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With a diverse set of experiences, I have worked within the fields of technology, higher-education, project management, student support, and youth social services. I am constantly inspired by the potential of technology and the concomitant solutions it can create. This fuels my research work, pushes my technical abilities, and encourages me to think critically about community projects.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Sociology
University of Toronto
Estimated Complete: 2026
B.A. (Hons) Sociology
King’s University College at Western University
Completed 2019
Masters of Arts (M.A) Sociology
University of Toronto
Completed 2020
Affiliations
Visiting Scholar, Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre, University of Sydney, February 2023
Research Student, Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, April 2019
Scholarships and Grants
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Science and Humanities Research Council $150,000
Graduate Fellowship, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, $7,500
Global Winner, Global Undergraduate Awards, Clarkson Medal Sociology and Social Policy
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto, $15,000
Faculty Association Award for Outstanding Achievement, King’s University College, $500
Global MINDs Fellowship, Western University & Africa Mental Health Foundation, $2,500
Selection of Professional Experience
Research Student, transLINK Network
Women’s College Hospital
April 2021 to Present
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
April 2019 to August 2020
Senior Research Assistant
University of Winnipeg, Department of Criminal Justice
Jan 2021 to Aug 2022
Senior Peer Learning Coach
Skills and Technology for Academic Resiliency and Success (S.T.A.R.S) Learning Lab
September 2018 to May 2019
Graduate Research Assistant
S.S.H.I.N.E Lab (Stigma and Sexual Health Interventions to Nurture Empowerment)
Sep 2021 to Sep 2023
Research Assistant
King’s University College at Western University
Jan 2018 to Dec 2019
Web Developer & Code Camp Program Coordinator
Arcane Digital Inc.
May 2015 to May 2018
Community Experience
Cyber Violence Research, Developing World Connections (DWC): Research support on ‘No to Gender Violence in Sri Lanka’ project with Developing World Connections and the Centre for Women’s Research (CENWOR).
Research Consultant, VESTA SIT: Vesta Social Innovation Technologies (SIT), a trusted, independent recording and reporting system for sexual violence.
Project Manager & Volunteer Support, Yotuni C.I: Yotuni Community Initiative (CI) provides camps, training, jobs, and services to colonized, underprivileged Indigenous youth and their families, impacting awareness, education, and prevention.
Technical Proficiency
Programming Experience in HTML, CSS (SCSS), JavaScript, React JS, Python, and Java
Statistical Training in SPSS, SAS, STATA, and R.
Qualitative Training in NVivo and Atlas.ti
Specialized Training
Introduction to R & Intermediate R Workshop
Statistical & Actuarial Science Department, Western University
Oct 10 to Oct 11 2018
Global MINDs Summer Institute
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry & African Mental Health Foundation
July 15 to July 28 2018
Indigenous Cultural Safety Training
Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Center (SOAHAC)
August 2018 to November 2018
Qualitative Research Workshop
Center of Ethnographic Research, University of California Berkeley
May 24 to June 28 2018
Academic Publications
Logie, Carmen., Miranda Loutet, Moses Okumu, Frannie MacKenzie, Madelaine Coelho, Simon Odong Lukone … et al. 2024. “Findings from the Todurujo na Kadurok (Empowering Youth) HIV self-testing and edutainment comic randomized controlled trial with refugee youth in a humanitarian setting in Uganda”. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. https://doi.og/10.1177/23259582241307057
Logie, Carmen, Moses Okumu, Miranda Loutet, Madelaine Coelho, Alyssa McAlpine … et al. 2024. “Contextualizing HIV testing experiences within the HIV prevention cascade: qualitative insights from refugee youth in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda”. BMC Public Health 24: 2599.
Kosa, Daisy S., Madelaine Coelho, Joseph Friedman Burley, Nicholas Lebel, C. Emma Kelly, Sheila Macdonald, Janice Du Mont. 2024. “Bridging Gaps in Collaboration between Community Organizations and Hospital-Based Violence Treatment Centers Serving Transgender Sexual Assault Survivors”. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 39(7-8): 1811-1829. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231211922
Logie, Carmen, Miranda Loutet, Moses Okumu, Madelaine Coelho, Simon Odong Lukone, Nelson Kisubi, Daniel Kibuuka Musoke, and Peter Kyambadde. 2023. “Exploring a syndemic of poverty, cumulative violence, and HIV vulnerability among refugee youth: multi-method insights from a humanitarian setting in Uganda”. AIDS Care 36(1): 36-43.
Logie, Carmen., Moses Okumu, Madelaine Coelho, Miranda Loutet, Isha Berry, Simon Odong Lukone, Nelson Kisubi, Daniel Kibuuka Musoke, and Peter Kyambadde. 2023. “Sexual Violence Stigma Experiences Among Refugee Adolescents and Youth in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda: Qualitative Insights informed by the Stigma Power Process Framework”. Social Science and Medicine - Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100242.
