15 graduate students awarded Inlight Research Fellowships in support of mental health research
Published: April 9, 2025
Fifteen students from across the University of Toronto are recipients of 2024-2025 Inlight Research Fellowships awarded by Inlight Student Mental Health Research, a U of T institutional strategic initiative committed to improving student mental health and wellness outcomes.
The fellowship offers funding support for graduate scholars and, this year, also includes a one-year training program designed to support fellows in developing knowledge and research skills related to post-secondary student mental health and well-being.
“The new direction of our Inlight Fellowship Program continues to align with our mandate to support the development of leaders in post-secondary student mental health research,” said Julius Haag, Inlight’s associate director, education and training and an assistant professor, teaching stream in the department of sociology at U of T Mississauga. "It also provides an opportunity for funding and training support to even more promising scholars as we continue to address the important need for effective and impactful, student mental health research."
Here is the full list of Inlight’s 2024-2025 research fellowship award recipients:
- Yasmin Aboelzahab – PhD candidate, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
- Avery Hinchcliffe – master's student, Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education
- Jenny Hui – PhD student in counselling and clinical psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
- Zaiyuan Hu – PhD student in personality psychology, U of T Mississauga
- Noah Khan – PhD student in social justice education, OISE
- Sarah Kuburi – PhD student in developmental psychology and education, OISE
- Prisca Obierefu – PhD candidate in psychology, U of T Scarborough
- Victoria Parlatore – PhD student in higher education, OISE
- Zoe Pavlovic – master's student in rehabilitation sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Katherine Sainsbury – PhD student, Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
- Mercedes Sobers – PhD candidate in epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Stephen Tu – PhD student, OISE
- Liliana C. Wu – PhD student in psychology, U of T Mississauga
- Yuchen Zhang – PhD student in applied psychology and human development, OISE
- Yitong Zhao – PhD candidate in psychology, U of T Scarborough
