On Monday, October 18, from 12-1:30 PM, Dr. Amaya Perez-Brumer, Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, presented a talk titled, “Ethnography of data politics: Rethinking risk, value, and justice in HIV prevention science”. Abstract: This presentation describes the deployment of ethnographic methods to interrogate the data infrastructures underpinning queer […]
CQ Student Publishes Paper on Quilting as Arts-Based Method
“When I used words to narrate my experience of sleeplessness, something was missing. They failed to adequately articulate how I have come to accept sleeplessness as part of my being-in-the-world. I had trouble using words to narrate an experience that felt so visceral, embodied. The words in my narrative felt disembodied, sanitized. I sought something […]
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: CQ Critical Pedagogies Symposium
It’s back! The 3rd biannual CQ Critical Pedagogies Symposium on Teaching & Learning Critical Qualitative Health Methods will be held virtually on November 5 and 12, 2021 from 11 am – 2 pm EST. This year‘s theme is Metamorphosis and Praxis: Pandemic Learning Lessons. Over the last 18 months, our worlds have been transformed by a […]
CQ Fellow Feature: Dr. Naomi Thulien
In May 2021, CQ Fellow Dr. Naomi Thulien co-founded Breakwater Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing health care, rent subsidies, and education bursaries to young women who have experienced homelessness. Naomi practices clinically at the Breakwater Foundation clinic and Covenant House Toronto – Canada’s largest agency for young people with current and past experiences […]
New Paper on Qualitative Methodology
“My methodology and research design, rooted in a flat ontology, led me to include plants as participants alongside the human gardener. But how was I to account for plants and their agency? What might count as evidence of vegetal politics?” In a new article titled, Growing Methods: Developing a Methodology for Identifying Plant Agency and […]
Fall 2021 Course Timetable
The course timetable for CQ’s Fall 2021 shared curriculum is now available! Please refer to your departmental registrar for course enrolment and drop dates. Students interested in taking courses outside their home department can view enrolment instructions here. The full curriculum, including potential student pathways through the curriculum, can be viewed here.
