The Principal Investigator
Dr. Blythe Shepard is an Associate Professor at the University of Lethbridge.
An elementary teacher and counsellor, she has devoted her life to working with children and youth who live outside the box. Blythe’s doctoral dissertation involved exploring the ways in which young women construct future plans within the context of their rural community through the use of narratives, life-space mapping, possible selves, and photographs.
This ethnographic – narrative study led to research opportunities with Coasts Under Stress Research Project (funded by SSHRC/NSERC) and with Healthy Youth in a Healthy Society Project (funded by CIHR) as well as the SSRHC funded Paths to the Future project.
