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W26 Grad Course Offering at UofG – Transformational Change Methodologies Lab with Dr. Carla Rice 

November 27, 2025 (Updated November 27, 2025) // News

This Winter 2026 semester at the University of Guelph, Carla Rice — Canada Research Chair in Feminist Studies and Social Practice — will be running a new graduate level course: “Transformational Change Methodologies Lab.”  

Please view the flyer from Dr. Rice below for more information about what will be studied in this course, and how you can apply.  

This winter 2026 semester Dr. Carla Rice is offering a new course called “Transformational Change Methodologies Lab,” open to PhD and advanced MA/MSc students at the University of Guelph. In this course students will examine various interdisciplinary entanglements between creative accessible research methods and social justice (including but not limited to critical, community-oriented, feminist) research practices, exploring the challenges, possibilities, and tensions that define our academic fields and range of social practices. The course foregrounds five critical spheres in contemporary qualitative research methodologies and accessibility practices for transformational change: 1) decolonizing, Indigenous and anti oppression research; 2) Black feminist intersectional and after intersectionality perspectives; 3) post-human, post-qualitative and critical theory-informed inquiry; 4) critical ethnographies; and 5) arts-based /creative research. Along the lines of a “Master Class," the course will engage with students’ research interests in conjunction with readings, lectures, and creative and accessibility experiments Interdisciplinary in its approach, the course content works across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences to explore tensions that emerge at sites of human/ nonhuman/ social/ artful/ spatial/ temporal intersections as entanglements. Following from Kathleen Gallagher, students are encouraged to “engage in honest struggle with the knotty methodological dilemmas” (2008, 2) in justice-seeking research, including entanglements of theory and practice, of analysis and agency, of culture and nature, and of embodiment and difference. Students explore the role of place, space, and memory, of art and community making, of colonial legacies and Indigenous voices and perspectives, and of love and resistance. In addition to core readings and other research tools and materials, students build a reading list and artifacts file in-keeping with their areas of research and interest. Learners also gain experience with designing and carrying out a critical, arts based and /or accessibility-attuned and community-engaged research project in an on-line or in-person space. We aim to uncover how methodological approaches can be understood as malleable, processual, and mobile, as transformed by and transforming of each researcher and research project that engages and experiments with them. TO APPLY: We ask interested students to submit a brief (1-2 paragraph) statement of interest for why they would like to take the course. Interested candidates should indicate any previous experience and/or knowledge they have engaging with critical and qualitative research methodologies. Statements of interest are due no later than December 5th, 2025 should be submitted to the Administrative Assistant at the Re-Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice at revision@uoguelph.ca. SPACE IS LIMITED – This course will be in-person. If in-person learning is an access issue, please contact us ASAP.
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