UBC Faculty of Arts published a Q & A with Dr. Sin on positive experiences as buffers against the health impacts of stress.
https://www.arts.ubc.ca/can-positive-experiences-reduce-the-damaging-impacts-of-stress/
Personality and positive events
Dr. Sin presented research on personality traits as predictors of daily positive events at the Society for the Study of Human Development conference in Portland, Oregon (Oct 2019).
Community Health
October 1st is National Seniors Day in Canada! Dr. Sin will be giving a talk on well-being and healthy aging for the “Importance of Community on Health” event at the South Arm Community Centre in Richmond on Sept 28. The event will support Chimo Community Services.
APA Award
Dr. Sin was awarded the 2019 Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging from Division 20 of the American Psychological Association! Read about it here.
Dr. Sin at APA 2019
2019 APA Division 20 early career award
SSHRC Grants
We were recently awarded a 4-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight grant to fund our research on the role of daily positive events in stress and coping. We also received a 2-year SSHRC Insight Development grant to support our work on positive well-being and aging!
MIDUS
Dr. Sin will present research findings about the role of daily positive events in stress appraisals at the Midlife in the United States Study (MIDUS) Meeting in Madison, WI (May 2019).
Psi Chi Award
Superstar Kevin Chi has won the UBC Psi Chi Distinguished Undergraduate Research Award! Congrats, Kevin!
Canada Foundation for Innovation
The UPLIFT Health Lab has been awarded infrastructure funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Read about it here: Funding to advance research on psychosocial well-being and healthy aging
PURC
Congrats to Honours student Jamile De Medeiros e Silva, who gave a fantastic presentation on sleep variability and affect at the UBC Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference!
APS
Jin Wen presented his research on self-control and cortisol stress reactivity at the American Psychosomatic Society conference (March 2019). Dr. Sin gave a talk on emotional vulnerability to short sleep and long-term functional limitations, and she was a roundtable facilitator on the topic of “Data for the Masses” (thank you to the Emerging Leaders SIG!).
Jin’s poster in the Citation Poster Session at APS (pictured with Dr. Nancy Sin and Dr. Julia Boehm)
Symposium on Emotion regulation and variability in relation to daily stressors and health
From left: Lewina Lee, Nancy Sin, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald (Symposium Chair), and Rebecca Reed
(not pictured: our awesome discussant, Dr. Aric Prather)
