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We are excited to share the projects our team have been working on, news, upcoming events and more with you through our newsletters.
We publish and distribute our newsletter four times each year, with collaboration and input from diverse families, organizations, and communities.
The Signs Journal is calling for transdisciplinary and transnational essays that address substantive feminist questions, debates, and controversies.
This special issue invites reassessments across disciplines, broadly questioning and complicating feminist histories, debates, and politics of care and caring. Submissions exploring cultural work on representations of care and caring from the arts, media and popular culture, or literature or literary studies are also welcome.
The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2021.
We published our spring newsletter! Check it out by clicking here!
The Live Work Well Research Centre is focused around anticipating and responding to the changing needs of families, livelihoods, and living environments through research, teaching, and knowledge sharing. We are excited to share our work, news, student opportunities and upcoming events with you through our newsletters.
Webinar presented by the Live Work Well Research Centre. Join us Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EST)!
The Live Work Well Research Centre is launching a webinar series entitled “From the Margins: Communities Respond to COVID-19”, where we will elevate perspectives often excluded from dominant discussions of COVID-19. The panelists will discuss what are the specific challenges that their communities and organizations are facing due to COVID-19 and the social, political, and economic conditions underlying these challenges.
Webinar presented by the Live Work Well Research Centre. Join us Wednesday, June 17th, 2020 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM!
More Promise than Practice: Gender-Based Analysis+ Intersectionality and Impact Assessment extends our knowledge about promising practices in intersectional impact assessments by turning to international literature and examples. We are interested in how to better understand and respond to the experiences of Indigenous women and Two-Spirit persons, youth, and people with disabilities in resource development and extraction contexts.
Girls Without Barriers is a project led by the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada, with the objective of reporting what is known on the rights, needs, and experiences of diverse girls and young women with disabilities, and address the gaps in order to promote their full participation in girl-serving programs in Canada.
The Live Work Well Research Centre, along with many other people and organizations, are excited to announce our 7 year Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development (EDID) partnership. The project centres around the barriers that women and girls with disabilities face, who suggested by the United Nations are to be one of the most marginalized groups worldwide.
Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques, since 1975 the foremost peer-reviewed journal examining social and economic policy in Canada, invites submissions related to the COVID-19 pandemic for expedited publication.
Deadline for submission: June 15, 2020
More info: https://utpjournals.press/journals/cpp/cfp
This thread explores numerous issues related to the importance of diversity and inclusion in higher education, as well as challenges of growing these areas.
Some of the issues include
Read it: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1244989594187124740.html
Statistics Canada released Dynamics of Disability: Progressive, Recurrent or Fluctuating Limitations, a new report based on the Canadian Survey on Disability on December 3, 2019, International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The report challenges mainstream understandings of disability as stable and permanent by emphasizing how the lived experiences of people with disabilities illustrate complex dynamics of disability, including progressive, recurrent or fluctuating limitations.