PhotoBeverly 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

bleipert@uwo.ca


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

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)
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