Scott has authored/co-authored over 25 peer-reviewed journal article publications and over 60 conference presentations, including live workshops, oral talks, and poster presentations. Research topics have included healthcare service use, algorithm validation, hospitalization trends, neighbourhood influences, survey data validity, and educational trajectories. After serving as a reviewer for a student psychology journal, he has since served as reviewer for 15 peer-reviewed journals - spanning topic areas such as public health, psychiatric epidemiology, quality of life, immigration, psychology, and health policy.
He also serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal: the International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS).
Emerson SD, McLinden T, Sereda P, Trigg J, Yonkman AM, Salters K, Au S, Kooij KW, Budu M, Lima VD, Barrios R, Hogg RS. Identifying hospitalization episodes of care among people with and without HIV in British Columbia, Canada. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2025 [accepted May 2025].
Pardis S, Aleman D, Baxter N, Chaim B, Bodur M, Calzavara A, Campbell R, Carter M, de Jager P, Emerson SD, Gagliardi A, Irish J, Martin D, Lee S, Persitz J, Saxe-Braithaite M, Takata J, Varkul O, Yang S, Zanchetta C, Urbach D. Effect of single-entry referral models and team-based care on wait times for hip and knee joint replacement in Ontario: Discrete event simulation study. CMAJ. 2025 [accepted April 2025].
Budu M, Kooij KW, Heath K, McLinden T, Cardinal C, Emerson SD, Sereda P, Trigg T, Li J, Ding E, Hull MW, Salters KA, Lima VD, Barrios R, Montaner JSG, Hogg RS. Cohort Profile Update: Reflecting back and looking ahead – Updating the Comparative Outcomes and Service Utilization Trends (COAST) Study to include 28 years of linked data from people with and without HIV in British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Population Data Science. 2025;10(1). [Iink]
Marziali ME, Hansen S, Kooij KW, Budu M, Ye M, Tam C, McLinden T, Emerson SD, Montaner JSG, Parashar S, Hogg RS. Housing matters: The long-term impact of stable housing on mortality among people with HIV in British Columbia, Canada. Social Science & Medicine. 2025; 367:117713. [link]
Mudhikwa CV, Salters KA, Kooij KW, McLinden T, Emerson SD, Ye M, Li J, Nicholson V, Hogg RS, Closson K. Experiences of violence and hospitalization rates among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Care. 2025; 37 (3), 385-395 [link]
Pardis S, Aleman D, Chaim B, Baxter N, Bodur M, Calzavara A, Campbell R, Carter M, de Jager P, Emerson SD, Gagliardi A, Irish J, Lee S, Martin D, Saxe-Braithaite M, Takata J, Yang S, Zanchetta C, Urbach D. Referral patterns for common surgical procedures in Ontario: A cross-sectional population level study. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 2024; 67(6):E397-E405. [link]
Emerson SD, McLinden T, Sereda P, Peterson S, Trigg J, Yonkman AM, Hogg RS, Salters KA, Lima VD, Barrios R. Secondary use of routinely collected administrative health data for epidemiologic research: Answering research questions using data collected for a different purpose. International Journal of Population Data Science. 2024;9(1), 27. [link]
de Jager P, Aleman D, Baxter N, Baxter N, Bell C, Bodur M, Calzavara A, Campbell R, Carter M, Emerson SD, Gagliardi A, Irish J, Danielle M, Lee S, Saxe-Braithwaite M, Seyedi P, Takata J, Suting Y, Zanchetta C, Urbach DR. Surgeon- and hospital-level variation in wait times for scheduled non-urgent surgery in Ontario, Canada: A cross-sectional population-based study. PLoS One. 2024;19(8). [link]
Emerson SD, McLinden T, Sereda P, Moore DM, Salters KA, Hogg RS, Lima VD, Kooij KW, Yonkman AM, Wong J, Consolacion T, Toy J, Montaner JSG. Barrios R. Identification of people with low prevalence diseases in administrative healthcare records: A case study of HIV in British Columbia, Canada. PLoS One. 2023;18(8). [link]
Yorke E, Toulany A, Chiu M, Gandhi S, Guttmann A, Emerson SD, Kurdyak P, Vigod S, Fung K, Saunders N. A population-based, repeated cross-sectional study of hospitalizations for comorbid physical and psychiatric disorders over time among young adults in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2023; 73(4), 715-723. [link]
Yazdani K, Salters K, Dolguikh K, Ye Monica, Trigg J, Moore D, Joe R, Emerson SD, Barrios R, Montaner JSG. Characterizing opioid agonist therapy uptake and factors associated with retention among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada. Preventive Medicine Reports. 2023; 35, 1-8. [link]
Emerson SD, Gagné Petteni M, Puyat J, Guhn M, Georgiades K, Milbrath C, Janus M, Gadermann AM. Neighbourhood context and diagnosed mental health conditions among immigrant and non-immigrant youth: A population-based cohort study in British Columbia, Canada. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2023; 58 (5), 693-709. [link]
