Key Publications

Aldrich, R., Laliberte Rudman, D., Fernandes, K., Nguyen, G., & Larkin, S. (2023). (Re)making ‘Third Places’ in precarious times: Conceptual, empirical, and practical opportunities for occupational science. Journal of Occupational Science, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2234382 

Blankvoort, N., Laliberte Rudman, D., van Hartingsveldt, M. & Krumeich, A. (2023, February, early on-line). ‘New’ Dutch civic integration: learning ‘spontaneous compliance’ to address inherent difference. Critical Discourse Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2179648

Dash, M.J. Hamdani, Y., Laliberte Rudman, D. & Teachman, G. (2023, early on-line). Representations of parenting autistic children: A critical interpretive synthesis. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2023.2210802

Hand, C., McFarland, J., Stewart, K., McGrath, C., Laliberte Rudman, D. & Gilliland, J.  (2023). Applying the go-along method to enhance understandings of occupation in context. Journal of Occupational Science, 30(1), 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2021.1992794

Hand, C., Prentice, K., McGrath, C., Laliberte Rudman, D. & Donnelly, C. (2023). Contested occupation in place: Experiences of inclusion and exclusion in senior’s housing. Journal of Occupational Science, 30(1), 94-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2022.2125897

Aldrich, R.M., Galvaan, R., Gerlach, A.J., Laliberte Rudman, D., Magalhaes, L., Pollard, N. & Farias, L. (2022). Promoting critically informed learning about occupation through conference engagements. Journal of Occupational Science, 29(4), 602-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2021.1970617

Benjamin-Thomas. T. E., Laliberte Rudman, D., McGrath, C., Cameron, D., Abraham, V. J., Gunaseelan, J., Vinoth Kumar, S. P. (2022). Situating occupational injustices experienced by children with disabilities in rural India within sociocultural, economic, and systemic conditions. Journal of Occupational Science, 29(1), 97-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2021.1899038

Fuchigami, K., McGrath, C., Bengall, J., Kim, S. & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2022). Assistive technology use among older adults with vision loss: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Canadian newspapers. Canadian Journal on Aging, 41(2), 154-163. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980821000210

Huff, S., Laliberte Rudman, D., Magalhaes, L., Lawson, E., & Kanyamala, M. (2022). Enacting a critical decolonizing ethnographic approach. Journal of Occupational Science, 29(1), 115-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2020.1824803 

Huot, S., Aldrich, R., Laliberte Rudman, D. & Stone, M.  (2022). Picturing precarity through occupational mapping: Mapping the (im)mobilities of long-term unemployment. Journal of Occupational Science, 29(4), 529-544. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2020.1821244

Laliberte Rudman, D., Aldrich, R. & Kiepek, N. (2022). Evolving understandings of occupation. In M. Egan & G. Restall (eds). Promoting occupational participation: Collaborative relationship-focused occupational therapy (pp.11-30). Ottawa: Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists.

Schiller, S., van Bruggen, H., Kantartzis, S., Laliberte Rudman, D., Lavalley, R. & Pollard N. (2022, early on-line). ‘Making change by shared doing’: An examination of occupational processes in social transformation in five case studies. Scandanavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2022.2046153

Stewart, K., Hand, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., McGrath, C., McFarland, J., Gilliland, J., Kinghorn, W. (2022). Invisible, unrecognised and undervalued: examining stories of unpaid work performed by older adults in their local neighbourhoods. Ageing and Society, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X2200126X

Wijekoon, S., Polgar, J., Hand, C. & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2022). Taking refuge in religion: Buddhist-oriented coping following later-life immigration. Canadian Journal on Aging, 41(3), 620-630. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980821000684

Benjamin-Thomas, T., Laliberte Rudman, D., & Thomas, D. (2021) Enacting contextually responsive scholarship: Centering occupation in participatory action research with children in India. South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 51(3), 22-31. 

Blankvoort, N., van Hartingsveldt, M., Laliberte Rudman, D., & Krumeich, A. (2021). Decolonising civic integration: a critical analysis of texts used in Dutch civic integration programmes. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 6, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1893668

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2021). Informing social occupational therapy: Unpacking the ‘social’ using critical social theory. In R.E. Lopes & A. P. Malfitano (Eds.), Social occupational therapy (pp.143-150). Elsevier.

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2021). Mobilizing occupation for social transformation: Radical resistance, disruption, and re-configuration. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 88(2), 96-107.

Laliberte Rudman, D. & Aldrich, R. (2021, early on-line). Producing precarity: The individualization of later life unemployment within employment support provision. Journal of Aging Studies, 57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2021.100924

Aldrich, R.A., Laliberte Rudman, D., Park, N.E., & Huot, S. (2020). Centering the complexity of long-term unemployment: Lessons learned from a critical occupational science inquiry. Societies, 10(3), 65, https://doi.org/10.3390/soc10030065

Aldrich, B. & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2020). Occupational therapists as street-level bureaucrats: Leveraging the political nature of everyday practice. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 87(2), 137-143.

