Research
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Latest papers
Differences as potentials: A posthuman re-envisioning of disability and mobility.
Health (London, England : 1997) · 2025
Playing well with others: lessons from theatre for the health professions about collaboration, creativity and community.
Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2024 · first author
Projecting a Critique of Stigma Associated With Dementia on Screen: The Impact of a Canadian Film on the Importance of Relational Caring in the Community.
The Gerontologist · 2024
Latest funding
- $20,000
Bridging the gap between knowledge and practice in dementia care: Using the arts to challenge stigma and facilitate relational caring
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $200,000
Culturally-Sustaining Arts for Social Wellness: Advancing a Community-Artist-Research Collective
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $237,437
NARTURE: More-than-Human Inquiry Using Art and Nature to Promote Equity and Inclusion
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
10 publications.
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
Playing well with others: lessons from theatre for the health professions about collaboration, creativity and community.
Gray J, Cartmill C, Whitehead C
Projecting a Critique of Stigma Associated With Dementia on Screen: The Impact of a Canadian Film on the Importance of Relational Caring in the Community.
Kontos P, Grigorovich A, Dupuis SL, Colobong R, Gray J, Jonas-Simpson C, Serota A
Dementia and sexuality in long-term care: Incompatible bedfellows?
Grigorovich A, Kontos P, Heesters A, Martin LS, Gray J, Tamblyn Watts L
Re-claiming citizenship through the arts.
Dupuis SL, Kontos P, Mitchell G, Jonas-Simpson C, Gray J
Arts-based social skills interventions for adolescents with acquired brain injuries: Five case reports
Agnihotri S, Gray J, Colantonio A, Polatajko H, Cameron D, Wiseman-Hakes C, Rumney P, Keightley M
Two case study evaluations of an arts-based social skills intervention for adolescents with childhood brain disorder
Agnihotri S, Gray J, Colantonio A, Polatajko H, Cameron D, Wiseman-Hakes C, Rumney P, Keightley M
Staging data: theatre as a tool for analysis and knowledge transfer in health research.
Rossiter K, Kontos P, Colantonio A, Gilbert J, Gray J, Keightley M
After the crash: research-based theater for knowledge transfer.
Colantonio A, Kontos PC, Gilbert JE, Rossiter K, Gray J, Keightley ML
From page to stage: dramaturgy and the art of interdisciplinary translation.
Rossiter K, Gray J, Kontos P, Keightley M, Colantonio A, Gilbert J
Bridging the gap between knowledge and practice in dementia care: Using the arts to challenge stigma and facilitate relational caring
Principal investigators: Kontos, Pia C
Keywords: Betty Havens Prize
Culturally-Sustaining Arts for Social Wellness: Advancing a Community-Artist-Research Collective
Principal investigators: Charise, Andrea
Keywords: arts engagement; community arts; arts based research; social wellness; social prescribing; health equity; flourishing; community engagement
NARTURE: More-than-Human Inquiry Using Art and Nature to Promote Equity and Inclusion
Principal investigators: Juando Prats, Clara
Keywords: youth engagement youth studies post-human inquiry new-materialisms social isolation social inequities gender-based violence teenage parenting visual arts nature
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Helene Polatajko-Howell and Helene Polatajko: 352 shared papers
- Pia Kontos and Alisa Grigorovich: 78 shared papers
- Katherine Rossiter and Kate Rossiter: 48 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Pia Kontos: 21 shared papers
- Catherine Wiseman-Hakes and Angela Colantonio: 15 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Alisa Grigorovich: 6 shared papers
- Pia Kontos and Julia Gray: 6 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Helene Polatajko-Howell: 5 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Julie Gilbert: 5 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Julia Gray: 5 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Helene Polatajko: 5 shared papers
- Pia Kontos and Julie Gilbert: 5 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Katherine Rossiter: 4 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Kate Rossiter: 4 shared papers
- Pia Kontos and Katherine Rossiter: 4 shared papers
- Pia Kontos and Kate Rossiter: 4 shared papers
- Julie Gilbert and Katherine Rossiter: 4 shared papers
- Catherine Wiseman-Hakes and Helene Polatajko-Howell: 3 shared papers
- Catherine Wiseman-Hakes and Helene Polatajko: 3 shared papers
- Barbara Gibson and Helene Polatajko-Howell: 3 shared papers
- Barbara Gibson and Helene Polatajko: 3 shared papers
- Julie Gilbert and Julia Gray: 3 shared papers
- Katherine Rossiter and Julia Gray: 3 shared papers
- Kate Rossiter and Julia Gray: 3 shared papers
- Catherine Wiseman-Hakes and Alisa Grigorovich: 2 shared papers
- Catherine Wiseman-Hakes and Julia Gray: 2 shared papers
- Catherine Wiseman-Hakes and Peter Rumney: 2 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Peter Rumney: 2 shared papers
- Brenda Gladstone and Pia Kontos: 2 shared papers
- Brenda Gladstone and Barbara Gibson: 2 shared papers
- Helene Polatajko-Howell and Julia Gray: 2 shared papers
- Helene Polatajko-Howell and Peter Rumney: 2 shared papers
- Alisa Grigorovich and Julia Gray: 2 shared papers
- Julia Gray and Helene Polatajko: 2 shared papers
- Julia Gray and Peter Rumney: 2 shared papers
- Brenda Gladstone and Carla Rice: 1 shared paper
- Brenda Gladstone and Julia Gray: 1 shared paper
- Cynthia Whitehead and Julia Gray: 1 shared paper
- Pia Kontos and Ann Heesters: 1 shared paper
- Barbara Gibson and Carla Rice: 1 shared paper
- Barbara Gibson and Julia Gray: 1 shared paper
- Ann Heesters and Alisa Grigorovich: 1 shared paper
- Ann Heesters and Julia Gray: 1 shared paper
- Carla Rice and Julia Gray: 1 shared paper
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Munk School
- Other Sociology
- Sociology
- Rehabilitation Science
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Pia Kontos
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
6 shared papers, latest 2024
Angela Colantonio
Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
5 shared papers, latest 2014
Michelle Keightley
Faculty
5 shared papers, latest 2014
Julie Gilbert
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
3 shared papers, latest 2008
Kate Rossiter
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2008
Katherine Rossiter
Other Sociology
3 shared papers, latest 2008
Helene Polatajko
Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
2 shared papers, latest 2014
Peter Rumney
Department of Paediatrics
2 shared papers, latest 2014
Helene Polatajko-Howell
Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
2 shared papers, latest 2014
Catherine Wiseman-Hakes
Rehabilitation Science
2 shared papers, latest 2014
Alisa Grigorovich
Sociology
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Ann Heesters
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Carla Rice
Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Cynthia Whitehead
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Brenda Gladstone
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Barbara Gibson
Department of Physical Therapy
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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