Editorial Team

Shanon Phelan is a childhood disability researcher and professor in the School of Occupational Therapy at Dalhousie University. Her work examines how disability, inclusion, and belonging are constructed across health, education, and social systems. Working within critical disability, feminist, and poststructural paradigms, she uses qualitative, participatory approaches to reimagine how disability and inclusion are known, valued, and enacted. 

Juliet Rowe is a motor imagery researcher studying how people learn and relearn movement through imagined action. Originally trained in post-positivist approaches, and working within a field still shaped by post-positivism, she adopts a pragmatist, mixed methods approach to integrate interpretivist insights and ground motor imagery research in the experiences of those who practice it.

Alannah Delahunty-Pike is a mixed methods researcher studying how digital transformations, such as the electronic and centralized integration of patient records can improve health system performance. She adopts a pragmatist approach to her mixed methods inquiry and uses Implementation Science theories, models and frameworks to investigate health system change.  

Pilar Robinson Gonzalez is a pharmacy graduate conducting research to understand how we may improve access and uptake of HPV vaccination by diverse youth. This research is being conducted from a transformative paradigm using a mixed methods research approach to engage and empower youth in their vaccine decision making.  

Maddie Katz is a health researcher interested in wellness and body culture. Their dissertation research investigates experiences of anti-fat bias among transgender and gender-diverse people. They adopt critical, queer, and post-structuralist approaches to qualitatively examine and deconstruct the ways in which normative gender embodiments are predicated on thinness. 

Megan Gray is studying how knowledge translation strategies can be used to effectively implement and sustain evidence-based interventions, specifically targeting pregnant people and their infants during pregnancy, birthing, and postpartum. She adopts a pragmatic approach to answer complex health system inquires using implementation science methods.  

Megan White is a health equity researcher and registered nurse. Her research examines eating disorders among sexual minority women. Informed by poststructural and critical traditions, she approaches inquiry as socially situated and employs qualitative and mixed methods to challenge dominant evidence and justice claims in healthcare.

Renée Masching is of First Nations and Irish ancestry, raised in a family of European heritage. She blends Indigenous and contemporary academic worldviews to explore health through strengths-and community-based inquiry. Specializing in Indigenous HIV and STBBI research, her work bridges academic, cultural, and policy sectors, demonstrating how navigating multiple research paradigms enhances community wellness and self-determination.