning research looks at sustainability, e-scooters and the sharing economy. Lastly, we talk with Mackenzie Thomas about her pioneering research into typographies and risk assessment of criminogenic needs of sexual offenders.Item Consumerization of HR: the employee consumer style experience(2018) Amundson, Sandra; Wong, LeoEmployee consumer style relationships means exactly as it sounds, a customer type experience for the employee. Human Resource experts have found this topic as a trending factor to benefit businesses today. Looking internally as opposed to externally, businesses can gain a competitive advantage while retaining staff. This presentation informs the audience on what specifically is being done by businesses who have implemented ways to provide the “employee experience”. In contrast, a particular industry that lacks these practices. To conclude, some recommendations to help shift the industry in an internal direction.