Du Mont, Janice., Madelaine Coelho, Nicholas Lebel, Joseph Friedman Burley, Sarah D. Kosa, and Sheila Macdonald. 2023. “Recommendations to Improve the Nature and Extent of Relationships Among Organizations Within a Network to Enhance Supports for Transgender Survivors of Sexual Assault”. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 29(4): 507-515.
Logie, Carmen, Madelaine Coelho, Brandon Kohrt, Alexander Tsai, and Emily Mendenhall. 2022. “Context, COVID-19, and co-morbidities: Exploring emergent directions in syndemics and HIV research.” Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS 17(2): 46-54. https://doi.org/10.1097/COH.0000000000000722
Coelho, Madelaine, and Liam Kennedy (equal co-authorship). 2022. “Security, Suspicion, and Surveillance? There’s an App for That.” Surveillance & Society 20(2): 127-141. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v20i2.14536
Logie, Carmen, Moses Okumu, Madelaine Coelho, Miranda Loutet, Manjulaa Narasimhan, Simon Odong Lukone … et al. 2022. “Water insecurity and sexual and gender-based violence among refugee youth: Qualitative insights from a humanitarian setting in Uganda.” Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 12(12): 883-893. https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2022.236
Logie, Carmen, Moses Okumu, Miranda Loutet, Madelaine Coelho, Isha Berry, Lesley Gittings, Simon Odong Lukone, Nelson Kisubi, Atama Malon, and Peter Kyambadda. 2022. “Todurujo na Kadurok (Empowering Youth): study design of an HIV self-testing and edutainment comic cluster randomized trial among refugee youth in an humanitarian setting in Uganda”. BMJ Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065452
Du Mont, Janice, Nicholas Lebel, Madelaine Coelho, Joseph Friedman Burley, Sarah Daisy Kosa, and Sheila Macdonald. 2022. “Advancing community-engaged research during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from a social network analysis of the trans-LINK Network”. PLoS One 17(11): e0271397. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271397
Coelho, Madelaine and Liam Kennedy (equal co-authorship). 2020. “‘Absolutely the worst drug I’ve ever seen’: Risk, Governance, and the Construction of the Illicit Fentanyl ‘Crisis’”. Theoretical Criminology 24(4): 612-632. Download Here.
Kennedy, Liam, Derek Silva, William Cipolli, and Madelaine Coelho. 2018. “We Are All Broncos”: Hockey, Tragedy, and the Formation of Canadian National Identity.” Sociology of Sport Journal 36(3): 189-202. Download Here.
Non-Refereed Research Output
Coelho, Madelaine, and Katharina Maier. 2021 (Sept). Winnipeg Front-Line Workers in the Methamphetamine Crisis. Winnipeg Fire and Paramedic Services.
Coelho, Madelaine. 2021 (June). Contextualizing Online Gender-Based Violence in Sri Lanka. Developing World Connections (Kamloops) & Centre for Women’s Research (Colombo).
Kovinthan, Thursica, Madelaine Coelho, & Lydia Gitanjai Thiagarajah. 2021 (Aug). Informing the Root Causes of Gender-Based Violence within the Hambantota, Batticaloa, and Killinochchi Districts. Developing World Connections (Kamloops) & Centre for Women’s Research (Colombo).
Coelho, Madelaine, Nicholas Lebel, Joseph Burley, Janice DuMont, and Sheila MacDonald. 2021 (June). The transLINK Network: a baseline evaluation of the connectivity and collaboration of members of the transLINK Network. Ontario Network of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centres.
Conference Presentations
‘Identifying Successes and Barriers Among Technology-Based Responses to Gender-Based Violence (GBV)’, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2023, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
’Practices to Empower Single Women, Deserted Women, and Female Sex Workers of Sri Lanka,’ Let the Women Decide the Margin Symposium funded by the European Union. June 2023, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
‘Managing the Methamphetamine Crisis: Public health workers and the governance of crime and drugs’, Law and Society Association Global Meeting. July 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.
‘An Examination of Collaboration among Community and Hospital-based Organizations Serving Trans Sexual Assault Survivors’, Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International, June 2022, Durham, North Carolina.
‘Strengthening Partnerships to Enhance Trans-Affirming Care for Sexual Assault Survivors: An Initial evaluation of an Intersectoral Network of Health and Community Service Providers’. IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, May 2022, Montreal, Quebec.
‘The Changing Role of Front-Line Workers in the Context of Drugs and Crime’, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Nov 2021, Chicago, Illinois.
‘Navigating Risk and Creating a Safer World? There’s an App for that’, ‘Methodology and #MeToo: Studying Feminist Social Movements in the Digital Era’, Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meeting. June 2020, London, Ontario.
‘Rape Myths in Digital Spaces: An Analysis of High-Profile Sexual Assault Cases on Twitter’, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Nov 2019, San Francisco, California.
‘Rape Myths in Digital Spaces: An Analysis of High-Profile Sexual Assault Cases on Twitter’, Global Undergraduate Awards Global Winner Presentation. Nov 2019, Dublin, Ireland.
‘A New Class of Drug Addicts’: News Media Coverage of the Fentanyl Overdose ‘Epidemic’, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. April 2018, Atlanta, Georgia.
