Publications

  • Greene, S., Vaccarro, M., Bernier, A., Griffith, G., Ion, A., Maurice, R., Gabel, C., & Blake, M. (2023). “Digging in”: Stigma and surveillance in the lives of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers who use cannabis. Critical Public Health. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2023.2262739

  • Davies, A., Ormel, I., Bernier, A., Harris, E., Mumba, B., Gobat, N., Schwartz, L. & Cheah, P.K. (2023). A rapid review of community engagement and informed consent processes for adaptive platform trials and alternative design trials for public health emergencies. Wellcome Open Research. https://dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19318.1

  • Winstanley, S. & Bernier, A. (2022). “Who were you?”: Temporality and intergenerational empathy in community girlhood studies. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 15(3), 35-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2022.150305

  • Bernier, A., & Winstanley, S. (2021). “Speak with girls, not for them:” Supporting girls’ action against rape culture. Girlhood Studies 14(1), 19-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2021.140104

Journal Articles

  • Bernier, A. (Submitted). Social work with girls: Forging a new path. In M. Zaborskis (Ed.). Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood. Routledge.

  • Bernier, A., & Winstanley, S. (forthcoming in 2024). “Speak with girls, not for them:” Supporting girls’ action against rape culture. In C. Vanner (Ed.) Girls act out: Activism networks by, with, and for girls and young women. Berghan Books.

Book Chapters

  • Bernier, A. (2023, May 22). Girls are in crisis - and their mental health needs to be taken seriously. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/girls-are-in-crisis-and-their-mental-health-needs-to-be-taken-seriously-205177

  • Gobat, N., Esser, S., Lydon, P., Riveros Balta, X., Henao Restrepo, A.M., Schwartz, L., Davies, A., Bernier, A., Buhrmann, A., Canas, E., Cheah, P.K., Howard, J., Lees, S., Marshall, J., Moluneaux, S., Mumba, N., Murthy, S., Nouvet, E., Salaam, Z. & Thome, B. (2021, August). Good Participatory Practice (GPP) with trial populations for the Solidarity Trial Vaccines (STV): An international randomised trial of candidate vaccines against COVID-19. World Health Organization, Geneva: CH. https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/blue-print/stv-gpp-handbook-v1.1-eng.pdf?sfvrsn=a992db52_7&download=true

  • Bernier, A., Blake, M., Fudge Schormans, A., Hunt, R., Hutton, S., Infusino, P., McCormick, D. & Sattaur, F. (2021). COVID-19 at the intersections of “social work,” “woman” and “disability:” Kitchen tables, advocacy and activism. Social Dialogues 24, p. 8. https://socialdialogue.online/sd24/08_article.html

  • Bernier, A. (2019). Girls Lead: A Toolkit for Supporting Girls’ Leadership and Activism. Women’s Centre of Calgary. Calgary: AB. Retrieved from https://www.womenscentrecalgary.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Girls-Lead-YYC-1.pdf

Publications for a Broader Audience

My finalist submission for McMaster University’s 2022 GradFlix Competition.

Bernier, A. (2023, May 29). Centering the tween girl citizen: Challenging constructed innocence and frivolity to honour tween girls’ activism. Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes Annual Conference. Annual Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. York University, Toronto.

Bernier, A. (2023, March 11). Tween girls’ activism: Challenging notions of the frivolous, carefree tween and honoring the tween girl citizen. Panel: Glocal Perspectives on Youth Activism, Citizenship and Cultural Identity. Intersections | Cross-Sections Graduate Student Conference 2023: “Becoming You(th),” Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto.

Bernier, A. (2019, April). Standing behind a girl-volution: Supporting girl activists to make meaningful social change. Alberta College of Social Workers Conference, Calgary, AB. *workshop accepted by not presented

Conference Presentations