Colleen Reid
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Research Interests
- health inequities
- aging and dementia
- mental health
- community based research
- social determinants of health
- leisure and recreation
Other Scholars in Therapeutic Recreation
Other Scholars in Applied Community Studies
Academic Introduction
PhD (University of British Columbia) Interdisciplinary Studies in Health Sciences
MA (University of British Columbia) Human Kinetics in Socio-cultural Studies
B.PHE (Queen's University) Physical and Health Education
BA (Queen's University) Psychology
Douglas College Faculty member since 2009.
Colleen is Faculty in the Department of Therapeutic Recreation and Coordinator of the Research Innovation Office at Douglas College. She also holds Adjunct Professor positions in the Public Policy program at Simon Fraser University, in Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of British Columbia, and in the Faculty of Health Professions at Dalhousie University. As an interdisciplinary graduate student at UBC, a health sciences postdoctoral researcher at SFU, and faculty at Douglas she has been involved in community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects for over 25 years. Colleen uses CBPR approaches, including community-based research, action research, participatory action research, practitioner research, applied research, and feminist participatory action research, to study and promote health in the contexts of oppression, suffering, and stigma for marginalized groups. She has conducted research with women on low-income, women living in diverse contexts struggling with employability, practitioners striving for recognition in their workplace and the health care system, individuals with lived experience of mental illness and individuals with dementia. Currently, she is co-lead on the Vancouver Foundation-funded CBPR project “Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experience of Dementia.” Her recent publications were in the Therapeutic Recreation Journal, Leisure / Loisir, Leisure Sciences, Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, AFFILIA: Journal of Women and Social Work, and Nursing Inquiry, and she recently co-authored the third edition of Research, Experience, Social Change: Critical Methods (University of Toronto Press). In Colleen's research and teaching, she focuses on critical social research methods, community development, the determinants of health, and leisure and recreation. She brings a strong commitment to social justice and participatory and inclusive approaches to her work.
Recent Citations for Colleen Reid
- Performing intersectionality: The mutuality of intersectional analysis and feminist participatory action health research
- Imagining inclusion: Uncovering the upstream determinants of mental health through photovoice
- Evidence-based practice in Therapeutic Recreation : An examination of clinical decision-making in mental health
- Therapeutic recreation's contributions to Canada's National Recreation framework
- Experience, research, social change: Critical methods
- The wounds of exclusion: Poverty, women's health, and social justice
- Confronting condescending ethics: How community-based research challenges traditional approaches to consent, confidentiality, and capacity
- Collaborating with peers in mental health research: Promoting equity or reinforcing marginalization
- The lived experience of recovery: The role of health work in addressing the social determinants of mental health
- Examining self-other constructions to advance the social justice goals of leisure research
- Confronting two-tiered community recreation and poor women's exclusion: Promoting inclusion, health and social justice
- Advancing women's social justice agendas: a feminist action research framework
- Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research
- A review of relationships between active living and determinants of health
- Living an ethical agreement: negotiating confidentiality and harm in feminist participatory action research
- The burden of being “employable”: underpaid and unpaid work and women’s health
- Experience research social change: methods beyond the mainstream
- Addressing diversity and inequities in health promotion: The implications of intersectional theory
- Feminist participatory action Research
- Finding the ‘action’ in feminist participatory action research
- Putting "participatory" into participatory forms of action research
- The health benefits of physical activity for girls and women: Literature review and recommendations for future research and policy
- Leveling the playing field: Promoting the health of poor women through a community development approach to recreation
- Continuing the journey: articulating dimensions of feminist participatory action research (FPAR)
- Explaining the health gap experienced by girls and women in Canada: A social determinants of health perspective
- The 'f' word has everything to do with it: how feminist theories inform action research
- A full measure: Towards a comprehensive model for the measurement of women’s health
- Building a culture of research: Using undergraduate research to advance the TR profession, build research capacity, and foster collaborative relationships
- Assumptions, Ambiguities, and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Population Health Research
- 'Welfare moms and welfare bums': Revisiting poverty as a social determinant of health
- Seduction and enlightenment in feminist action research
- Good, bad, thwarted or addicted? Discourses of substance-using mothers
- Our common ground: Cultivating women’s health through community based research
- Diversifying health promotion
- Using community-based research to explore common language and shared identity in the therapeutic recreation profession in British Columbia, Canada
- Poor women's discourses of legitimacy, poverty, and health
- Raising the curtain: at the intersection of education, art, health care and lived experience of dementia
- Wrapping it up: Sharing the gift of reflection and action
