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Name: Barbara Gibson

Barbara Gibson

Title: Scientist

Theme: Participation and Inclusion

Education:
Ph.D., Collaborative Program in Bioethics, Collaborative Program in Health Care Technology and Place, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto 
M.Sc., Collaborative Program in Bioethics, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto
Bachelor of Medical Rehabilitation (Physical Therapy), University of Manitoba

University Position:
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto

Research Interests:
Social and ethical dimensions of disability and rehabilitation with children, youth and young adults. Critical approaches to qualitative research. Critical disability ethics.

Current Funding:
Title: Becoming Men: Advancing methods and frameworks for understanding the intersection of gender and disability for disabled young men
Role: Principal Investigator (2010-2011 $78,915) 
Agency: CIHR Catalyst Grant: Methods and Measures for Gender, Sex and Health

Recent Funding:
Title: WALK: Why Ambulation Learning for Kids? 
Role: Principal Investigator 
Agency: Social Science and Humanities research Council (SSHRC) Research Development Initiatives (2008-2009, $35,351.00)
Title: There’s no place like home: What constitutes an “adequate” home environment for younger disabled adults?
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Agency: CIHR Catalyst Grant: Ethics (2008-2010, $92,144)

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications:
BE Gibson, E Stasiulis, S Gutfreund, M McDonald, L Dade (2011), Assessment of Children’s Capacity to Consent for Research: A Descriptive Qualitative Study of Researchers’ Practices, Journal of Medical Ethics. 37, pp. 504-507.

A Daudji., S Eby T Foo, F Ladak, C Sinclair, MD. Landry, K Moody, BE Gibson (SRA) (2011) Perceptions of Disability Among South Asian Immigrant Mothers of Children with Disabilities in Canada: Implications for Rehabilitation Service Delivery. Disability & Rehabilitation. 33(6), pp 511-521.

Nicholls, DA, Gibson BE (2010) The Body and Physiotherapy. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 26(8) 497-509.

Gibson, BE,  Nixon SA, Nicholls DA, (2010)  Critical Reflections on the Physiotherapy Profession in Canada Physiotherapy Canada 62(2): 98-103(Guest Editorial)

Gibson B.E., Darrah J., Cameron D., Hashemi G., Kingsnorth S., Lepage C., Martini R.,  Mandich A., Menna-Dack D. (2009)  Revisiting Therapy Assumptions in Children’s Rehabilitation: Clinical and Research Implications. Disability and Rehabilitation. Volume 31 Issue 17, 1446

Gibson B.E., Brooks, D., Dematteo, D., King A. (2009) Consumer-directed personal assistance and ‘care’: perspectives of workers and ventilator-users, Disability and Society, 24 (3).

Gibson BE, Zitzelsberger H, McKeever P. (2009)“Futureless” persons: Shifting life expectancies and the vicissitudes of progressive illness,Sociology of Health and Illness, 31 (4). 

Gibson B.E., Young N.L., Upshur, R.E.G, McKeever, P. (2007) Men on the margin: A Bourdieusian examination of living into adulthood with muscular dystrophy, Social Science and Medicine. 65: 505–517

Gibson B.E., Upshur, R.E.G, Young N.L., McKeever, P. (2007) Disability, technology and place: social and ethical implications of long-term dependency on medical devices, Ethics, Place & Environment. 10(1): 7-28.

Gibson B.E. (2006) Disability, connectivity and transgressing the autonomous body. Journal of Medical Humanities. 27:187–196

Contact Information:
Bloorview Research Institute,
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
150 Kilgour Road
Toronto, Ontario M4G 1R8

Tel: 416-425-6220, extension 3324

Department of Physical Therapy
University of Toronto
160-500 University Ave
Toronto, ON M5G 1V7
TEL: 416-978-1819

barbara.gibson at utoronto dot ca* (See note below)

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