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Sakhi Sanghvi completed her winter 2024 Co-op Work Term with the Live Work Well Research Centre. This was her experience.   

Dr. Hussein Abdullah, professor in UofG’s School of Engineering, has spent the past twenty years developing technology to improve the lives of people with limb impairments.  

September 23rd marked the beginning of Truth and Reconciliation Week at the University of Guelph and across Canada. This week is a time to honour the lost children and survivors of residential schools, and recognize the ongoing effects of colonization on First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.   

We have published our Summer 2024 newsletter! 

The Live Work Well Research Centre is excited to share with you the projects our team has been working on, news, upcoming events, and more.

We publish and distribute our newsletter several times each year, with collaboration and input from diverse families, organizations, and communities.

On June 5, Deborah Stienstra of the Live Work Well Research Centre (LWWRC) joined fellow authors and editors to celebrate the virtual launch of the book "Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender." Editors Robel Afeworki Abay and Karen Soldatić (Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing) hosted the event on Zoom.  

Deborah Stienstra, Director of the Live Work Well Research Centre, is offering a new Fall 2024 course to explore The Politics of Disability. Drawing on research and experiences from Canada and the global South, the course will help to address the historic neglect of issues of and people with disabilities in politics and policy. It will also use an intersectional lens and a cross-disability/impairment approach to consider how various experiences of disability and ableism intersect with other experiences of oppression including gender, race, Indigenousness, class, age, and sexuality, among others.

Congratulations to Leah Levac and Deborah Stienstra on their chapter in a recently published book Counting Matters: Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada, edited by Christina Gabriel and L. Pauline Rankin. This book investigates how the rise in gender equality measurement contributes to, and falls short of, effective gender equality policy implementation. Leah and Deborah's chapter, with Petrina Beals and Jessica McCuaig, is called "Advancing Intersectional Considerations in Measuring Gender Equality: A Community Vitality Index in Labrador."

On June 12th, Dr. Deborah Stienstra will be presenting at the Canadian Political Science Association conference with Kathryn Reinders on their paper “Using a Feminist Intersectional Livelihoods Analysis to understand experiences of historically marginalized women and girls with disabilities in Canada.” This research is from the work of the LWWRC’s EDID-GHDI (Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development) partnership. 

On April 9, 2024, Dr. Deborah Stienstra attended the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) Speaker Series to present her research to IWH scientists and staff. This work relayed the experiences of women with disabilities to understand why it’s essential to move past focusing on jobs as the experience of work and health for women with disabilities and instead move towards a livelihoods approach.

April is World Autism Month, which is intended to promote connectedness with and inclusion of autistic people. It was previously known as "Autism Awareness Month," and some organizations still refer to it that way. However, autistic-led organizations and communities have long called for a shift toward "Autism Acceptance" or "Autism Appreciation" to reflect their understanding of autism as a lived experience, not an illness or condition.