de Jager P, Aleman D, Baxter N, Bell C, Bodur M, Calzavara A, Campbell R, Carter M, Emerson SD, Gagliardi A, Irish J, Martin D, Lee S, Saxe-Braithaite M, Takata J, Yang S, Zanchetta C, Urbach D. Social determinants of access to timely elective surgery in Ontario, Canada: A cross-sectional population level study. CMAJ Open. 2023;11(6):E1164-E1180. [link]
Emerson SD, Gagné Petteni M, Guhn M, Janus M, Georgiades K, Milbrath C, Schonert-Reichl KA, Gadermann AM. Social context factors and refugee children’s emotional health. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2022; 57(4), 829-841. [link]
Hamilton MA, Calzavara A, Emerson SD, Djebli M, Sundaram M, Mishra S, Baral SD, Kustra R, Chan A, Kwong JC. Validating International Classification of Disease 10th Revision algorithms for identifying influenza and respiratory syncytial virus hospitalizations. PloS One. 2021; 16(1): e0244746. [link]
Emerson SD, Ritland R, Guhn M. A scoping review of associations between ethno-cultural context and mental health in Canada. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health. 2021; 40(2):1-26. [link]
Gagné M, Guhn M, Janus M, Georgiades K, Emerson SD, Milbrath C, Duku E, Magee C, Schonert-Reichl KA, Gadermann AM. Thriving, catching up, or falling behind: Immigrant and refugee children’s kindergarten competencies and later academic achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology. 2021; 113(7): 1387-1404. [link]
Gadermann AM, Karim ME, Norena M, Emerson SD, Hubley AM, Russell LB, Nisenbaum R, Hwang SW, Aubry T, Palepu A. The association of residential instability and hospitalizations among homeless and vulnerably-housed individuals: Results from a prospective cohort study. Journal of Urban Health. 2020; 97: 239-249. [link]
Guhn M, Emerson SD, Mahdaviani D, Gadermann AM. Associations of birth factors and socio-economic status with indicators of early emotional development and mental health in childhood: A population-based linkage study. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 2020; 51(1): 80-93. [link]
Guhn M, Emerson SD, Gouzouasis P. A population-level analysis of associations between school music participation and academic achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology. 2020; 112(2): 308-328. [link]
Emerson SD, Carbert NS. An apple a day: Protective associations between nutrition and the mental health of immigrants in Canada. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2019; 54(5): 567-578. [link]
Thomson KC, Richardson CG, Gadermann AM, Emerson SD, Shoveller J, Guhn M. Profiles of childhood social-emotional functioning at school entry and associated early onset mental health conditions. JAMA Network Open. 2019; 2(1): 1-15. [link]
Emerson SD, Mâsse LC, Ark TK, Schonert-Reichl KA, Guhn M. A population-based analysis of life satisfaction and social support among children of diverse backgrounds in British Columbia, Canada. Quality of Life Research. 2018; 27(10): 2595-2607. [link]
Emerson SD, Carbert NS. Obesity and region-level immigrant density. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 2018; 20(5):1298-1302. [link]
Gadermann AM, Chen M, Emerson SD, Zumbo BD. Examining validity evidence of self-report measures using Differential Item Functioning: An illustration of three methods. Methodology. 2018; 14(4): 164-175. [link]
Emerson SD, Minh A, Guhn M. Ethnic density of regions and psychiatric disorders among ethnic minority individuals. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 2018; 64(2): 141-155. [link]
Guhn M, Ark TK, Emerson SD, Schonert-Reichl KA, Gadermann AM. The Satisfaction with Life Scale adapted for Children: Measurement invariance across gender and over time. Psychological Assessment. 2018; 30(9): 1261-1266. [link]
Emerson SD, Gadermann AM, Guhn M. Measurement invariance of the Satisfaction with Life Scale: Reviewing three decades of research. Quality of Life Research. 2017; 26(9): 2251-2264. [link]
*Received an 'Articles of the Year' award by the International Society for Quality of Life Research
Allan LJ, Johnson JA, Emerson SD. The role of individual difference variables in ageism. Personality and Individual Differences. 2014; 59: 32-37. [link]
Emerson SD, Allan LJ, Johnson JA. La nature de l’âgisme chez les jeunes adultes. Vie et Vieillissement. 2013;11(2):5-11. [link]
Benchimol E, Wei L, Kuenzig E, Im J, Zheng Y, Emerson SD, Eissa A, Halder H, Shaw R, Chan AW, Dixon W, Ehrenstein V, Guttmann A, Harron K, Hemkens L, Hróbjartsson A, Johnston A, Lyons R, Macdonald S, Maniate J, Moher D, Petersen I, Quan H, Schmidt S, Sørensen H, Wang S, McAllister D, Langan S. Methodological challenges when using routinely collected health data for research: A scoping review. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. Jun 2025. Minneapolis, MN. [link]
Yazdani K, Tam C, Fisher C, Emerson SD, Trigg J, Kooij KW, De Vera M, Vila-Rodriguez, Hogg R, Montaner JSG, Lima VD. A methodological framework for constructing opioid agonist therapy episodes in administrative data. Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference. May 2025. Ottawa, ON.
