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The LWWRC Summer ‘25 Reading List to Engage with Our Clusters

The Live Work Well Research Centre (LWWRC) is home to five research clusters exploring complex themes and the ways they influence work, family, and well-being in all their diverse forms: “All My Relations” Indigenous Ways of Knowing; Disabilities, Access, and Inclusion; Displacements, Emergence, and Change; Reimagining Care; and Sexual and Gender Diversity.  

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Video available for Countering Policy Exclusions: Centring accessibility to advance the right to housing panel

The video has now been released for the LWWRC’s virtual panel on April 10th, 2025, co-hosted with Dr. Leah Levac’s Canada Research Chair in Critical Community Engagement and Public Policy. The panel on “Centring accessibility to advance the right to housing” was the second session in a series titled “Countering Policy Exclusions.” The video for the third session, held on May 12, is also available.  

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Sexuality and Gender Studies at UofG: Fostering Pride in Academia

Adam Davies (they/them) is a professor in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph. They are also a co-lead of the Sexual and Gender Diversity cluster at the Live Work Well Research Centre. For Pride Month, we reached out to Adam to hear more about this program and the impact it has had on the 2SLGBTQIA+ community on campus.  

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Woven Stories: How Beadwork Reconnects Me to Indigenous History

Maegan Ellis (she/her) is a master's student in the University of Guelph Department of History, studying under Dr. Kim Anderson. She is researching the creation of Métis beadwork and the history of Métis women in Saskatchewan. As a part of Indigenous History Month, Maegan shares her experiences learning how to bead and how this activity connects her to Indigenous history.

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June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month  

Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month is an internationally recognized movement that is celebrated annually in June. The goal of this movement is to draw attention to the prevalence and effects of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia.  

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June 18 is Autistic Pride Day 

Autistic Pride Day is celebrated annually around the world on June 18. This day encourages autistic people to embrace their unique brains and to make connections with other autistic people! 

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Partner Spotlight: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW-ICREF) 

The Live Work Well Research Centre (LWWRC) is pleased to highlight one of its partners, the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women-Institut canadien de recherches sur les femmes (CRIAW-ICREF).   

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Video available for Countering Policy Exclusions: Canada, disability, and international commitments panel

The video has now been released for the LWWRC’s virtual panel on February 27, 2025, co-hosted with Dr. Leah Levac’s Canada Research Chair in Critical Community Engagement and Public Policy. The panel on “Canada, disability, and international commitments” was the first session in a series titled “Countering Policy Exclusions.” Videos for two other sessions, held on April 10 and May 12, will be available soon.

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Announcing Our 2023-24 Annual Report!

We are pleased to announce that the Live Work Well Research Centre's 2023–24 Annual Report is available on our website! The Report describes a productive and exciting year, with many activities and accomplishments. Read about the innovative work by our five Research Clusters, learn about our student engagement efforts and our knowledge mobilization activities, and get to know the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work through our Partner Spotlight. 

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SAVE THE DATE: June 10 Virtual GiiiA Network Dialogue

On June 10, 2025, from 1:00-1:50pm ET on Zoom, the Gender-Based Indigenous Intersectional Impact Assessment Network (GiiiA) will be hosting their third Virtual Network Dialogue.  

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