St. Francis Xavier University's annual Student Research Night reached a new milestone this year, with a record number of poster presentations showcased on March 24 in Scholars Walk, Mulroney Hall.
A total of 130 posters were presented, reflecting the strength and diversity of student research from academic departments across campus. The event offered visitors a chance to connect directly with student researchers, ask questions, and explore projects spanning a wide range of disciplines.
Each year, Student Research Night, which gives students the opportunity to showcase their research or advanced studies undertaken as part of their upper-year classes, advanced majors, honours, or graduate programs, continues to break records for student participation.
"Student Research Night at StFX provides students with a great opportunity to showcase the hard work they have done and offers the campus community an engaging way to get involved with research," says Abby Jessome, a fourth year honours in applied forensic psychology student from Antigonish, NS, who presented her research, entitled "Risk of Intimate Partner Violence: Police Assessment Tools and Inclusion of Dynamic Factors."
"My research project is supervised by Dr. Margo Watt and Dr. Christopher Lively and is being conducted through partnership with the local RCMP. I am investigating a risk assessment tool that is used by police officers in intimate partner violence cases to assess the risk of the perpetrator reoffending," she says.
March 28, 2026
