Fields of Study
- Culture & History
- Policy & Planning
- Social & Political Geography
- Urban
Areas of Interest
Social justice and social planning, participation and engagement, accessibility and disability, subjectivity and identity, qualitative research methods, community engaged research, culture, emotion, affect and the body.
Biography
My current SSHRC and Tri-council funded research projects focus on developing participatory, community-based solutions to issues of accessibility using a range of collaberative processes including building communities of practice, participatory mapping and design. Other areas of research include exploring questions of emotion, culture and relationship in community capacity, identity and action. I teach core curriculum in the graduate Planning program including PLA 1108 Communication in the Face of Power and PLA 1107Y Current Issues Paper, as well as the undergraduate GGR 271 Social Research Methods.
Publications
Ruddick, S., Stephens, L., McKeever, P. (2021). Diagramming disability: A Deleuzian approach to researching childhood disability. Deleuze Studies.15(1), 15-39.
Epstein I., Stephens, L., Severino, S., Jennings, A., Dadashi, N., Khanlou, N. (2020) “Ask Me What I Need”: A Call for Shifting Responsibility and Creating Inclusive Learning Environments in Clinical Placement, 92, Nurse Education Today https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104505
Stephens, L. (2019). Becoming acrobat, becoming academic: an affective, autoethnographic inquiry into collective practices of knowing and becoming. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies. 19(4), 264-274.
Stephens, L., Spalding, K., Aslam, H., Scott, H., Ruddick, S., Young, N., McKeever, P. (2017). Inaccessible childhoods: Evaluating accessibility in homes, schools and neighbourhoods with disabled children. Children’s Geographies, 15(5), 583-599.
Stephens, L., Ruddick, S., McKeever, P. (2015). Disability and Deleuze: An exploration of becoming and embodiment in children’s everyday environments. Body and Society, 21(2), 194-220.