- Overview
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My research focuses on addressing disparities in mental health that stem from injustices in our society and in our healthcare systems. In particular, I use community-engaged approaches, working directly with people with lived experiences of mental health challenges and healthcare providers to develop practical strategies for enhancing healthcare delivery for people within equity-owed groups. I use a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches, with a consistent focus on building from lived experience to drive change.
- Publications
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Digital Artifacts of Self-Representation: A Critical Qualitative Analysis of Nursing Memes
Nursing Inquiry
Jaymelyn Hubert and Madelaine Beaumont and Vicky Bungay and Allie Slemon
DOI: 10.1111/nin.70021
04/2025Absences and Silences in Critical Discourse Analysis: Methodological Reflections
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Slemon, A.
DOI: 10.1177/16094069251321250
2025Social justice as nursing resistance: a foucauldian discourse analysis within emergency departments
Nursing Philosophy
Slemon, A. and Bungay, V. and Varcoe, C. and Blanchet Garneau, A.
DOI: 10.1111/nup.12508
2025A Mixed Method Study of Nursing Students' Experiences of Discrimination Within Their Programs
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Dhari, S. and Slemon, A. and Handlovsky, I.
DOI: 10.1111/jan.16772
2025From Subversion to Hard-Wiring Equity A Discourse Analysis of Nurses’ Equity-Promoting Practices in Emergency Departments
Advances in Nursing Science
Slemon, A. and Bungay, V. and Varcoe, C. and Garneau, A.B.
DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000517
2025Capturing Intersections of Discrimination Quantitative Analysis of Nursing Students’ Experiences
Advances in Nursing Science
Slemon, A. and Handlovsky, I. and Dhari, S.
DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000541
2025Defining and characterizing the role of the liaison in supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ people to navigate health-service settings: A scoping review protocol
JBI Evidence Synthesis
Slemon, A. and Handlovsky, I. and Hubert, J. and Zakher, B. and Mussell, J. and Crawford, J. and Gan, D. and Schmied, S.
DOI: 10.11124/JBIES-24-00261
2025Envisioning a safety paradigm in inpatient mental health settings: Moving beyond zero-risk approaches
SSM - Mental Health
Slemon, A. and Dhari, S.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2024.100315
2024Selecting Approaches for Discourse Analysis: Thoughts on Nursing Research
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Ong, S.H. and Beaumont, M. and Caine, V. and Slemon, A.
DOI: 10.1177/16094069241299658
2024Social justice in Canadian nursing professional documents: A Foucauldian discourse analysis
Nursing Inquiry
Slemon, A. and Wonsiak, T. and Delli Colli, A.-R. and Blanchet Garneau, A. and Varcoe, C. and Bungay, V.
DOI: 10.1111/nin.12653
2024Redressing discrimination in Canadian nursing programs: Student perspectives
Nurse Education in Practice
Handlovsky, I. and Slemon, A. and Dhari, S.
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2024.104134
2024‘There is no justice in nursing school’: A qualitative analysis of nursing students' experiences of discrimination shared on Reddit
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Slemon, A. and Dhari, S. and Christie, T. and Aubrey, G.
DOI: 10.1111/jan.16066
2024The Subaltern: Illuminating matters of representation and agency in mental health nursing through a postcolonial feminist lens
Nursing Inquiry
Dhari, S. and Slemon, A. and Jenkins, E.
DOI: 10.1111/nin.12661
2024CASE AND COMMENTARY: PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE When Should Inpatient Psychiatric Care Include Access to the Outdoors, Despite Elopement or Other Risks?
AMA Journal of Ethics
Slemon, A. and Dhari, S.
DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.212
2024Mental distress and virtual mental health resource use amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a cross-sectional study in Canada
Digital Health
Goodyear, T. and Richardson, C. and Aziz, B. and Slemon, A. and Gadermann, A. and Daly, Z. and McAuliffe, C. and Pumarino, J. and Thomson, K.C. and Jenkins, E.K.
DOI: 10.1177/20552076231173528
2023Gaps in health research related to sex work: an analysis of Canadian health research funding
Critical Public Health
Bungay, V. and Guta, A. and Varcoe, C. and Slemon, A. and Manning, E. and Comber, S. and Perri, M.
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2021.1987385
2023Analysis of the social consequences and value implications of the Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS): implications for measurement of discrimination in health research
Health Sociology Review
Slemon, A. and Susan Dahinten, V. and Stones, C. and Bungay, V. and Varcoe, C.
DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2021.1969980
2022The Ethics of Financial Incentivization for Health Research Participation Among Sex Workers in a Canadian Context
Qualitative Health Research
Bungay, V. and Guta, A. and Slemon, A. and Varcoe, C. and Comber, S.
DOI: 10.1177/10497323221089877
2022Emotional response patterns, mental health, and structural vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: a latent class analysis
BMC Public Health
Richardson, C. and Goodyear, T. and Slemon, A. and Gadermann, A. and Thomson, K.C. and Daly, Z. and McAuliffe, C. and Pumarino, J. and Jenkins, E.K.
