Margaret F. Gibson

Presentations

Autistic "eloping" and other fugitive practices: Reflections on neuroqueer resistance, at University of Sheffield, UK, Tuesday, April 29, 2025:

gibson_autistic_eloping_and_other_fugitive_practices.pdf

When Autistic people leave spaces suddenly or against expectations, this can sometimes be referred to as “eloping”. Different people might have a range of other words they would use instead: fleeing, running away, “nope-ing”, wandering, going missing, hiding, getting lost. While researchers have investigated the risks of “eloping” – especially for children -- they have seldom asked Autistic people what these departures mean for them. In this presentation, Dr. Gibson will share reflections and emerging research findings from a mixed-methods, participatory...

Applied critique (with YouTube link), at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Margaret F. (Meg) Gibson, Social Development Studies and Social Work, University of ��ݮ��Ƶ; Julia Bullard, Information (UBC); Hannah Kia, Social Work (UBC), organized and moderated by Tina Wilson, Social Work (UBC)
Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed
Tuesday, January 21, 5-6:30 pm

in the series
Green College Special Lecture
Social justice and related terms are notoriously unstable objects of analysis and intervention. Liberal responses to seventy-odd years of...

Careworn? Participatory research praxis with disability communities, at Detroit, MI USA, Thursday, November 14, 2024:

careworn_-_participatory_research_praxis_with_disability_communities.pdf

This paper by Margaret F. (Meg) Gibson was delivered at the annual conference of the National Women's Studies Association. Read more about Careworn? Participatory research praxis with disability communities

Listening to neurodivergent women: Research findings to improve practice, at Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Thursday, November 7, 2024:

listening_to_neurodivergent_women.pdf

Margaret F. Gibson, Hannah E. Monroe, and Brianna Urquhart presented findings from the Eloping, Neurodiversity Matters, and Learning Access studies at the Women In Mind conference. Read more about Listening to neurodivergent women: Research findings to improve practice

Observing Neurodiversity, Observing Methodology: Ethnography in Pandemic Times Friday, July 26, 2024

New open-access publication!

Abstract

Ethnographic researchers have long relied upon observation as a powerful means to learn about social relations. This paper discusses research observation that was conducted as a part of an institutional ethnography (IE) investigating how people use the language and ideas of neurodiversity across different settings. While our research protocol initially called for ethnographic observation to take place at in-person events in Southern Ontario, our approach needed to be re-formulated with the switch to...

“White people have an easier time making claims to those identities”: Interviews on neurodiversity, at Desiring Autism and Neurodivergence Symposium, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Tuesday, July 23, 2024:

white_people_have_an_easier_time_making_claims_gibson_et_al_2024.pdf

We presented on a chapter we are writing in which we look at how race was a part of what neurodiversity meant to the people we interviewed, with a particular focus on racialized participants' experiences.

Abstract

The movements, written works, and affiliations of “neurodiversity” have a history spanning over two decades, however within the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the range of people talking and writing about neurodiversity. Academic researchers and educators are comparatively late to these conversations as they...

Experiences of parents with disabilities negotiating care and work during the COVID-19 pandemic, at CASWE, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Tuesday, June 18, 2024:

caswe_2024.pdf

By Brianna Urquhart, Michele Martin, bridget livingstone, Margaret F. Gibson. Presented at the Canadian Association of Social Work Educators 2024 Conference.

Abstract

How have the care and work lives of Canadian parents with disabilities been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? Little literature is available examining how disabled parents navigate their care/work lives within systems, and much of the research that does exist approaches disability through...

Neurodiversity in Social Work Field Education -- with recording link, at Online, Wednesday, March 6, 2024:

neurodiversity_in_the_field_presentation.pptx.pdf

Meg Gibson, Brianna Urquhart, and Hannah Monroe did an Advanced Field Instructor Training for people connected with the schools of social work at Renison University College/ University of ��ݮ��Ƶ and Wilfrid Laurier University. The slides are posted below.

For a recording, see https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/rec/play/_zCMGfwevByjhZGb257HcQIizU296Nay-JAvG31BHizI6ctUJ3vcY6A3gZVTq4PQtZFdX5pMdSg-JCrU.14grurGOKADf0sAm?canPlayFromShare=true&from=share_recording_detail&continueMode=true&componentName=rec-play&originRequestUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fuwaterloo.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fshare%...

Autistic Perspectives on Eloping: Survey Findings, at Washington DC, USA, Friday, January 12, 2024:

eloping_poster_sswr_2024.pdf

By Margaret F. Gibson, bridget livingstone, Nicole Corrado, Steacy Easton, Beinean Evely, Andriy Hrabchuk, & Edwin Ng.

We presented a poster on some of our survey findings at the Society for Social Work Research conference.

Beyond caregiver burnout , at Canadian Association of Social Work Educators conference, York University, Toronto, Friday, June 2, 2023:

caswe_2023_presentation_beyond_caregiver_burnout_urquhart_gibson.pdf

Brianna Urquhart, an MSW student with the project, presented about "caregiver burnout" as it appears in research literature and as it fails to encompass lived experiences. Some of the interviews from the Reimagining Carework Project were integrated into this analysis. Read more about Beyond caregiver burnout

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