Past Events

Countering Policy Exclusions: Canada, disability, and international commitments Part 2 – May 12 2025

With the election of a new federal government, we have invited leaders in civil society organizations to discuss what will and should be key priorities for action around ensuring rights and justice of and with women and girls with disabilities. We will examine how the Global Disability Summit declaration to ensure 15% of development assistance funding to people with disabilities can be addressed in Canada.

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Countering Policy Exclusions: Centring accessibility to advance the right to housing – April 10 2025

his panel of civil society leaders and researchers will explore what is needed to ensure the right to housing for women and gender-diverse people with disabilities across the province. They will also highlight how women and gender-diverse people with disabilities are playing a leadership role in responding to housing failures.

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Countering Policy Exclusions: Canada, disability, and international commitments – February 27 2025

This panel of civil society leaders and researchers will identify key implementation gaps and their implications for people with disabilities. They will also illustrate how women, girls and gender-diverse people with disabilities provide leadership to counter these failures. 

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GIIA Network Mini Sessions – January 16-25 2024

This event is a rich opportunity for collaboration, discussion, and knowledge exchange within the GiiiA community. With a series of guest speakers, this event will dive deeper into applying Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) and Artificial Intelligence in Impact Assessment (IA).

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Storied Lives Discussion Sessions – November 22-29 2023

The Storied Lives project will be holding group listening sessions for their podcast series, Storied Lives: Shifting Perspectives on Poverty. Created through a joint research project by the Guelph and Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination and the University of Guelph’s Community Engaged Scholarship Institute and Live Work Well Research Centre, this project encourages members of the public to learn more about the causes of poverty by amplifying the voices of those experiencing poverty.

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The Queer Evangelist: A Discussion with Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo – November 7 2023

Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo will be at the University of Guelph to discuss themes from her memoir, The Queer Evangelist: A Socialist Clergy’s Radically Honest Tale. Hosted by the University of Guelph campus ministry and the Guelph Seminar, this is an amazing opportunity to hear someone at the forefront of pro-2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy and legislation implementation!

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Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy Forum – October 20 2023

The Storied Lives Project will be setting up a booth at the annual LISPOP (Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy) Forum event on October 20th! Dr. Leah Levac, co-leader of the Displacements, Emergence and Change cluster, will be there to give you an opportunity to listen to the podcasts or discuss the Storied Lives initiatives about poverty and housing.

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Reimagining Livelihoods Forum – August 23-24 2023

Reimagining Livelihoods is an outreach project that shares results from community-engaged research on different forms of livelihoods and how they shape the experiences of diverse people in Canada and around the world. The Reimagining Livelihoods project has two main components: a livelihoods forum and a multimedia platform.  

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Imagining a More Just University – November 15 2022

On November 15, 2022, the Live Work Well Research Centre hosted “Imagining a More Just University”, a panel event which explored how we could create more just academic spaces through reducing barriers to access and ensuring equity for all. Hosted by then Acting Director of Live Work Well, Dr. Leah Levac, the event was built around discussion of practices at the University of Guelph and academia at large, addressing overlapping and intersecting injustices structured by the pandemic, systemic racism and colonialism, (hetero)sexism, ableism and economic inequality.

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A Community Conversation: “Troubling” Care – February 4 2022

The idea of ‘troubling care’ has been conceptualized by feminist scholars such as Ann Bartos (2018) and Parvati Raghuram (2016), calling us to consider the complex ways in which care is practiced, experienced, and understood. Academics, community benefit organizations, artists, activists, caregivers, and a range of other actors are doing this work by complicating what care means and re-imagining how it is practiced.  ​This conversation featured a panel of practitioners and scholars who are engaged in the practice of “troubling care.” Panelists’ discussed their everyday experiences and understandings of care, the practices they use to “trouble care,” and their visions for more caring futures.

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