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-14798-y
2022“In Touch With my Creative Side”: Supporting Self-Care Among Nursing Students Through Arts-Based Pedagogy
Quality Advancement in Nursing Education
O{'}flynn-Magee, K. and Slemon, A. and Mahy, J. and Jenkins, E.K.
DOI: 10.17483/2368-6669.1300
2022Widening mental health and substance use inequities among sexual and gender minority populations: Findings from a repeated cross-sectional monitoring survey during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
Psychiatry Research
Slemon, A. and Richardson, C. and Goodyear, T. and Salway, T. and Gadermann, A. and Oliffe, J.L. and Knight, R. and Dhari, S. and Jenkins, E.K.
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114327
2022Connectedness in the time of COVID-19: Reddit as a source of support for coping with suicidal thinking
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
McAuliffe, C. and Slemon, A. and Goodyear, T. and McGuinness, L. and Shaffer, E. and Jenkins, E.K.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100062
2022Exploring the conceptualization, operationalization, implementation, and measurement of outreach in community settings with hard-to-reach and hidden populations: A scoping review
Social Science and Medicine
Jiao, S. and Slemon, A. and Guta, A. and Bungay, V.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115232
2022Mental Health Inequities Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From Three Rounds of a Cross-Sectional Monitoring Survey of Canadian Adults
International Journal of Public Health
Jenkins, E.K. and Slemon, A. and Richardson, C. and Pumarino, J. and McAuliffe, C. and Thomson, K.C. and Goodyear, T. and Daly, Z. and McGuinness, L. and Gadermann, A.
DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604685
2022Reddit Users’ Experiences of Suicidal Thoughts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of r/Covid19_support Posts (Preprint)
Allie Slemon and Corey McAuliffe and Trevor Goodyear and Liza McGuinness and Elizabeth Shaffer and Emily Jenkins
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.28891
03/2021Reddit Users' Experiences of Suicidal Thoughts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of r/Covid19_support Posts
Frontiers in Public Health
Slemon, A. and McAuliffe, C. and Goodyear, T. and McGuinness, L. and Shaffer, E. and Jenkins, E.K.
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.693153
2021Media framing of emergency departments: a call to action for nurses and other health care providers
BMC Nursing
Thomas, K. and Browne, A.J. and Jiao, S. and Dooner, C. and Wright, P. and Slemon, A. and Diederich, J. and Wathen, C.N. and Bungay, V. and Wilson, E. and Varcoe, C.
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-021-00606-2
2021Examining the associations between food worry and mental health during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
Canadian Journal of Public Health
McAuliffe, C. and Daly, Z. and Black, J. and Pumarino, J. and Gadermann, A. and Slemon, A. and Thomson, K.C. and Richardson, C. and Jenkins, E.K.
DOI: 10.17269/s41997-021-00557-w
2021Exploring the operationalisation and implementation of outreach in community settings with hard-to-reach and hidden populations: Protocol for a scoping review
BMJ Open
Krabbe, J. and Jiao, S. and Guta, A. and Slemon, A. and Cameron, A.A. and Bungay, V.
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039451
2021Correlates of suicidal ideation related to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Repeated cross-sectional nationally representative Canadian data
SSM - Population Health
McAuliffe, C. and Pumarino, J. and Thomson, K.C. and Richardson, C. and Slemon, A. and Salway, T. and Jenkins, E.K.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100988
2021Associations between periods of COVID-19 quarantine and mental health in Canada
Psychiatry Research
Daly, Z. and Slemon, A. and Richardson, C.G. and Salway, T. and McAuliffe, C. and Gadermann, A.M. and Thomson, K.C. and Hirani, S. and Jenkins, E.K.
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113631
2021Increases in alcohol and cannabis use associated with deteriorating mental health among lgbtq2+ adults in the context of covid-19: A repeated cross-sectional study in canada, 2020–2021
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Goodyear, T. and Slemon, A. and Richardson, C. and Gadermann, A. and Salway, T. and Dhari, S. and Knight, R. and Jenkins, E.
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182212155
2021Enhancing conceptual clarity of self-care for nursing students: A scoping review
Nurse Education in Practice
Slemon, A. and Jenkins, E.K. and Bailey, E.
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103178
2021Bereaved mothers’ engagement in drug policy reform: A multisite qualitative analysis
International Journal of Drug Policy
Jenkins, E. and Slemon, A. and Morris, H. and Hyshka, E. and Schulz, P. and Haines-Saah, R.J.
