Mary Jean Hande
Mary Jean Hande (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trent University, where her community- engaged research focuses on aging, disability, immigration, precarious work, continuing care systems, and struggles for social transformation. She currently leads the SSHRC-funded Towards Just Care project with the Disability Justice Network of Ontario. She recently completed a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, which collaborated with Migrante Manitoba, the policy landscape and experiences of im/migrant home care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eugena Kwon
Dr. Eugena Kwon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Trent University. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology with a collaborative specialization in Migration and Ethnic Relations from Western University. Her research focuses on four interrelated areas: international migration (with an emphasis on the post-migration integration and settlement experiences of immigrants and international students); the sociology of work and occupations; gender and professions; and population health and well-being. Her research has been published in a range of scholarly journals, including Gender Issues, Sociological Inquiry, Sleep Health, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, among others.
Lynn Yu Ling Ng
Lynn Yu Ling Ng is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at York University, Canada. She has research expertise in global care labor migration, with an area focus on East Asia (Singapore and Taiwan). Her current research program, “Care for All is Care that Pulls Us Through”, constructs a transnational and relational framework for an anti-ageist care that prioritizes migrant care workers’ voices. She completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Victoria (Canada), an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a BA (Hons) in Geography at Durham University (United Kingdom).
Dr. Daniel Dickson
Dr. Daniel Dickson is an Assistant Professor in Social Policy at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. Drawing from his past experiences as a personal support worker and advocate for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Dr. Dickson’s research focuses on the potential of social policy to disrupt patterns of discrimination and barriers to inclusion. To this end, his work explores how social policies are interpreted, negotiated, and implemented by policy actors at multiple levels of governance within health and social services structures in Canada.
Laura M. Funk
A sociologist and social gerontologist living and working in Treaty 1 territory and homeland of the Red River Métis, Funk (she/her) seeks to enhance understandings of how older adults and paid and unpaid carers interpret experiences, preserve identities, and negotiate normative ideals. Much of her research addresses how these processes use and reinforce discourses surrounding age, care and responsibility, and interrogates the structures of care for older adults, including the pressing, often invisible impacts on paid and unpaid carers in the context of decades of health reform in Canada.
Ann MacLeod
Ann MacLeod is a nurse whose career started in pediatrics in hospitals and home care. Her practice then focused on public health promotion, community development and primary care research. She is an adjunct faculty member with the Trent Fleming School of Nursing. There she taught courses and clinical practice related to older adults, community health, and primary care. Her research focuses on qualitative community-based approaches to study the intersection between health professionals, the volunteer sector and family in promoting health of older adults and refugees. She was a member of numerous non-profit community health boards. She is committed to social justice and health equity.
Evan Wicklund
Evan Wicklund is a Senior Researcher at Eviance (formerly the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies) and a Vanier Graduate Scholar as a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Carleton University. His academic background is in Cultural Studies and Disability Studies and has a particular interest in ethics, environmental justice, critical theory, posthumanism, and intersectional thought. He has 15 years of experience working in the disability field in a variety of capacities, including both academic and community-based research, advocacy, post-secondary education, supported employment, and community living.
Dr. Sheila Novek
Dr. Sheila Novek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatric Nursing at Brandon University (Winnipeg Campus). Sheila’s program of research employs critical qualitative methods to explore the experiences of older adults, people living with dementia, family carers, and health care providers across community and long-term care settings.
Margaret Oldfield
Margaret Oldfield, PhD is a scholar with a career spanning five decades and personal experience of disability. She specializes in challenging stereotypes about people with dementia. Her expertise also includes how time works in a nursing home, alternatives to long-term care, euthanasia (MAiD) for dis-abled people, and advanced requests for euthanasia in case of dementia. Dr. Oldfield has over 100 publications and presentations. You can read her work on ResearchGate and contact her at margaret.oldfield@outlook.com.
Cynthia J. Cranford
Cynthia J. Cranford is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research analyzes inequalities of gender, labor and migration, and collective efforts to resist them. She is the author of Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances, published in 2020 by Cornell University’s ILR Press. Cranford is a public sociologist, with a commitment to connecting research to social justice and to building bridges across academia and advocacy. She currently Chairs the Partnership Committee of the Carework Network, an international and interdisciplinary organization of researchers, policymakers, and advocates.
Dr. Loree Erickson
Dr. Loree Erickson’s (she/her) activist, research, and teaching interests include disability justice, sexuality studies, abolition, porn studies, cultures of un/desirability, queercrip porn, and media. She currently teaches at U of T and OCAD. She’s an award-winning porn performer/maker. Along with other community organizing, she is a forerunner in theorizing and thriving through care collectives. She’s a white settler queer femmegimp, cat lady, lover of sun, social justice and sparkly things.
Christine Kelly
Christine (Chrissy) Kelly, PhD is a Professor in the College of Community and Global Health and a research affiliate at the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Dr. Kelly has expertise in home care services, care workforce planning, qualitative methods, disability studies, and aging. Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the World Health Organization, her research helped shape Canadian home care policy through government consultation, widespread publications, and invited participation in human rights cases.
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