Wood T, Emerson SD, Salters KA, Kooij KW, Sereda P, Trigg J, Heath KA, Nguyen L, Montaner JSG. A Review of validation studies to ascertain conditions using Canadian electronic medical records: highlighting an evidence gap for identifying people living with HIV, hepatitis C, and substance use disorders. Canadian Association of HIV Research (CAHR) conference. May 2025. Halifax, NS. [link]
Nguyen L, Emerson SD, Sereda P, Kooij KW, Marziali M, Salters KA, Wood T, Montaner JSG. Examining a method to classify deaths of an unknown cause as presumably drug-related, among people with HIV in British Columbia during the unregulated drug toxicity crisis. CAHR conference. May 2025. Halifax, NS. [link]
Safavi P, Ready E, Gnyra M, Chan M, Shen T, Espinoza R, Trigg J, Emerson SD, Sereda P, Sin O, Toy J, Montaner J. Cross-sectional analysis of antiretroviral dosing in chronic kidney disease among people living with HIV in British Columbia. CAHR conference. May 2025. Halifax, NS. [link]
Dhinsa R, Kooi KW, Budu M, Wang X, Li J, Marziali M, Emerson SD, Hogg RS. Acute complications during hospitalized nonfatal overdose are more likely among people with HIV than those without HIV, in British Columbia CAHR conference. May 2025. Halifax, NS. [link]
Naidu N, Golzar N, Emerson SD, Budu M, McLinden T, Hogg RS, Kooij KW. The use of area-based measures of socioeconomic status in studies assessing health outcomes among people living with HIV in Canada and the United States: Scoping review. CAHR conference. May 2025. Halifax, NS. [link]
Kooij KW, Dhinsa R, Wang X, Tam C, Budu M, Yazdani K, Marziali M, Emerson SD, Sereda P, Parashar S, Lima VD, Salters KA, Barrios R, Montaner JSG, Hogg RS. Initiation of opioid agonist therapy within seven days following a nonfatal opioid poisoning among people living with HIV in British Columbia. CAHR conference. May 2025. Halifax, NS. [link]
Budu MO, Kooij KW, McLinden T, Emerson SD, Trigg J, Marziali ME, Lu M, Wang X, Sereda P, Hogg RS. Sex differences in overdose-related hospitalizations among people living with HIV in Canada. CAHR conference. May 2025. Halifax, NS. [link]
Korzuchowski A, Sereda P, Salters KA, Chan M, Wang L, Emerson SD, Lima VD, Toy J, Montaner JSG, Barrios R. Hepatitis C therapeutic outcomes among people living with HIV: Examining effectiveness of early DAA era therapy in British Columbia. CAHR conference. May 2025. Halifax, NS. [link]
Wei L, Kuenzig E, Im J, Zheng Y, McLinden T, Emerson SD, Ehrenstein V, Guttmann A, Harron K, Hemkens L, Hróbjartsson A, Johnston A, Lyons R, MacDonald S, Maniate J, Moher D, Petersen I, Quan H, Schmidt S, Sørensen H, Wang S, McAllister D, Langan S, Benchimol E. Methodological challenges when using routinely collected healthcare data for research: A scoping review. International Journal of Population Data Science. 2024; 9(5). [link]
Saunders NR, Guttmann A, Chiu M, Gandhi S, Vigod S, Kurdyak P, Fung K, Sharpe I, Emerson SD, Toulany A. Long-term trends in co-occurring medical and psychiatric hospitalizations among children and adolescents in Ontario, Canada. International Journal of Population Data Science. 2024; 9(5). [link]
Emerson SD, McLinden T, Sereda P, Yonkman A, Trigg J, Barrios R, Hogg RS. Identifying hospitalization episodes of care among people with and without HIV in British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Population Data Science. 2024; 9(5). [link]
Marziali ME, Cardinal C, Hansen S, Kooij KW, Budu M, Ye M, Tam C, Nicholson V, McLinden T, Emerson SD, Montaner JSG, Hogg RS. Housing matters: Housing instability and mortality among people with HIV in British Columbia, Canada. The International Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome conference. Jul 2024. Munich, Germany.
