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Kaitlyn and Kathryn are the authors of the chapter “Complex Erasures: Re/Production of Disability under Settler Colonialism,” which appeared in Canadian Settler Colonialism: Reliving the Past, Opening New Paths upon its publication in Fall of 2024. We conducted a written interview with them to understand their writing process and what they take away from this experience.  

On September 26, 2025, from 10:30AM-12:00PM ET, the Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development/Genre, handicap et développement inclusif (EDID-GHDI) partnership and Finding Their Place: The Contributions of Women with Disabilities to Peacebuilding will be co-hosting a virtual panel.

Three composite stories were created using data from the Reimagining Livelihoods project and the Disability and Livelihoods in Canada partnership. This blog describes what composite stories are and how we developed these three stories. 

On August 14, 2025, representatives of the Federal Government—Rechie Valdez and Chi Nguyen—announced that they will be giving $656,053 in funding to Realize.  

Jordyne Craig worked as a Co-op Student with the Live Work Well Research Centre (LWWRC) in Winter 2025 and continued as a part-time student in Summer 2025. This is her experience. 

The Live Work Well Research Centre is excited to announce that the Reimagining Livelihoods multimedia platform is now live, with each of our composite stories from the project published on the website! 

The video recording has now been released for the LWWRC’s virtual panel on May 12, 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 Part 2” was the third session in a series titled “Countering Policy Exclusions.”

The Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) is a university-wide research centre at the University of Guelph. This October 22–23, they will be hosting the CIRCLE Graduate South Asia Conference 2025. This virtual event invites paper and panel proposals from doctoral researchers in health, natural sciences and engineering, and social sciences and humanities.  

Congratulations to Kaitlyn Hunter, a PhD student at the University of Waterloo and a former LWWRC GRA, on receiving a Vanier Graduate Scholarship!  

Working under the supervision of Dr. Holly Campeau in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies, Kaitlyn’s research focuses on the impact of high-profile American police violence in other geographic contexts. By looking at case studies such as the murder of George Floyd, Kaitlyn will investigate how touchstone cases of racialized police violence in America shape perceptions of and engagement with the public in Canada.  

July is Disability Pride Month, a time to celebrate the identities, cultures, and contributions of our community members with disabilities. It is also a time to challenge the stereotypes, barriers, and ableism that prevent disabled people from achieving their goals. This month, we reached out to Kathryn to share her experiences as a disabled student-researcher working on disability research.