Welcome to Transforming Occupational Possibilities
Collaborators within the Transforming Occupational Possibilities (TOP) research group use critical qualitative methodologies to deepen understanding of how inequities in occupational possibilities in a variety of realms, such as work, social participation, and education, are shaped through social and political forces and conditions. We focus on working with collectives facing intersecting occupational health, social and health inequities - such as older adults negotiating precarity, persons who are unemployed, precarious workers, and persons negotiating disabilities - in order to broaden occupational possibilities.
Foundational Aspects of Our Scholarship
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that Western University is located on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Chonnonton Nations, on lands connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum. This land continues to be home to diverse Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) whom we recognize as contemporary stewards of the land and vital contributors of our society
Work within the Transforming Occupational Possibilities lab addresses the critical need to attend to diversity and deepen understanding of the situated nature of occupation to disrupt occupational inequities and inform social transformation aimed at creating more just social conditions and occupational possibilities. We acknowledge social, health and occupational inequities that Indigenous Peoples endure in the London, Ontario region and in Canada, and underscore our individual and collective responsibility to respectfully partner with Indigenous peoples to disrupt inequities and the power relations that sustain them.