Marziali ME, Kooij K, Budu M, Ye M, Tam C, Nicholson V, Hansen S, McLinden T, Emerson SD, Montaner JSG, Hogg RS. Housing matters: The impact of housing instability on all-cause mortality among people with HIV in British Columbia, Canada. Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) Annual Meeting. Jun 2024. Austin, TX. [link]
Emerson SD, McLinden T, Sereda P, Trigg J, Lu H, Yonkman A, Budu M, Barrios R, Hogg RS. Identifying hospitalization episodes of care among people with HIV using a pan-Canadian linkage of hospital records. Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference. May 2024. Ottawa, ON. [link]
Kooij KW, Marziali M, Budu M, Ding E, Tam C, Cunningham N, Cardinal C, Emerson SD, Salters K, Barrios R, Montaner J, Hogg RS. Determinants of Leaving the Emergency Department without Completion of Care among People with and without HIV Attending with a Suspected Overdose. Canadian Association of HIV Research (CAHR) conference. Apr 2024. London, ON. [link]
Budu M, Kooij KW, McLinden T, Emerson SD, Trigg J, Marziali ME, Lu M, Sereda P, Hogg RS. Overdose-Related Hospitalizations among People with HIV in Canada. CAHR conference. Apr 2024. London, ON. [link]
Sykes G, Salters K, Tam C, Wang L, Emerson SD, Yonkman A, Azar P, Ignaszewski M, Trigg J, Lima VD, Yazdani K, White R, Barrios R, Montaner JSG. Characterizing incidence and therapeutic management of psychosis-related disorder among people living with HIV: A retrospective analysis in British Columbia, Canada. CAHR conference. Apr 2024. London, ON. [link]
Muirhead M, Inglis K, Budu M, Nicholson V, Campbell W, Frank P, Lambert S, Magagula P, Guillemi S, Murray MCM, McLinden T, Marziali M, Emerson SD, Kooij K, Worthington C, Hogg RS. Incidence and Recurrence Rates of Cardiovascular Disease Events Among People Living with and without HIV in British Columbia: A Community-led Study. CAHR conference. Apr 2024. London, ON. [link]
Hansen S, Marziali ME, Kooij KW, Budu M, Ye M, Tam C, Nicholson V, McLinden T, Emerson SD, Montaner JSG, Hogg RS. The impact of housing instability on substance-involved mortality among people with HIV in British Columbia, Canada. CAHR conference. Apr 2024. London, ON. [link]
Korzuchowski A, Sereda P, Emerson SD, Lima VD, Toy J, Barrios R, Montaner J, Chan M, Wang C, Salters K. Hepatitis C therapeutic outcomes among people concurrently living with HIV: Examining the impact of modern DAA therapy in British Columbia. CAHR conference. Apr 2024. London, ON. [link]
Au S, Bytelaar S, Shen T, Emerson SD, Ly J, Kelly S, Sykes G, Fulton C, Hull M, Barrios R, Montaner JSG, Salters S. Trends in Unregulated Substance Use Among a Cohort of Patients Recently Treated for Hepatitis C in British Columbia, Canada. CAHR conference. Apr 2024. London, ON. [link]
Emerson SD, McLinden T, Sereda P, Yonkman A, Trigg J, Barrios R, Hogg RS. Identifying hospitalization episodes of care in British Columbia, Canada: Implementation among people with and without HIV. CAHR conference. Apr 2024. London, ON. [link]
Kooij KW, Emerson SD, Trigg J, Marziali M, Sereda P, Barrios R, Montaner J, Hogg RS. Most People with and without HIV who Experience Nonfatal or Fatal Overdoses are not Identified as People who Use Drugs in Administrative Health Data. CAHR conference. Apr 2024. London, ON. [link]
Yorke E, Toulany A, Chiu M, Gandhi S, Guttmann A, Emerson SD, Kurdyak P, Vigod S, Sharpe I, Kopec M, Fung K, Saunders N. Long-term trends in co-occurring medical and psychiatric hospitalizations among children and adolescents in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Psychiatric Association conference. Oct 2023. Vancouver, BC.