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103011
2021Use of Asynchronous Virtual Mental Health Resources for COVID-19 Pandemic–Related Stress Among the General Population in Canada: Cross-Sectional Survey Study (Preprint)
Chris G Richardson and Allie Slemon and Anne Gadermann and Corey McAuliffe and Kimberly Thomson and Zachary Daly and Travis Salway and Leanne M Currie and Anita David and Emily Jenkins
DOI: 10.2196/preprints.24868
10/2020Use of asynchronous virtual mental health resources for COVID-19 pandemic–related stress among the general population in Canada: Cross-sectional survey study
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Richardson, C.G. and Slemon, A. and Gadermann, A. and McAuliffe, C. and Thomson, K. and Daly, Z. and Salway, T. and Currie, L.M. and David, A. and Jenkins, E.
DOI: 10.2196/24868
2020Undergraduate students' perspectives on pursuing a career in mental health nursing following practicum experience
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Slemon, A. and Jenkins, E. and Bungay, V. and Brown, H.
DOI: 10.1111/jocn.15074
2020‘Parents are the best prevention’? Troubling assumptions in cannabis policy and prevention discourses in the context of legalization in Canada
International Journal of Drug Policy
Haines-Saah, R.J. and Mitchell, S. and Slemon, A. and Jenkins, E.K.
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.06.008
2019“You can’t chain a dog to a porch”: a multisite qualitative analysis of youth narratives of parental approaches to substance use
Harm Reduction Journal
Slemon, A. and Jenkins, E.K. and Haines-Saah, R.J. and Daly, Z. and Jiao, S.
DOI: 10.1186/s12954-019-0297-3
2019Exploring the implications of a self-care assignment to foster undergraduate nursing student mental health: Findings from a survey research study
Nurse Education Today
Jenkins, E.K. and Slemon, A. and O{'}Flynn-Magee, K. and Mahy, J.
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2019.06.009
2019A Guide to Multisite Qualitative Analysis
Qualitative Health Research
Jenkins, E.K. and Slemon, A. and Haines-Saah, R.J. and Oliffe, J.
DOI: 10.1177/1049732318786703
2018Embracing the wild profusion: A Foucauldian analysis of the impact of healthcare standardization on nursing knowledge and practice
Nursing Philosophy
Slemon, A.
DOI: 10.1111/nup.12215
2018Power and resistance: Nursing students' experiences in mental health practicums
Advances in Nursing Science
Slemon, A. and Bungay, V. and Jenkins, E. and Brown, H.
DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000221
2018Safety in psychiatric inpatient care: The impact of risk management culture on mental health nursing practice
Nursing Inquiry
Slemon, A. and Jenkins, E. and Bungay, V.
DOI: 10.1111/nin.12199
2017Developing harm reduction in the context of youth substance use: Insights from a multi-site qualitative analysis of young people's harm minimization strategies
Harm Reduction Journal
Jenkins, E.K. and Slemon, A. and Haines-Saah, R.J.
DOI: 10.1186/s12954-017-0180-z
2017 - Research
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Preventing Seclusion within Youth Mental Health Inpatient Settings
This project is conducted in partnership with the Island Health Mental Health Program and Mental Health Recovery Partners - South Island, a community-based peer-led organization supporting people experiencing mental health challenges and hospitalization. In the context of a novel Young Adult Mental Health Unit within Island Health, this research aims to develop strategies and policy guidance toward the aim of preventing seclusion use among young adults. This community-engaged research builds on the insights of young adults who have experienced seclusion, as well as healthcare providers who hold immense expertise in managing seclusion safely and equitably. Ultimately, this project will bring youth and healthcare provider perspectives together in a Collaborative Development Session towards driving changes in policy, best practices, and healthcare provider education related to seclusion use.Bridging the “Missing Middle”: A Qualitative Study to Improve Mental Health Care for Transition-Aged Youth
This project examines the phenomenon of the “Missing Middle”: systems-level gap in service delivery, where services are provided to support those at either extreme of service needs, jeopardizing access for those who fall in-between. This Missing Middle gap disproportionately impacts youth who experience mental health challenges, who are often positioned in the mental healthcare system as too well for hospital and specialist services, yet too unwell for primary care alone. To respond to gaps in care experienced by transition-aged youth in the missing middle, PHSA has developed and implemented a Missing Middle Program, including a novel Transition and Linking to Care (TLC) Team. To examine perspectives on the Missing Middle among youth, and explore the impacts of the Missing Middle Program, this project engages young people, family members, and mental healthcare providers in qualitative interviews and focus groups. In particular, the youth arm of the study focuses on two specific streams, representing priority equity-owed groups: racialized youth, and youth who use substances. Insights from this study will guide the further development of the Missing Middle program, and drive systems-level change to more meaningfully and effectively address youth who experience the Missing Middle in their journey of accessing mental healthcare in BC.GrantsPrimary Investigator. Embedding research knowledge to prevent seclusion in a young adult inpatient mental health setting in British Columbia. Funding Source: Michael Smith Health Research BC REACH Grant
Team Lead. Toward seclusion prevention in young adult inpatient mental health: Learning from youths’ lived experiences to enhance equity. Funding Source: Island Health Equity Grant
Congratulations CIHR Fall 2024 Project Grant recipients
Congratulations to the investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2024 Project Grant competition!
