The Disability Working Group offers a collaborative platform for disability projects, work and research understood very broadly. For instance, research and projects may be focused on exposing and addressing social inequities and obstacles that persons with disability face, on examining the history and theory of disability or ableism, and on exploring emancipatory endeavours, from policy-making to artistic proposals and technological innovations.
Our goals are to:
- Foster a community of researchers, students, members of the disability community, allies and other stakeholders interested in disability studies, culture and policy.
- Provide opportunities to disability scholars and students, activists and practitioners from different backgrounds to present their research, work and projects in the area of disability studies and reform, broadly understood.
- Provide a platform for collaboration across disciplines and universities, and facilitate grant application, and community and policy involvement in relation to disability, broadly understood.
- Connect prospective students with disability researchers in Montreal and facilitate inter-departmental supervision.
- Keep members informed of other academic events related to disability in other research clusters at 鶹AV or elsewhere in Montreal or online, through our mailing list.
How to Join or Participate
Feel free to contact the lead convenor, Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry, at jonas-sebastien.beaudry [at] mcgill.ca:
- if you want to be added to the mailing list, or if you have questions;
- if you are interested in presenting your disability research or project to the group, either to disseminate your findings, or propose collaborative endeavours;
- if you research, teach or practice in the area of disability and would like to become an affiliated member of the Group or advertise your courses below, or if you belong to a yet unrepresented 鶹AV school or department amongst our co-convenors and would like be become an actively participating co-convenor.
Convenors
In order to expand its reach throughout 鶹AV, the Group is co-convened by representatives of different faculties:
Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry (lead convenor) — Faculty of Law & Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy, 鶹AV
Stefanie Blain-Moraes (co-convenor) – School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, 鶹AV
David Covo (co-convenor) – Faculty of Engineering, 鶹AV
John Mac Master (co-convenor) – Schulich School of Music, 鶹AV
Kevin McDonough (co-convenor) — Department of Integrated Studies in Education & Faculty of Education, 鶹AV
Jonathan Sterne (co-convenor) — Department of Art History and Communication Studies, 鶹AV
Faculty Members Affiliated to the Disability Working Group
Philippe Archambault – School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, 鶹AV
Agnès Berthelot-Raffard — School of Health Policy and Management, York University
Marie-Christine Beshay — School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, 鶹AV
Emilie Dionne — Scientist/Researcher, Mary’s Research Centre
Tara Flanagan — Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, 鶹AV
Matthew Hunt — School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, 鶹AV
Sébastien Jodoin – Faculty of Law, 鶹AV
Patrick McDonagh — Department of English, Concordia University
Karyn Moffatt — School of Information Studies, 鶹AV
Nathalie Myara — Faculty of Education, University of Montreal
Elizabeth Patitsas — Department of Integrated Studies in Education & School of Computer Science, 鶹AV
Shawn Wilkinson — Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University
David Wright – Department of History and Classical Studies & Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy, 鶹AV
Community Partners
Courses Related to Disability Studies Offered at 鶹AV*
BMDE 525: Design of Assistive Technology: Principles and Praxis
COMS 411: Disability, Technology, Communication
ENGL 318: Theory of English Studies 2 – Disability in Literature
EDEC 575: Critical Disability Studies for Education
FMED 511: Introduction to Art in Healthcare: Making Art Accessible
GSFS 303: Gender and Disability
LAWG 533: Disability Law
LAWG 534: Law & Body
PUB2 500: Law and Psychiatry
OCC1 625: Functional Environments
POTH 625: Design of Assistive Technology: Principles
RELG 571: Ethics, Medicine and Religion
*If you would like your course to be added to this list, please contact the group convenor.
Disability Symposium Series
In addition to co-hosting a variety of yearly events and talks, the Disability Working Group holds an annual symposium.
- January 29th, 2021 - Disability, Justice and Care Symposium from 12:30-2:30.
- March 18th, 2022 - Disability & Well-Being: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from 12:30-2:30.