Sandra D. Noel
PhD Student
Email: sandra.noel@mail.utoronto.ca
Areas of Interest
- Gendered-based Violence
- Caribbean Carnival
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Colonialism and Post-Colonial Studies
- Critical Studies
- Black Diaspora and Transnational Studies
- Feminism and Political Studies
- Race and Cultural Studies
- Human Rights
Biography
Sandra Noel is a Ph.D. Student at the University of Toronto in the Women and Gender Studies Institute. Her research focuses on gender-based violence in the Eastern Caribbean region through a feminist lens.
Trained in Social Work at York University, Sandra’s MA’s research on child sexual abuse in Grenada is a collaboration of social work and feminist theories, which underscores the societal factors and the increased risk associated with the phenomenon surrounding child sexual abuse.
Sandra uses poetry as a creative expression to highlight the trauma borne by women experiencing domestic violence. Her creativity flows into her success with screenwriting, grounded in newneorealism theories, which portray institutional violence as the fundamental linkage of women’s victimization in domestic violence cases.
Program: PhD
Education
Master of Art, York University
Bachelor’s in Social Work (BSW), York University
Dissertation
Supervisor: Alissa Trotz