Emerson SD, Sereda P. Leveraging administrative health data for monitoring HIV in BC: The STOP HIV/AIDS data linkage. Annual meeting of the Public Health Agency of Canada STBBI Field Surveillance Officers. Jun 2023. Vancouver, BC.
Yazdani K, Salters K, Dolguikh K, Ye M, Trigg J, Moore D, Joe R, Emerson SD, Montaner J, Barrios R. Characterizing opioid agonist therapy uptake and correlates of retention among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada. CAHR) conference. Apr 2023. Québec City, QC. [link]
Emerson SD, McLinden T, Sereda P, Yonkman A, Montaner JSG, Barrios R. Identification of people living with HIV in administrative healthcare records: A population-based data linkage study in British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Association of HIV Research (CAHR) conference. Apr 2023. Québec City, QC. [link]
Budu M, Kooij K, Li J, Ye M, McLinden T, Emerson SD, Montaner JSG, Hogg RS. The Association Between rurality and 30-day hospital readmissions among people with and without HIV: A population-based cohort study. CAHR conference. Apr 2023. Québec City, QC. [link]
Yonkman A, Sereda P, Trigg, J, Lima VD, Emerson SD, McLinden T, Montaner JSG, Barrios R. Updating the STOP HIV/AIDS program monitoring strategy to reflect the changing landscape of HIV/AIDS in British Columbia, Canada. CAHR conference. Apr 2023. Québec City, QC. [link]
Closson K, Mudhikwa C, Chia J, McLinden T, Emerson SD, Marshall C, Salters K, Hogg RS. Exploring differences in violence and abuse-related healthcare utilization and mortality among people living with and without HIV in British Columbia, Canada. International AIDS conference. Jul 2022. Montreal, QC. [link]
Emerson SD. Identification algorithms and related considerations in using administrative data for epidemiology. Population Data BC webinar in the series: Advanced Methods for the Analysis of Population-wide Administrative Health Data. Jun 2022. Virtual. [link]
Cheung A, Rahim T, Emerson SD, Powell L, Johnston KM. Use of real-world evidence to evaluate Infliximab biosimilars: A scoping review. Value in Health. 2022; 25(S1), S18-S19. [link]
Emerson SD, Yonkman A, McLinden T, Sereda P, Barrios R, Montaner JSG. Time until initiation of HIV care after an HIV+ test result recorded from 1997 to 2016 in British Columbia, Canada. CAHR conference. Apr 2022. Virtual. [link]
Yonkman A, Emerson SD, McLinden T, Sereda P, Barrios R, Montaner JSG. Examining healthcare service utilization patterns of people living with HIV in rural British Columbia, Canada. CAHR conference. Apr 2022. Virtual. [link]
Schneider JE, Emerson SD, Johnston KM, Szabo SM. Lost in translation: Analytic applications of public health data to inform evaluations of the efficacy, effectiveness, and value of interventions for COVID-19. Annual International Meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR). May 2021. Virtual. [live workshop] [link]
Emerson SD, Johnston KM, Howarth A, Schneider JE, Friesen M, Szabo SM. Leveraging publicly available data to estimate real-time reproduction number (Rt) for COVID-19: A comparison of two methods. Value in Health. 2021; 24(S1):S114. [link]
Hamilton MA, Calzavara A, Emerson SD, Kwong JC. Validating International Classification of Disease 10th Revision algorithms for identifying influenza and respiratory syncytial virus hospitalizations. University of Toronto Journal of Public Health. 2021; 2(2). [link]
Saunders NR, Chiu M, Gandhi S, Toulany A, Emerson SD, Vigod SN, Kurdyak P, Yorke E, Fung K, Guttmann A. Long-term trends in comorbid medical and psychiatric hospitalizations among children and adolescents in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) Annual Conference. May 2020. Virtual. [link]
Evans HA, Emerson SD, Strutt R, Dhariwal A. Mind Body Connection: A six-month follow-up study of multifamily treatment for youth affected by somatization. Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Convention. Jun 2019. Halifax, NS. [link]
Gagné M, Guhn M, Emerson SD, Magee C, Milbrath C, Gadermann AM. Thriving, catching up, or falling behind: Immigrant and refugee children’s kindergarten competencies and later academic achievement. International Journal of Population Data Science. 2019; 4(3). [link]
Gadermann AM, Emerson SD, Chen L, Gagné M, Guhn M. Associations of childhood obesity with health and academic outcomes in childhood and adolescence: A population-based
linkage study. Conference on the Use of Secondary and Open Source Data in Developmental Science. Oct 2018. Phoenix, AZ. [link]
Emerson SD, Guhn M, Mahdaviani D, Gadermann AM. Developmental trajectories of birth-related factors and children’s psychological health: A population-level linkage study. Conference on the Use of Secondary and Open Source Data in Developmental Science. Oct 2018. Phoenix, AZ. [link[
Emerson SD. Associations between school music and academic outcomes in public high schools: A population-level analysis in BC. Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) Lunch
and Learn seminar. Jan 2018. Vancouver, BC.
