This diverse panel of experts discussed how women, girls, and gender-diverse people with disabilities are providing leadership in policy and politics, and what helps and hinders their leadership.
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With the election of a new federal government, we 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. In this panel, we examined how the Global Disability Summit declaration to ensure 15% of development assistance funding to people with disabilities can be addressed in Canada.
Continue Reading Countering Policy Exclusions: Canada, disability, and international commitments Part 2 – May 12 2025
This panel of civil society leaders and researchers explored what is needed to ensure the right to housing for women and gender-diverse people with disabilities across the province. They also highlighted how women and gender-diverse people with disabilities are playing a leadership role in responding to housing failures.
Continue Reading Countering Policy Exclusions: Centring accessibility to advance the right to housing – April 10 2025
This panel of civil society leaders and researchers identified key implementation gaps and their implications for people with disabilities. In their discussion, panelists also illustrated how women, girls and gender-diverse people with disabilities provide leadership to counter these failures.
Continue Reading Countering Policy Exclusions: Canada, disability, and international commitments – February 27 2025
This mini session series offered various opportunities for collaboration, discussion, and knowledge exchange within the GiiiA community. With a series of guest speakers, this event took a deeper dive into applying Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) and Artificial Intelligence in Impact Assessment (IA).
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For this event, the Storied Lived project team held various group listening sessions for their podcast series, Storied Lives: Shifting Perspectives on Poverty. This project, and subsequent podcast were started by 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. The goal of this project is to encourage members of the public to learn more about the causes of poverty by amplifying the voices of those experiencing poverty.
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This event welcomed Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo to the University of Guelph to discuss themes from her memoir, 'The Queer Evangelist: A Socialist Clergy’s Radically Honest Tale.' Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo was hosted by the University of Guelph campus ministry and the Guelph Seminar to provide students with an hear a lecture from someone at the forefront of pro-2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy and legislation implementation!
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The Storied Lives Project team attended the annual Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP) Forum event on October 20th, including Dr. Leah Levac, co-lead of the Displacements, Emergence and Change cluster. The project team attended this event to give Centre members and the surrounding community an opportunity to listen to Storied Lives podcast, and to discuss initiatives about poverty and housing.
Continue Reading Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy Forum – October 20 2023Reimagining 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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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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