Stephanie Hatzifilalithis

Stephanie Hatzifilalithis

PhD Candidate, McMaster University

Poster Competition Winner

Bio

Stephanie Hatzifilalithis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Health, Aging, and Society at McMaster University, working under the supervision of Professor Amanda Grenier at the Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Stephanie has been awarded a SSHRC doctoral scholarship, Ontario Graduate/Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology, and the Wilson Leadership Scholar Award. Her work focuses on intergenerationality and ageism and brings an interdisciplinary lens to challenges facing aging populations with a BSc Hons in Psychology from the International Faculty of The University of Sheffield and a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London, UK. She is passionate about building intergenerational connections through innovative knowledge mobilization practice. With a focus on co-housing; solidarity; and equity, her dissertation research looks at how intergenerational landscapes are understood in the 21st century and investigates how new configurations (i.e., Senior and student co-housing) influence later life through ethnographic and community-based research.