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Carla Rice

ResearcherCommunication and media studiesUniversity of Guelph

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Carla Rice

Researcher

Communication and media studies

Social Sciences and Humanities

University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
16 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (8 SSHRC), most recently in 2024.
Supervisor on 1 trainee award (1 CIHR), most recently in 2013.

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Research

research creation Feminist Studies | Disability & Fat Studies | Embodiment & Subjectivity | Rethinking Difference & the Human | Digital Visual & Sensory Methods | Story-Based & Creative Methods | Activist Art | Critical Psychology | New/Old Materialisms multimedia storymaking on-line digital methodologies virtual accessiblity feminist technoscience COVID's impacts on marginalized communities

Latest papers

A feminist neomaterialist exploration of bariatric surgery in Canada.
Body & society · 2026 · senior author
Looking Back With Logos the Cat: Unsettling the Gaze in Multispecies Research.
Qualitative inquiry : QI · 2026
Intersectionality Meets Infrastructure: Recruitment Matrices and Identity Overflow in Just Research.
Qualitative inquiry : QI · 2026 · first author

All 26 publications

Latest funding

Pitching "RelaxComm": Reshaping Access in Disability Media Access Studies
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$56,075
Equity-Oriented Retrofits and the Role of Municipalities in Addressing Energy Poverty
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$88,676
Eng/aging crip rainbow representations: 2SLGBTQ+ disabled older adults access the arts and create belonging through digital storytelling
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$26,776

All 37 grants and awards

26 publications.

A feminist neomaterialist exploration of bariatric surgery in Canada.

Bessey M, Rice C

Body & society2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/1357034x261480061 PMID: 42775073

Looking Back With Logos the Cat: Unsettling the Gaze in Multispecies Research.

Linares-Roake J, Cudworth E, Van Patter L, Rice C, Breen AV

Qualitative inquiry : QI2026

DOI: 10.1177/10778004251346740 PMID: 42282132

Intersectionality Meets Infrastructure: Recruitment Matrices and Identity Overflow in Just Research.

Rice C, Temple Jones C, Collins K, Cheuk FN

Qualitative inquiry : QI2026First author

DOI: 10.1177/10778004251337413 PMID: 42058933

Problematising menstrual tracking apps: presenting a novel critical scoping review methodology for mapping and interpreting research literature.

Riley S, Healy-Cullen S, Rice C, Tiidenberg K, Hawkey A, Evans A, Stephens C, Tappin J, Ensslin A, Morison T

Psychology & health2026

DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2445518 PMID: 39844379

Body-Mapping the Affective Politics of Bariatric Surgery.

Bessey M, Rice C

International review of qualitative research : IRQR2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/19408447251334614 PMID: 41939146

Differences as potentials: A posthuman re-envisioning of disability and mobility.

Gibson BE, Rice C, Gladstone BM, Gray J, Kelly E, Mosleh D, Mistry B

Health (London, England : 1997)2025

DOI: 10.1177/13634593251329489 PMID: 40132133

Exploring the ruling relations of eating disorder treatment in Ontario.

Costantini S, Rice C

Journal of eating disorders2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s40337-025-01362-3 PMID: 40814007

Emotion regulation as affective neoliberal governmentality.

Smoliak O, Rice C, Rudder D, Tseliou E, LaMarre A, LeCouteur A, Gaete J, Davies A, Henshaw S

Family process2025

DOI: 10.1111/famp.13064 PMID: 39384555

Graying arts access: crafting creative online programming to promote older adults' artistic engagement in and beyond pandemic time

McFarland J, Rice C, Changfoot N, La Rose T, Alfaro-Laganse C, Badri S, Smith K, Katz B

Frontiers in Sociology20242 citations

DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1454143

Misfits Meet Art and Technology: Cripping Transmethodologies.

Rice C, Chandler E, Shanouda F, Temple Jones C, Mündel I

Cultural studies <=> critical methodologies2024First author

DOI: 10.1177/15327086241234705 PMID: 39092137

Pitching "RelaxComm": Reshaping Access in Disability Media Access Studies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jones, Chelsea T.

