Debbie Laliberte Rudman, PhD
Distinguished University Professor
Room 2537, Elborn College
519 661-2111 x88965
drudman@uwo.ca
Education
- PhD (Toronto)
- MSc (Western)
- BScOT (Toronto)
Academic Appointments
- Associate Director, School of Occupational Therapy
Supervising Graduate Students
Research Interests
- Contemporary structuring and negotiation of retirement and later life work
- Critical social theory and occupational science
- Critical gerontology
- Shaping of occupation in later life, and interconnections between occupation, identity, participation, and well-being
- Negotiation of chronic disability (e.g. low vision) and other transitions (e.g. migration) in later life
- Disparities in occupational possibilities created through socio-political conditions and forces (e.g. post-secondary education and First Nations youth; employment, unemployment and ‘at risk’ collectives)
- Social transformation through occupation
Additional Information
- McGrath, C., & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2019). Using participant observation to enable critical understandings of disability in later life: An illustration conducted with older adults with low vision. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1-11.
- McGrath, C., & Corrado, AM. (2019). Psychological adaptation strategies to support engagement: A metasynthesis of vision loss research. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 86(5), 377-387.
- Qualitative methodologies
- Scholarly practice in Occupational Therapy
- Occupational Science
- Critical social theory
- Occupational inequities
- Muriel Driver Lectureship, Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, October 2020
- Keynote lecture, Danish Occupational Therapy Educators, August 2019
- Keynote lecture, Japanese Society for the Study of Occupation, Dec. 2018
- Keynote lecture, The OTther Symposium, South Africa, May 2018
- Keynote lecture, Occupational Science Europe, Sept. 2017
- Keynote lecture, University of Sao Paulo, 11th Occupational Therapy Symposium, May 2017
- Caroline Thompson Memorial Lecture, University of Madison-Wisconsin, Sept. 2016
- Nicole Ebacher Memorial Lecture, Université Laval, May 2016
- Member, Executive Committee, Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion, 2019-present
- Item generation co-ordinator. National Occupational Therapy Certification Examination Committee, September, 2014 – September, 2020
- Associate Editor, Journal of Occupational Science, 2017-present
- Member, International Editorial Board, Brazilian Journal of Occupational Therapy, November, 2017 – present
- Organizing group member, International Social Transformation through Occupation Network, 2016-present