Emerson SD. Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the satisfaction with life scale adapted for children. UBC Quantitative Methods Society Research talk. Oct 2017. Vancouver, BC.
Emerson SD, Strutt R, Chapman A, Newlove T, Stanford E, Dhariwal A. A focus on emotional and psychosocial development for somatizing youth and their caregivers: A pilot open-label trial. British Columbia Children’s Hospital (BCCH) Research Day. Sep 2017. Vancouver, BC.
Guhn M, Ark TK, Emerson SD, Schonert-Reichl KA, Gadermann AM. The Satisfaction with Life Scale adapted for Children: Measurement invariance across gender and over time.
International Society for Child Indicators conference. Jun 2017. Montréal, QC. [link]
Emerson SD, Mâsse LC, Guhn M. The life satisfaction of children from various ethno-cultural backgrounds living in British Columbia. Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) conference. Jun 2017. Halifax, NS. [link]
Emerson SD, Guhn M. Mood and anxiety disorders among ethnic minorities: Does regional ethnic density matter? University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine Research Day.
May 2017. Vancouver, BC.
Emerson SD, Guhn M. Region-level ethnic density and the health status of ethnic minorities across Canada. University of British Columbia Public Health Club Symposium. Jan 2017. Vancouver, BC.
Emerson SD, Guhn M. Measurement equivalence of the satisfaction with life scale: Reviewing three decades of research. Public Health Association of British Columbia (PHABC) meeting. Dec 2016. Richmond, BC.
McKeown SB, Emerson SD, Cull I, DeMarinis M. Making the most of our community: A holistic approach to understanding student success. Canadian Association of College and University Student Services (CACUSS) Conference. May 2015. Vancouver, BC.
McKeown SB, Kavanagh TA, Emerson SD, Pihlainen DJ. Examining three years’ of data from a prospective longitudinal evaluation study. Pacific Northwest Association for Institutional Research and Planning (PNAIRP) conference. Nov 2014. Seattle, WA.
McKeown SB, Emerson SD. Survey analysis: The importance of psychometric evaluation. Workshop presented at the biannual British Columbia Institutional Research and Planning (BCIRP) meeting. Jun 2014. Richmond, BC.
Emerson SD. Undergraduate research opportunities at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Information panel organized by the UBC Okanagan Student Research Society. Mar 2014. Kelowna, BC.
Emerson SD, Davies PG, Hutchinson SM. Effects of mortality salience on perceived criminality of White and Black suspects. Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) convention. Jun 2013. Québec City, QC. [link]
Emerson SD. Sectarianism and intractable conflict in Northern Ireland. Guest lecture for English 153: Readings in Narrative course at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Mar 2013. Kelowna, BC.
Allan LJ, Emerson SD. Ageism among undergraduates: The role of individual difference variables. Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology. (CAG) Oct 2012. Vancouver, BC. [link]
Emerson SD, Allan LJ. The role of personality, gratitude, and empathy in attitudes about aging. Kwantlen Connecting Minds North American Psychology Conference. May 2012. Vancouver, BC.
Emerson SD, Allan LJ. Attitudes toward aging: The role of personality, gratitude, and empathy. Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference. April 2012. Kelowna, BC.