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Fiona Webster

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Professor, Assoc. Dir. Nursing ResearchArthur Labatt Family School of NursingWestern University

Fiona Webster

Professor, Assoc. Dir. Nursing Research

Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing

Faculty of Health Sciences

Western University

London, Ontario, Canada

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21 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2023.

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220

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Research

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Chronic Pain Health Equity Social Determinants Of Health Social Equity Sociology Institutional Ethnography Marginalized Populations

Latest papers

"I wish I had been more surgeon-like in my approach": A qualitative exploration of breastfeeding in women in surgery.
American journal of surgery · 2026
Recommendations for adapting an online mindfulness program for people living with spinal cord injury: results from a pilot online survey with an integrated knowledge translation approach.
Disability and rehabilitation · 2026
Protection from "any kind of risk" - a qualitative study exploring young women's experiences of safer sex in Canada.
BMC women's health · 2026

All 41 publications

Latest funding

Co-producing knowledge of disabled youth's 'everyday pain': A multimedia storytelling project informed by disability studies perspectives
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$317,476
A Systematic Review of Online Learning and its Variants as Related to Self-Efficacy, Achievement and Attitudes in Pre- and In-service Teacher Education
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$61,043
Longitudinal effects of prenatal exposure to genocide against the Tutsi: a community-based participatory study with and for affected Rwandans
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$52,275

All 8 grants and awards

41 publications.

"I wish I had been more surgeon-like in my approach": A qualitative exploration of breastfeeding in women in surgery.

Graham ME, Manouchehri K, Patel A, Vucenovic D, Wilson CA, Davidson J, Webster F, Shaw JM, Seemann NM

American journal of surgery2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2026.116872 PMID: 41720674

Recommendations for adapting an online mindfulness program for people living with spinal cord injury: results from a pilot online survey with an integrated knowledge translation approach.

Senthilnathan V, Simpson R, Jaglal S, Craven BC, Fetterly MJ, Allin S, Webster F, Hearn J, Luong D, Munce SE

Disability and rehabilitation2026

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2612456 PMID: 41503783

Protection from "any kind of risk" - a qualitative study exploring young women's experiences of safer sex in Canada.

Kennedy VL, Ford-Gilboe M, Zylak C, Webster F, Berman H, Rabie C, Rude H, Newman-Fogel S

BMC women's health2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12905-026-04389-z PMID: 42152030

Mourner's Little Helper: The Use of Psychotropics in the Treatment of Grief-Related Distress From Opium to Opioid Antagonists.

Costa Duarte L, Webster F, Gorman E

Omega2026

DOI: 10.1177/00302228261444156 PMID: 41995016

How do individuals with spinal cord injury practice mindfulness? Barriers & facilitators to practicing mindfulness and considerations for tailoring programs.

Luong D, Lee TJ, Simpson R, Fetterly MJ, Jaglal S, Allin S, Craven C, Hearn J, Webster F, Munce S

Disability and rehabilitation2026

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2580297 PMID: 41159570

"Knowing Otherwise": Unsettling Notions of Crisis Within Contexts of Chronic Pain and Poverty in the COVID-19 Era.

Connoy L, Rice K, Dale CM, Sud A, Upshur R, Katz J, Pinto AD, Webster F

Qualitative Health Research2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/10497323261427570

Clinician and researcher responses to the term pain catastrophizing and whether new terminology is needed: Content analysis of international, cross-sectional, qualitative survey data.

Boyd H, You DS, Nguyen A, Connoy L, Ahuja D, Chambers C, Cowan P, Cox R, Crombez G, Feinstein AB, Fuqua A, Gilam G, Mackey SC, McCracken LM, Martire LM, Sluka K, O'Sullivan P, Turner JA, Veasley C, Ziadni MS, Ashton-James CE, Webster F, Darnall BD

The journal of pain2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105330 PMID: 39921100

Breaking barriers: addressing opioid stigma in chronic pain and opioid use disorder.

Edwards KA, Merlin JS, Webster F, Mackey SC, Darnall BD

Pain2025

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003475 PMID: 39560423

Call to Action: Integrating Anti-racist Philosophies in Dismantling Racism and Anti-Black Racism in Nursing Education in Canada.

Montague J, Caxaj CS, Webster F

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/08445621241296654 PMID: 39529276

Reconceptualisation of sport and quality of life in young athletes following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: understanding the experiences behind the numbers through a prospective mixed-methods study

Marmura H, Morassutti O, Bryant DM, Getgood AMJ, Webster F

BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine20255 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2024-002107

Co-producing knowledge of disabled youth's 'everyday pain': A multimedia storytelling project informed by disability studies perspectives

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Teachman, Gail

Keywords: Arts-Based Research; Disability; Impairment; Pain; Youth

$317,476

A Systematic Review of Online Learning and its Variants as Related to Self-Efficacy, Achievement and Attitudes in Pre- and In-service Teacher Education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Schmid, Richard F.

