Fanie Collardeau
(pronouns: She/her) is a PhD candidate in the clinical psychology program at the University of Victoria on the traditional territories of the Songhees, WSÁNEĆ, and Lekwungen people (British Columbia, Canada). Her PhD research aims to challenge mainstream Western definitions of shame, and to identify how they are informed by unacknowledged assumptions about the self, morality, and self-reliance (among others). Furthermore, her research seeks to locate definitions and experiences of shame within cultural beliefs about shame and systems of morality, and to illuminate how shame may at times signal the presence of discrimination and stigma maintaining political and economic inequalities. To do so, her research first explored the narratives about shame of Pakistani immigrants to Canada using a qualitative design. Her research then uses measurement invariance testing to illuminate processes of social construction and to explore how discrimination and, Pakistani and Canadian cultures, shape participants’ assessments and reports of state shame. She is supervised by Dr. Erica Woodin. Dr. Tahira Jibeen, who has worked with Pakistani immigrants to Canada, has been acting as a consultant for this research. Fanie’s research was funded by 2019 Grant-in-Aid from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.