People

I am curious about individual and collective interbeing that is affirming, equitable, non-exiling, and postpathological. 

To participate in this work, I draw upon my training, and ongoing practices of: literary and fine arts, pedagogy, transition support, and alternative dispute resolution.

I am a polydisciplinary PhD student in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta and a Trainee with both the Re-Creation Collective and the NSERC SMART-CREATE Program. I am in a kinship relationship with the Just Movements CreateSpace and a member of the Narrative Practice Research Network.

My work is generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Please visit my website for more information or a copy of my complete CV.

I am curious about the translation spaces between artistic creative practices and healthcare as a way to create room to breathe in containment.

I am a PhD student in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta. I draw on my artistic practice in printmaking as a way to create visual translations, expressions, and conversations from past and ongoing experiences in academic institutional spaces, as well as clinical healthcare learning spaces.  

I care about materials and form, sustainability and access.

Parts of my work are generously supported by the Edmonton Arts Council.

Lindsay (they/she) ​is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation at the University of Alberta. They work to craft Mad-, fat-, disability-, queer- and trans-affirming trauma-informed movement and performance communities. They do this by weaving life experience and professional practice with research-creation methodologies. Their passions include teaching, choreographing, and performing disability-centered dance, Mad performance art, and crip video art. They are the Programming Director of Solidance Inclusive Recreation Society, a founder and former artistic director of CRIPSiE, and a certified occupational therapist with over 20 years of specialized disability and integrated dance training. 

Danielle Peers (they/them) is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Disability and Movement Cultures, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. Peers studies how movement cultures (including art, recreation, and sport) can be used to transmit and transform a community’s values, politics, and (in)equities. Mobilizing embodied disability justice approaches, Peers prioritizes deep, intersectional collaborations in order to co-create knowledges and practices that reduce harm and create more accessible, affirming, and transformative movement cultures. Danielle’s work draws from their experiences as a Paralympic athlete, coach, dancer, and filmmaker.

Tim Barlott (he/him) is an occupational therapist, interdisciplinary sociologist, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Alberta. Drawing from social theory and community-based approaches, his work pursues theory, practices, and collective processes that can be liberating for psychiatrized and other structurally marginalized people. He has worked as a community practitioner (occupational therapist, addictions counsellor, and youth worker), educator, and participatory researcher in Canada, Australia, and internationally. Tim currently lives and works on Treaty 6 territory, also the homeland of the Métis, in Edmonton, Canada.