Keywords: self-efficacy; online learning; blended learning; flipped classrooms; meta-analysis; qualitative synthesis

$61,043

Longitudinal effects of prenatal exposure to genocide against the Tutsi: a community-based participatory study with and for affected Rwandans

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Uwizeye, Glorieuse

Keywords: Human violence; Historical trauma; Intergenerational legacy of Genocide; Quality of life; Socioeconomic status; Mental Health; Resilience; Biological pathways of stress

$52,275

Integrating people marginalized by structural inequities in chronic pain research and clinical care: lessons from a long-standing multi-disciplinary team

Nominated PICIHR2023CIHR-IMHA Inclusive Research Excellence Prizes - Team Science

Principal investigators: Webster, Fiona

Keywords: Chronic Pain; Health Equity; Social Determinants Of Health; Social Equity; Sociology

$25,000

An institutional ethnography of chronic pain among women living with trauma

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Connoy, Laura

Keywords: chronic pain; women; trauma; social aspects of trauma; trauma and violence informed care; gender; institutional ethnography; health equity; social inequity; social justice

$32,695

Chronic pain, poverty, addiction and mental health in a time of pandemic

Nominated PICIHR2020Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Project Grant

Principal investigators: Webster, Fiona

Keywords: Chronic Pain; Health Equity; Institutional Ethnography; Marginalized Populations

$160,650

Designing a Model to Address the Needs of Persons with Mental Illness Following Homelessness in Two Urban Contexts: A Community Engagement Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Marshall, Carrie Anne

Keywords: Disadvantaged Persons; Health Equity; Homeless Persons; Mental Health; Mental Illness; Participatory Methods; Poverty

$175,951

The ethics of neuroimaging after serious brain injury

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Weijer, Charles E; Owen, Adrian M

Keywords: Decision Making Capacity; Electroencephalography; Ethics; Families; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Qualitative Methods; Quality Of Life; Serious Brain Injury; Vegetative State; Welfare

$343,718

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

Profile data last refreshed on November 9, 2025 from the university directory, publication records and CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding.

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Fiona Webster

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

"I wish I had been more surgeon-like in my approach": A qualitative exploration of breastfeeding in women in surgery.

Recommendations for adapting an online mindfulness program for people living with spinal cord injury: results from a pilot online survey with an integrated knowledge translation approach.

Protection from "any kind of risk" - a qualitative study exploring young women's experiences of safer sex in Canada.

Mourner's Little Helper: The Use of Psychotropics in the Treatment of Grief-Related Distress From Opium to Opioid Antagonists.

How do individuals with spinal cord injury practice mindfulness? Barriers & facilitators to practicing mindfulness and considerations for tailoring programs.

"Knowing Otherwise": Unsettling Notions of Crisis Within Contexts of Chronic Pain and Poverty in the COVID-19 Era.

Clinician and researcher responses to the term pain catastrophizing and whether new terminology is needed: Content analysis of international, cross-sectional, qualitative survey data.

Breaking barriers: addressing opioid stigma in chronic pain and opioid use disorder.

Call to Action: Integrating Anti-racist Philosophies in Dismantling Racism and Anti-Black Racism in Nursing Education in Canada.

Reconceptualisation of sport and quality of life in young athletes following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: understanding the experiences behind the numbers through a prospective mixed-methods study

Co-producing knowledge of disabled youth's 'everyday pain': A multimedia storytelling project informed by disability studies perspectives

A Systematic Review of Online Learning and its Variants as Related to Self-Efficacy, Achievement and Attitudes in Pre- and In-service Teacher Education

Longitudinal effects of prenatal exposure to genocide against the Tutsi: a community-based participatory study with and for affected Rwandans

Integrating people marginalized by structural inequities in chronic pain research and clinical care: lessons from a long-standing multi-disciplinary team

An institutional ethnography of chronic pain among women living with trauma

Chronic pain, poverty, addiction and mental health in a time of pandemic

Designing a Model to Address the Needs of Persons with Mental Illness Following Homelessness in Two Urban Contexts: A Community Engagement Study

The ethics of neuroimaging after serious brain injury

Frequent collaborators

Joel Katz

Abhimanyu Sud

Kathleen Rice

Ross Upshur

Onil Bhattacharyya

Leahora Rotteau

Toni Zhong

Charles Weijer

Craig Dale

Sarah Munce

Helene Retrouvey

Fiona Webster

Robert Simpson

Dianne Bryant

Whitney Berta

Susan Jaglal

Ayelet Kuper

Norah Matthies

Sheryl Spithoff

Teneille Gofton

Helene Berman

Aline Boulanger

Ian Gilron

Merrick Zwarenstein

Christine Chambers

Kathy Speechley

Dianne Bryant

Alan Getgood