About my current research

My research program advances three areas of scholarship.  First, I explore the micro politics of community processes and social change, considering how information,  access, emotion, conflict, and deliberative processes enable or influence community capacity, engagement, and possibilities for building more just and inclusive practices and policies. 

Second, I use action research and a critical intersectional approach to disability access to deepen our understanding of disability and increase access and inclusion especially in health care education. My work aims to strengthen relational and disability justice informed understandings of disability.  

Finally, I advance understanding of critical qualitative research methods  and other processes of knowledge production through embodied, reflexive and relational research processes. 

Image by photographer Hannah Mittelstaet: Depicts some of her experience of time with post concussions syndrome

Recent Projects​

Logo for the AcTinSite project
AcTinSite is a multi-centred interdisciplinary research study about accessibility and accommodation in work-integrated learning. The partners on this project are two hospitals, two universities, and a college. Together they collaborating  to build knowledge and skills needed for practitioners and students to make work-integrated learning sites more accessible and accommodations easier to access. This project is funded by a 3 year SSHRC Insight Grant For more info go to https://actinsite.eecs.yorku.ca

ActOn arose from a York University Academic Innovation Fund project. This work used participatory video to create and share knowledge about access in placement. This work is connected to my co-authored publication titled “Thinking Rhizomatically and Becoming Successful with Disabled Students in the Accommodations Assemblage: Using Storytelling as a method.” To see the press book click here.