Joanna Rankin

Biography

Dr. Rankin 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 front-line work in the mental health sector, her research in this field and her own experiences of disability. 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.