Hello!

My name is Shanley. I am in my first year of the Interdisciplinary Social Research PhD program at Trent University.

My research interests are broadly in the intersection of place and crime, including rural criminology; land-use planning and crime prevention; community safety and well-being planning; and missing persons investigations.

I hold an MSc Rural Planning and Development program at the University of Guelph, where my thesis research focused on violent crime in rural Canada. 

Prior to that, I completed my BA Honours in Psychology with a minor in Business at Saint Mary’s University and received a Governor General’s Silver Medal for highest academic standing in the graduating class. My honours thesis research was a psychometric assessment of a Scrambling Scale, proposed as a measure of how individuals react in crisis situations.