Debbie Rudman, PhD
Education
- PhD (Toronto)
- MSc (Western)
- BScOT (Toronto)
Academic Appointments
- Adjunct appointments
- University of North Carolina
- University Cape Town, South Africa
- Dalhousie University
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; work and migrants)
Research Affiliations
- Critical Studies in Occupational Science Laboratory
- Affiliate member appointment, Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, Western University
- Associate member appointment, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto
- Associate Scientist, Lawson Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care, London, Ontario
Teaching Areas
- Qualitative Methodologies
- Scholarly Practice in Occupational Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
Awards
- University of Sao Paulo, Rebeirao Preto Medical School, Keynote for the11th Occupational Therapy Symposium, May, 2017.
- University of Madison-Wisconsin, School of Occupational Therapy, Caroline Thompson Memorial lecture, September, 2016.
- Université Laval. Programme d’ergothérapie, Nicole Ebacher Memorial lecture, May, 2016.
- Hogeschool van Amderstam, The Netherlands, Professional in the lead (lazing ergotherapie) lectureship, February, 2014.
- Society for the Study of Occupation: USA, Ruth Zemke Lectureship, October, 2013.
- Canadian Society of Occupational Scientists, Townsend and Polatajko Lectureship, May, 2012.
- University of North Carolina, Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Mitchell Symposium in Occupational Science, February, 2012.
Featured Publications/Projects
- Laliberte Rudman, D. (2014, October). Embracing and enacting an occupational imagination: Occupational science as transformative. Journal of Occupational Science, 21(4), 373-388.
- Laliberte Rudman, D. (2013). Enacting the critical potential of occupational science: Problematizing the individualizing of occupation. Journal of Occupational Science, 20(4), 298-313.
- On-going project – Possibilities and boundaries in the socio-political shaping of long-term unemployment, http://possibilitiesandboundaries.ca/
Recent Publications
- Laliberte Rudman, D., Aldrich, R.M., Grundy, J., Stone, M., Huot, S., Aslam, A. (2017). “You got to make the numbers work”: Negotiating managerial reforms in the provision of employment support service. Alternate Routes: A journal of critical social inquiry, 28, 47-79.
- Harris, K., Krygsman, S., Waschenko, J. & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2017). Ageism and the older worker: A scoping review. The Gerontologist, 0(0), 1-14. Doi:10.1093/geront/gnw194.
- Hand, C., Huot, S., Laliberte Rudman, D. & Wijekoon, S. (2017). Qualitative-geospatial methods of exploring person-place transactions in aging adults: A scoping review. The Gerontologist, 0(0), 1-12. Doi:10.1093/geront/gnw130.
- Laliberte Rudman, D. (2017). The duty to age well: Critical reflections on occupational possibilities shaped through discursive and policy responses to population aging. In N. Pollard & D. Sakellariou (eds.). Occupational Therapy without Borders: Integrating justice with practice (2nd edition) (pp.319-327). Edinburgh: Elsevier.
- Laliberte Rudman, D., Gold, D., McGrath, C., Zuvela, B., Spafford, M., & Renwick, R. (2016). “Why would I want to go out?”: The process of negotiating social participation amongst Canadian older adults with age-related vision loss. Canadian Journal on Aging, 35(4), 465-478.
- Laliberte Rudman, D. & Aldrich, R. (2016). ‘Activated, but stuck’: Applying a critical occupational lens to examine the negotiation of long-term unemployment in contemporary socio-political contexts, Societies, 6 (28), 1-17
- Farias, L.V. & Laliberte Rudman, D. & Maghalaes, L. (2016). Ilustrating the importance of critical epistemology to realize the promise of occupational justice. OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, 36(4), 234-243.
- McGrath, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., Polgar, J., Spafford, M., & Trentham, B. (2016). Negotiating ‘positive’ aging in the presence of age-related vision loss (ARVL): The shaping and perpetuation of disability. Journal of Aging Studies, 39, 1-10.
- Laliberte Rudman, D., Egan, M., McGrath, C., Gardner, P., King, J. & Ceci, C. (2016). Low vision rehabilitation, age-related vision loss and risk: A critical interpretive synthesis. The Gerontologist. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnv685.
- Grundy, J. + & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2016, Early View, April). Deciphering deservedness: Canadian Employment Insurance reforms in historical perspective. Social Policy & Administration.doi:10.1111/spol.12230.
- Aldrich, R., & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2016). Situational Analysis: A Visual Analytic Approach that Unpacks the Complexity of Occupation. Journal of Occupational Science, 23(1), 51-66.
- Farias, L.& Laliberte Rudman, D. (2016). A critical interpretive synthesis of the uptake of critical perspectives in occupational science. Journal of Occupational Science 23(1), 33-50.
- Laliberte Rudman, D. (2016). Risk, retirement and the ‘duty to age well’: Shaping productive aging citizens in Canadian newsprint media. In Polzer, J. and Power, E. (Eds.), Neoliberal Governance and Health: Duties, risks and vulnerabilities (pp.108-131). McGill-Queens University Press.
