Build Back Better: Challenges, Concerns, and COVID-19 in Canadian Education and Career Development
| dc.contributor.advisor | Robson, Karen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Thomson, Erica | |
| dc.contributor.department | Sociology | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-06-27T17:13:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-06-27T17:13:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation compiles works that focus on two industries during the COVID-19 pandemic: education and career development. These works address many of the pillars in the UN (2020) Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery, which aims to better understand the effects of the pandemic, and how our understanding of these effects can be leveraged to build back better. This dissertation focuses specifically on how both industries experienced the shift to virtual or online services that took place during the pandemic. To explore this topic this dissertation employs a mixed method, including the use of survey research, focus groups, and statistical analyses such as logistic regression to better understand who was most affected by the realities of the pandemic. This compilation of works highlights how shifts to online or virtual service delivery amplified existing social problems and inequalities, caused strain on individual’s mental health, and offers solutions for proactively future-pandemic or crisis-proofing. | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
| dc.description.degreetype | Dissertation | en_US |
| dc.description.layabstract | This research focuses on two industries during the COVID-19 pandemic: education and career development. The COVID-19 pandemic caused major disruptions in these industries, and many others across Canada. Therefore, this dissertation seeks to understand how both were impacted by the shift to virtual or online services that took place during the pandemic, who was affected most by these shifts, and how we can use the learnings during this time to build back better and create proactive measures against future disruptions. Three separate works form the foundation of this dissertation and come together to answer these questions. It finds that both industries identified rising mental health concerns as a post-pandemic challenge, and that the inequalities present prior to COVID-19 were exaggerated as a result of structural and logistical barriers to services. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/31889 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 | en_US |
| dc.subject | education | en_US |
| dc.subject | pandemic | en_US |
| dc.subject | career development | en_US |
| dc.subject | sociology | en_US |
| dc.title | Build Back Better: Challenges, Concerns, and COVID-19 in Canadian Education and Career Development | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |