Joanna Rankin

Biography

Joanna is an Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Community Rehabilitation & Disability Studies (CRDS) at the University of Calgary. Her current work is focused on the development and piloting of a Radical Mental Health Doula model, social justice, EDI, and the systemic inequities and oppressions faced by disabled people.  She draws from her background in Critical Disability Studies, her frontline work in the mental health sector, her research in this field and her own experiences of disability. She has published in Disability Studies, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Psychiatry journals as well as peer reviewed, edited books.  Dr. Rankin’s career goals are to bridge theory and practice and to enhance the methodological and ethical considerations of grassroots approaches in which research participants are not studied using a top-down approach but are co-researchers in a collaborative process to produce critical self-reflection and lasting awareness.