Wilfrid Laurier University

Navigating the Early Years: A Guide for New Faculty

ABSTRACT The transition from doctoral student to tenure‐track assistant professor marks a critical juncture in an academic career. This conceptual commentary offers experience‐based insights for early‐career accounting faculty, addressing the distinct pressures of a discipline sh...

Does thinking about (in)active others influence physical activity intentions? An experimental investigation of availability heuristics and descriptive norms

Substantial nonexperimental research has demonstrated that individuals’ perceptions that personally important others are physically active (i.e., positive descriptive norm perceptions) are positively associated with physical activity (PA) intentions. However, little experimental...

World’s population susceptible to water risks is concentrated in two of the 58 IPCC reference regions

The use of climate reference regions is a common practice in climate change research and impact assessment studies 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , having been utilized especially within the context of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Assessment Reports (ARs) over the past 2...

Bullying victimization, language proficiency, and school belonging among Syrian refugee early adolescents in Canada: A cross‐lagged and random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel study

Abstract Refugee children's school adjustment is often associated with host country language proficiency, peer victimization, and school belonging, but longitudinal associations among these constructs may reflect both stable child differences and time‐varying school‐experience pr...

MODFLOW-informed machine learning for interpretable groundwater level prediction under sparse monitoring conditions in the Eastern Mitidja Aquifer, Northern Algeria

Predicting groundwater levels in semi-arid regions is challenging because groundwater systems are controlled by complex processes and monitoring data are often scarce. This study compares six machine learning models—Random Forest (RF), XGBoost, LightGBM, RBF-SVR, LSTM, and CNN—fo...

What “Taylor’s Up To Now”: Branding Media, Constructing the Self, and Selling Taylor Swift’s Star Persona

Taylor Swift’s self-branding and persona construction are deeply intertwined with her co-branding partnerships, which transform advertising into extensions of her autobiographical storytelling. Through Easter eggs, home videos, photographs, diary excerpts, and musical references,...

Collaboratively building teaching resources for EDI in epidemiology and biostatistics

Abstract Objectives The objective of this workshop was to collaboratively co-create concrete, practical teaching resources that embed equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) concepts into epidemiology and biostatistics teaching in Canada. Methods The 3-h interactive session develo...

The opposing effects of shortened days and cooling temperatures on tundra plant senescence

Plant responses to global change are well-studied in spring and early summer but less so in late summer, particularly in tundra ecosystems. It remains unclear whether senescence is driven more by temperature or photoperiod, and whether species respond similarly under late-season...