Alexandria Pavelich

Alexandria R. Pavelich (she/her) (MA, PhDc) is a current interdisciplinary doctoral student at the intersection of health and social sciences focusing on critical disability studies and innovations in psychiatric care and suicide intervention. Identifying as a pain sociologist, her primary research explores how animal-assisted intervention can promote improved well-being in the context of mental health care, suicide prevention, addictions recovery, and pain management. Her endeavours have been funded by numerous agencies, such as Mental Health Research Canada, SSHRC (CGS-M; CGS-D), and the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation. With a professional knowledge translation certification (University of Toronto; SickKids), her independent research has been included in a variety of courses to help promote experiences of "mattering" for Veteran's working with service dogs, therapy dogs in institutional settings, and harm reduction approaches. She has had dozens of media appearances and invitations to international gatherings regarding her research and advocacy for those living with pain and suicidality, all of which can be found on her website.

More of her community-based research activities can be viewed at:

www.PAWSitiveConnectionsLab.com
www.ServiceDogResearch.ca
www.TherapyDogs.ca