Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters 

Laura M. Lee. 2015. “Left to stand alone? Youth engagement, solidarity and meaningful exchange.” pp 153-174. In Youth at the margins: experiences from engaging youth in research worldwide, Edited by Bastien, S. & Holmarsdottir, H. Sense Publishers: Rotterdam.

Laura M. Lee. 2013. “Socio-economic Structures and Sexual Health of Marginalized Youth: Policy Implications in Kenya.” Pp. 197 – 222. In Africa Rising: A Continent Through the Eyes of Emerging Scholars, Edited by Shaw, E. and Mackinnon, H., Africa Initiative: The Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo.

Laura M. Lee. 2012. “Youths navigating social networks and social support systems in settings of chronic crisis: the case of youth-headed households in Rwanda.” African Journal of AIDS Research, Special Issue: Resilience and coping strategies of HIV-affected children in sub-Saharan Africa. Volume 11. Issue 3, pp. 165 – 175.

Laura M. Lee. 2012. “Reducing HIV Infection Rates Among Young Kenyan Women.” Backgrounder No. 40, September 21, 2012. Africa Portal. Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo. Available at africaportal.org.

Laura M. Lee. 2012. “Strategies to Support Youth-headed Households in Kenya and Rwanda.” Backgrounder No. 43, October 25, 2012. Africa Portal. Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo. Available at africaportal.org.

Laura M. Lee. 2012. “The Impact of HIV on the Sexual Health of Kenya’s Young Generation.” Backgrounder No. 28, May 9, 2012. Africa Portal. Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo. Available at africaportal.org.

Laura M. Ward and Carola Eyber. 2009. “Resiliency of children in child-headed households in Rwanda: implications for community-based psychosocial interventions.” Intervention: The International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict, Volume 7, Number 1 (March), pp. 17-33.

Conferences and Presentations

Peer-reviewed

Philip Cook, Laura M. Lee. 2017. Assessing children’s developmental outcomes resulting from play and sport based interventions supporting children displaced by conflict and war. International Play Association, Calgary, September (Oral Presentation)

Laura M Lee, Philip Cook, 2017. Best practices for evaluating sport and play-based interventions with displaced youth, Canadian Evaluation Society Conference, May 1, Vancouver (Oral Presentation)

Laura M. Lee. Navjot Gill. 2017. Participatory Approaches to Working in Partnership with Communities. British Colombia Council for International Cooperation, April 12 (Invited Facilitator)

L. Lee, J. Dietrich, L. Greener, L. Makhale, P. Smith, S. Hornschuh, T. Mathenjwa, J. Smit, M. Brockman^, G.Gray, M. Beksinska, A. Kaida. Gender and power dynamics of social relationships shape willingness to participate in biomedical HIV prevention research among South African adolescents and young adults. International Aids Society Conference, Paris, 2017, July (First Author, Oral Presentation)

Angela Kaida, Janan Dietrich, Letitia Greener, Patricia Smith, Stefanie Hornschuh, Thulile Mathenjwa, Lerato Makhale, Laura Lee, Mags Beksinska, Thumbi Ndung’u, Mark Brockman, Glenda Gray, Jenni Smit. 2017. Facilitators and barriers to participating in PrEP trials among adolescent girls and young women enrolled in a youth-centred HIV prevention study in South Africa. 26th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research (CAHR 2017), held April 6-9, 2017 at the Hôtel Bonaventure in Montreal, Quebec. (Accepted)

Laura M Lee, Philip Cook, 2017. Best practices for evaluating sport and play-based interventions with displaced youth, Canadian Evaluation Society Conference, May 1, Vancouver (Oral Presentation)

Laura M. Lee, 2015. Relationality and the impact of shifting caregiving structures on youth’s experience of suffering: The case of youth who head households in Kenya.  8th Annual Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference (Panel – Youth and Social Change: belonging, being, and becoming in East Africa). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 25, (Oral Presentation)

Laura M. Lee, 2015. Improving the sexual health of young women who head households in Nakuru County, Kenya: Suffering and social support, Connecting the Conversations: an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Social Dimensions of Health. University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, April 23 (Oral Presentation)

Laura M. Lee, Dorcas W. Karanja, 2014. Embodiment of suffering of youth-headed households in Kenya, Out of the Box Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, March 21 (Oral Presentation).

Laura M. Lee, Dorcas W. Karanja, Charity Wachira. Catherine Wangui, 2013. ‘Nimekula shida miaka mingi’ (I have eaten my problems for many years): Embodiment of suffering of youth-headed households – Social abandonment and support of youth affected by HIV, 17th International Conference on AIDS and STI’s in Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, December 7 – 11 (Oral Presentation).

