Beverly Leipert
BA, BScN (Saskatchewan); MN (UBC); PhD (Alberta)
Associate Professor
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing
Office: Room 029 - Health Sciences Addition
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 86599
Research Interests
- Women's health and empowerment
- Rural women's health
- Aging and women's health
- Community health nursing
- Social determinants of women's health
- Health promotion
- Social justice with and for vulnerable populations
- Policy and health
- Qualitative research methodologies including the development and refinement of new methodologies such as photovoice (includes the collecting and consideration of photographs as research data and as empowerment)
Research Affiliations
- Canadian Association for Nursing Research
- The Mid Sweden International Network for Gender Studies [MING], MidSweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden
Teaching Areas
- N9663: Interpretive and Critical Research Methodologies
- N9639: Health and Health Care in Rural and Remote Canada
- HS9701: Photovoice Research: Concept, Methodology, and Method
Graduate Student Supervision
- Master's
- PhD
Students Currently Under Supervision
Supervisor
- Robyn Plunkett (PhD) - Understanding Women’s Health Promotion in Rural Canadian Churches: A Photovoice Phenomenology Study
Co-Supervisor
- Heather Helpard (PhD - Nursing) – Dalhousie University - Understanding how rural Nova Scotian women engage in physical activity actions and behaviors post MI: A constructivist grounded theory methodology using photovoice methods
Thesis Advisory Committee Member
- Hols, Marijke Yolanda (PhD)




