Presentations

Learning Through "Teach-Offs", at ݮƵ, Thursday, May 1, 2025:
fymsic_teach-offs.pdf

Talk given at the 2025 UWTL conference (and also at the FYMSiC one-day conference a week later)

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The Math Prof Teach-Offs began in Winter 2023 as a way to challenge how teaching is evaluated, by bringing together students and willing instructors in an experimental event. Students were given a surprise topic and a short quiz to measure their prior knowledge, and then split randomly into three groups. Each was taught a one-hour lesson by an award-winning instructor, and then students were tested again with a...

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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...

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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 ݮƵ; 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...

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Technology Tools for Flexible Projects Saturday, November 23, 2024:
online_cms_presentation.pptx

Abstract: There are numerous benefits to using projects in math courses – giving students the opportunity to learn by doing, develop their communication and teamwork skills, and choose topics that matter to them. But there are many practical issues, especially at scale. This talk will discuss some technology tools that can be used to administer projects flexibly and efficiently.

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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...

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