{"id":3768,"date":"2020-06-03T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2023-08-12T23:15:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T04:15:19","slug":"sam-defends-her-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/sam-defends-her-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Defends her Dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\">For us June 3, 2020 will be remembered as the day that Sam defended her dissertation and emerged with her PhD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/onedrive.live.com\/embed?resid=97139356ea52d5ed%21119178&amp;authkey=%21AKI4kCUmX-NuHqU&amp;width=1080&amp;height=720\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\">It took nearly 5 years not including a 1 year break for Sam to reach this milestone.&nbsp; She began as a full time graduate student including teaching, researching and part time Social Work practise.&nbsp; She transitioned to a full time career in Social Work finishing her doctorate as a part time student.&nbsp; Sam felt that her work was sufficiently advanced by the end of the 2019 to take a leave of absence for 3 months; initially she felt this would bring her close to finishing; in fact, she managed to complete the entire dissertation with some time to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\">The current Covid crisis prevents us from celebrating this achievement with Sam in person, for this reason, Mumtaz and I were invited to attend her dissertation defense by Zoom on Wednesday 3\/June\/2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\">It is impossible to describe the pride and admiration we felt for Sam as we listened in on the gruelling 3 hour session.&nbsp; Her dissertation was passed without revision (which is quite rare); she was nominated for the York University dissertation prize. We were listening when she was addressed as Dr. Abel for the first time in her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For us June 3, 2020 will be remembered as the day that Sam defended her dissertation and emerged with her PhD. It took nearly 5 years not including a 1 year break for Sam to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,198,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-310","category-sam","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4163,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/4163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}