Assistant Professor
School of Occupational Therapy
Western University
Room 2531, Elborn College
Phone: 519-661-2111 x 88958
Email: gteachma@uwo.ca
Biosketch
Gail Teachman, OT Reg. (Ont.) is an Assistant Professor at the School of Occupational Therapy, Western University. Her program of research draws from social theory, critical disability studies, occupational science and childhood ethics to advance interdisciplinary research concerning childhood, rehabilitation, ethics and disability. She has an interest in developing innovative, theoretically informed methodological approaches for qualitative research with disabled children and youth, including those with communication impairments.
Dr. Teachman’s doctoral work, which examined the effects of dominant social inclusion discourses on the lives of disabled youth who have little or no speech, was recognized by a 2016 Governor General’s Gold Medal, one of Canada’s highest awards, and received Honorable Mention in the 2016-2017 competition for the Joan Eakin Award for Methodological Excellence in a Qualitative Doctoral Dissertation.
Research Interests
- Critical social theory applied to children’s health, illness, and disability
- Interdisciplinary Childhood Ethics
- Childhood disability and rehabilitation
- Qualitative methodologies with children and youth
CQ Teaching
Winter 2017: “Theory and Method for Qualitative Researchers: An Introduction” (JRP1000)
Co-Instructor, Show and Tell: Articulating Your Methods to Reveal the Quality of your Research. Two-day CQ workshop in association with the Critical Health Research Group, Congress on Critical Theory and Health Research, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Mallorjca, Spain. (2015, June 8 – 9).
Co-Instructor (with Brenda Gladstone), Doing Qualitative Research with Children and Youth, full-day workshop, part of a CQ series in partnership with the Wilson Centre, University of Toronto. (2014, June)
Selected Publications & Media
Teachman, G. (2023) Beyond Inclusion: Collective social spaces of recognition, safety and communion. Invited paper in a Special Issue of Brazilian Journal of Occupational Therapy/Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional, 31(spe), e3538. https://doi.org/10.1590/2526-8910.ctoAO271335382
Teachman, G., & Gladstone, B. (2020). Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Issue: Constructions of ‘children’s voices’ in qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1609406920980654
Facca, D, Gladstone, B., & Teachman G. (2020). Working the Limits of ‘Giving Voice” to Children: A Critical Conceptual Review, International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1609406920933391
Teachman, G., McDonough, P., Macarthur, C. and Gibson, B.E. (2020), Interrogating inclusion with youths who use augmentative and alternative communication. Sociology of Health and Illness, 42(5), 1108-1122. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13087
Teachman, G., & Gibson, B. E. (2018). Integrating visual methods with dialogical interviews in research with youth who use augmentative and alternative communication. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 17(1). http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1609406917750945
Teachman, G., McDonough, P., Macarthur, C., & Gibson, B. E. (2018). A critical dialogical methodology for conducting research with disabled youth who use augmentative and alternative communication. Qualitative Inquiry, 24(1), 35-44.
Teachman, G. (2018, March 28). Voice Lessons: Dis/Articulating ‘voice’ and the value of unpacking concepts in qualitative inquiry, Invited speaker at Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research Methodological Seminar Series, University of Toronto, Canada. https://youtu.be/3EZnh3nju6U
Teachman, G., & Gibson, B. E. (2013). Children and youth with disabilities: Innovative methods for single qualitative interviews. Qualitative Health Research, 23(2), 264-274.