Corrado, A. M., Benjamin-Thomas, T. E., McGrath, C., Hand, C., & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2020). Participatory Action Research with older adults: A critical interpretive synthesis. The Gerontologist, 60(5), e413-e427. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnz080

Grenier, A., Hatzifilalithis, S., Laliberte Rudman, D., Kobayashi, K., Marier, P. & Phillipson, C. (2020). Aging and precarity: A scoping review. The Gerontologist, 60(8), e620-e632. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronto/gnz135 

Hand, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., Huot, S., Pack, R. & Gilliand, J. (2020). Enacting agency: Exploring how older adults shape their neighbourhoods. Ageing & Society, 40, 565-583. https://doi.org/10.1017/50144686X18001150 

Benjamin-Thomas, T., Laliberte Rudman, D., McGrath, C., Cameron, D., Abraham, V. (2019). A Participatory Filmmaking Process with Children with Disabilities in rural India: Working towards Inclusive Research. Methodological Innovations, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/12059799119890995

Farias, L. & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2019). Challenges in enacting occupation-based social transformative practices: A critical dialogical study. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008417419828798

Farias, L. & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2019). Practice analysis: Critical reflexivity on discourses constraining socially transformative occupational therapy practices. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 82(11), 693-697. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022619862111

Kiepek, N.C., Beagan, B., Laliberte Rudman, D. & Phelan, S. (2019). Silences around occupations framed as unhealthy, illegal, and deviant. Journal of Occupational Science, 26(3), 341-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2018.1499123

Laliberte Rudman, D., Pollard, N., Craig, C., Kantartzis, S., Piskur, B., Simó Algado, S., van Bruggen, H., & Schiller, S. (2019). Contributing to social transformation through occupation: Experiences from a think tank. Journal of Occupational Science, 26(2), 316–322. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2018.1538898

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2019). Transformative Scholarship: Possibilities and challenges for radical forms of participation. Japanese Journal of Occupational Science, 13,1-11.

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. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406919891292

Pack, R., Hand, C., Laliberte Rudman, D. & Huot, S. (2019). Governing the aging body: explicating the negotiation of ‘positive’ ageing in everyday life. Ageing & Society, 39(9), 2085-2101. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X18000442

Benjamin-Thomas, T., Corrado, A.M., McGrath, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., & Hand, C. (2018). Working towards the promise of Participatory Action Research: Learning from ageing research exemplars. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 17, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406918817953

Gerlach, A. J., Teachman, G., Laliberte Rudman, D., Aldrich, R. M., & Huot, S. (2018) Expanding beyond individualism: Engaging critical perspectives on occupation. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. 25(1), 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2017.1327616

Grundy, J.  & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2018). Deciphering deservedness: Canadian Employment Insurance reforms in historical perspective. Social Policy & Administration. 52(3), 809-825. doi:10.1111/spol.12230. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12230

Harris, K., Krygsman, S. , Waschenko, J.  & Laliberte Rudman, D. (2018). Ageism and the older worker: A scoping review. The Gerontologist, 58(2), e1-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnw194

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2018). Occupational therapy and occupational science: Building critical and transformative alliances. Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional (Brazilian Journal of Occupational Therapy), 26(1), 241-249. https://doi.org/10.4322/2526-8910.ctoEN1246

Fanelli, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., & Aldrich, R. M. (2017). Precarity in the Nonprofit Employment Services Sector. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 54(3), 331-352. https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12153

Grenier, A., Phillipson, C., Laliberte Rudman, D., Hatzifilalithis, S., Kobayashi, K & Marier, P. (2017). Precarity in late life: Understanding new forms of risk and insecurity. Journal of Aging Studies, 43, p. 9-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2017.08.002

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.

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, UK: Elsevier.

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2015.1045014

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, doi: 10.3390/soci6030028. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc6030028

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2016). Risk, retirement and the ‘duty to age well’: Shaping productive aging citizens in Canadian newsprint media. In Polzer, J. & Power, E. (Eds.), Neoliberal Governance and Health: Duties, risks and vulnerabilities (pp.108-131). McGill-Queens University Press.

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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980816000490

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2014.989893

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2015). Embodying positive aging and neoliberal rationality: Talking about the aging body within narratives of retirement. Journal of Aging Studies, 34(1), 10-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2015.03.005

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2015). Situating occupation in social relations of power: Occupational possibilities, ageism and the retirement choice. South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 45(1), 27-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2310-3833/2015/v45no1a5 

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2014). Embracing and enacting an occupational imagination: Occupational science as transformative. Journal of Occupational Science, 21(4), 373-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2014.888970

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2010). Occupational terminology: Occupational possibilities. Journal of Occupational Science, 17(1), 55-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2010.9686673

Laliberte Rudman, D., Huot, S.  & Dennhardt, S. (2009). Shaping ideal places for retirement – Occupational possibilities within contemporary media. Journal of Occupational Science, 16(1), 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2009.9686637

Laliberte Rudman, D. & Molke, D. (2009). Forever productive: The discursive shaping of later life workers in contemporary Canadian newspapers. WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 32, 377-390. https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-2009-0850   

Laliberte Rudman, D. & Dennhardt, S. (2008). Shaping knowledge regarding occupation: Examining the cultural underpinnings of the evolving concept of occupational identity. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 55, 153-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1630.2007.00715.x

Laliberte Rudman, D., Dennhardt, S. , Fok, D. , Huot, S. , Molke, D. , Park, A.  & Zur, B. (2008). A vision for occupational science: Reflecting on our disciplinary culture. Journal of Occupational Science, 15(3), 136-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2008.9686623

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2006). ‘Positive aging’ and its implications for occupational possibilities in later life. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 73(3), 188-192. https://doi.org/10.1177/000841740607300305

Laliberte Rudman, D. (2006). Shaping the active, autonomous and responsible modern retiree: An analysis of  discursive technologies and their connections with neoliberal political rationality. Ageing and Society, 26, 181-201. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X05004253