Colleen Reid
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Research Interests
- Community based research
- Community development
- Leisure and recreation
- Therapeutic recreation
- Social determinants of health
- Intersectional theory
Academic Introduction
BA (Queen's) Psychology
B.PHE (Queen's) Physical and Health Education
MA (British Columbia) Human Kinetics
PhD (British Columbia) Interdisciplinary Studies in Health Promotion Research
Postdoctoral Fellowship (Simon Fraser University) Health Sciences
Douglas College Faculty since 2009.
For the last 15 years I have been actively engaged in research and advocacy in health promotion with a particular focus on the experiences of disadvantaged groups. I am interested in how a person's social context and status influence her or his health and well-being. In my program of research I focus on health inequalities, access to leisure and recreation, and community-based research.
I have taught and worked towards "democratizing" research, or, in other words, increasing the ways that people use and engage in research so that the research itself is relevant, meaningful, and action-oriented.
Recent Citations for Colleen Reid
- Collaborating with peers in mental health research: Promoting equity or reinforcing marginalization: [Research manuscript currently under review]
- Evidence-based practice in Therapeutic Recreation : An examination of clinical decision-making in mental health
- Explaining the health gap experienced by girls and women in Canada: A social determinants of health perspective
- Feminist participatory action Research
- 'Welfare moms and welfare bums': Revisiting poverty as a social determinant of health
- Wrapping it up: Sharing the gift of reflection and action
- Good, bad, thwarted or addicted? Discourses of substance-using mothers
- Our common ground: Cultivating women’s health through community based research
- Seduction and enlightenment in feminist action research
- A full measure: Towards a comprehensive model for the measurement of women’s health
- Assumptions, Ambiguities, and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Population Health Research
- Leveling the playing field: Promoting the health of poor women through a community development approach to recreation
- Addressing diversity and inequities in health promotion: The implications of intersectional theory
- The health benefits of physical activity for girls and women: Literature review and recommendations for future research and policy
- Confronting two-tiered community recreation and poor women's exclusion: Promoting inclusion, health and social justice
- A review of relationships between active living and determinants of health
- Putting "participatory" into participatory forms of action research
- The wounds of exclusion: poverty, women's health, and social justice
- Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research
- Experience research social change: methods beyond the mainstream