Laura M. Lee, 2013. Engaging marginalized groups in policy development and community action : A community-based approach to sexual health of youth-headed households research in Kenya. Out of the Box, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program Conference, Vancouver, March 22, 2013 (Oral Presentation)

Laura M. Lee, 2012. Research to Action: Improving the Quality of Care and Access to Sexual Health and HIV Services Among Youth-Headed Households in Kenya. Advancing Excellence in Gender, Sex and Health Research, Institute of Gender and Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Montréal, Canada, October 29-31, 2012 (Oral Presentation).

Laura M. Lee, Dorcas W. Karanja, 2011. Socio-economic structures, young women’s behaviour and HIV: “I am not proud of it, I hate it but what else can I do?” 16th International Conference on AIDS and STI’s in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 4 – 8 (Poster Presentation).

Laura M. Lee, Michel Nsengiyumva, 2011. Strengthening communities affected by HIV in Rwanda. 16^th International Conference on AIDS and STI’s in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethipia, December 4 – 8 (Poster Presentation).

Laura M. Lee. 2010, Beth Stewart, Lara Rosenhoff, Erin Baines. Theatre Works: Young Women Challenging Narratives of Conflict in Rwanda and northern Uganda. Children and War: Past Present and Future, Salzburg, Austria, September 30 – October 2 (Presenter).

Laura M Lee. 2010. Youth facing structural violence: a resource to be tapped, Global Health and War. 8th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA, April 23-25 (Invited Presenter).

Laura M. Lee, Lara Rosenhoff, Beth Stewart. 2010. Theatre Works: Young Women Challenging Narratives of Conflict. Networking Justice: The Local and Global in Transition, Liu Institute for Global Issues. Vancouver, British Columbia. May 5 (Presenter).

Laura M. Ward. 2007. Psychosocial Health of Child-Headed Households in Rwanda, Canadian Conference on International Health, Global Change and Health: Who are the Vulnerable? Ottawa, Canada, November (Sponsored Speaker).

Laura M. Ward. 2006. Evaluating participatory, community-based sexual health interventions, Workshop report, Medical Research Council and QMUC, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Workshop Documentation).

Reports

Laura M. Lee, Philip Cook (IICRD) 2017. Sport and Protection for Forcibly Displaced Youth Research  For: Terre des homes (Tdh), The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Laura M. Lee. 2016. Establishing the contribution of faith communities in strengthening child protection. Channels of Hope Child Protection Global Impact Study: Senegal – Literature Review, Queen Margaret University with World Vision Senegal

Laura M. Lee. 2016. Literature review on the social impacts of resource development in British Columbia British Columbia, Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) Observatory on Population and Public Health

2013. Policy Brief – A Call for Youth Friendly Services in Kenya: Research and recommendations from youth-headed households and communities in Rift Valley Kenya. Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya, October.

2013. Policy Brief – A Call for Tailored Gender Based Violence policies in Kenya : Research and recommendations from Youth-headed Households and Communities in Rift Valley Kenya. Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya, October.

Laura M. Lee, Charity Wachira. 2013.  Research Summary: Sexual health of youth-headed households in the Rift Valley Kenya. Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya, October.

Laura M. Lee. 2010. Children of Hope Program Review, Rwanda, Association des Eglises Baptistes au Rwanda and The Sharing Way CBM.  Kigali, Rwanda, July.

Laura M. Lee. 2010. As Long As You Live You Will Survive: The Omot Massacre, Field Note XI, Justice and Reconciliation Project, Gulu District NGO Forum, February.

Laura M. Ward. 2009. Assessment of Children’s Programming in Bolivia: Report and Recommendations. JIREH (for Working Children) and CASA de la Amistad (for Prison Children), The Sharing Way CBM, Cochibamba, Bolivia, June.

Laura M. Ward. 2009. HIV/AIDS Project Assessment and Tuni Child Labour Rehabilitation School (Tuni and Payakarayopet India): Project Monitoring Report, Samatha Community Development, The Sharing Way CBM, Andhra Pradesh, India, March.

Laura M. Ward. 2009. Children of Hope (Orphans and Vulnerable Children Program) Rwanda: Program Outline and Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit, Association des Eglises Baptistes au Rwanda and The Sharing Way CBM. Kigali, Rwanda, May.

Laura M. Ward. 2007. Tuni Child Labour Rehabilitation School (Tuni and Payakarayopet India): Project Assessment Report, Samatha Community Development, The Sharing Way CBM, Andhra Pradesh, India, November.

Laura M. Ward and Faith Mutisya. 2006. Baseline Survey and Program Design Report on Orphans and Vulnerable Children and Children/Youth Headed Households in Rwanda, Association des Eglises Baptistes au Rwanda and The Sharing Way CBM. Kigali, Rwanda, December.