Keywords: critical media access studies; communications; critical disability studies; youth

$56,075

Equity-Oriented Retrofits and the Role of Municipalities in Addressing Energy Poverty

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tozer, Laura

Keywords: energy poverty; climate change; local government; governance; energy efficiency

$88,676

Eng/aging crip rainbow representations: 2SLGBTQ+ disabled older adults access the arts and create belonging through digital storytelling

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: McFarland, Jami

Keywords: Aging; Disability; Two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer (2SLGBTQ+); Arts and Culture; Access/ibility; Inclusion; Participatory action research (PAR); Arts-based methods; Digital storytelling; Aging/Disability Nexus

$26,776

Population Diversity and Economic Development in the Ancient Maya city of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Reese-Taylor, Kathryn

Keywords: Maya; Mesoamerica; settlement patterns; urbanism; political economy; social organization

$61,289

Capturing care work: Making visible women's emotional work in families through participatory video

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Smoliak, Olga A.

Keywords: emotion work; gender; family; participatory inquiry; cellphilming; qualitative

$52,428

Modalities of Mobility: Infrastructural Citizenship and Urban Rail Transportation in Canada, Spain, and India

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wood, Patricia K.

Keywords: infrastructure; mobility; urban citizenship; urban governance; public space; public transportation; rail

$45,937

Access Activations: Advancing cultural accessibility

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chandler, Eliza

Keywords: disability arts; action research; organizational change

$45,534

The Work of Stories in the World

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Rice, Carla M.

Keywords: Storywork; Multimedia/Digital Storytelling; Critical Arts-based Methods; Post-Philosophies; Indigenous Thought; Indigenous Research Methods; Research Creation; Critical Digital Research; Affective Impacts; Social Change; Transformational Change

$49,269

Exacerbated hunger: Addressing racialized food insecurity in the era of COVID-19

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Da Costa, Jade

Keywords: Food Justice; COVID-19; Anti-racism; Decolonization; Mutual Aid; Intersectionality; Social Movements; Multimedia Storymaking

$43,126

Sizing up accessibility: an arts-based exploration of weight discrimination as a barrier to disabled people's public participation in Ontario

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Taylor, Allison

Keywords: disability; ableism; weight discrimination; body size; participatory action research; digital storytelling; arts-based methods; critical disability studies; accessibility; social services

$71,607

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Carla Rice

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

A feminist neomaterialist exploration of bariatric surgery in Canada.

Looking Back With Logos the Cat: Unsettling the Gaze in Multispecies Research.

Intersectionality Meets Infrastructure: Recruitment Matrices and Identity Overflow in Just Research.

Problematising menstrual tracking apps: presenting a novel critical scoping review methodology for mapping and interpreting research literature.

Body-Mapping the Affective Politics of Bariatric Surgery.

Differences as potentials: A posthuman re-envisioning of disability and mobility.

Exploring the ruling relations of eating disorder treatment in Ontario.

Emotion regulation as affective neoliberal governmentality.

Graying arts access: crafting creative online programming to promote older adults' artistic engagement in and beyond pandemic time

Misfits Meet Art and Technology: Cripping Transmethodologies.

Pitching "RelaxComm": Reshaping Access in Disability Media Access Studies

Equity-Oriented Retrofits and the Role of Municipalities in Addressing Energy Poverty

Eng/aging crip rainbow representations: 2SLGBTQ+ disabled older adults access the arts and create belonging through digital storytelling

Population Diversity and Economic Development in the Ancient Maya city of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico

Capturing care work: Making visible women's emotional work in families through participatory video

Modalities of Mobility: Infrastructural Citizenship and Urban Rail Transportation in Canada, Spain, and India

Access Activations: Advancing cultural accessibility

The Work of Stories in the World

Exacerbated hunger: Addressing racialized food insecurity in the era of COVID-19

Sizing up accessibility: an arts-based exploration of weight discrimination as a barrier to disabled people's public participation in Ontario

Frequent collaborators

Olga Smoliak

Eliza Chandler

Jess Haines

Jami McFarland

Julia Gruson-Wood

Roxanne Mykitiuk

Tara La Rose

Kwame Mckenzie

Carla Rice

Sally Chivers