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Gail Teachman

ResearcherOccupational TherapyWestern University

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Gail Teachman

Researcher

Occupational Therapy

Health Sciences

Western University

London, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
21 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 7 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (2 SSHRC, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Research

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Arts-Based Research Disability Impairment Pain Youth

Latest papers

'Something about an app, you know?': narratives of everyday menstrual justice among trans and nonbinary people in Canada and the USA.
Culture, health & sexuality · 2026
Femtech in context: A critical conceptual (re)view.
Health (London, England : 1997) · 2026
Representations of youth concussion "recovery" in health and rehabilitation sciences: a critical conceptual review.
Disability and rehabilitation · 2025 · senior author

All 24 publications

Latest funding

Beyond biomedical logics: Advancing a relational place-based account of youth concussion
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
$84,846
Occupational possibilities and responsive behaviours: Perspectives from persons living with dementia and their formal caregivers
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
Engaged youth: advancing knowledge on the contributions of young people in the development of practices, policies and research that affect them
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$31,283

All 9 grants and awards

24 publications.

'Something about an app, you know?': narratives of everyday menstrual justice among trans and nonbinary people in Canada and the USA.

Facca D, Hall J, Teachman G, Donelle L

Culture, health & sexuality2026

DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2626360 PMID: 41689352

Femtech in context: A critical conceptual (re)view.

Facca D, Hall J, Teachman G, Redden J, Donelle L

Health (London, England : 1997)2026

DOI: 10.1177/13634593251371327 PMID: 40964927

Representations of youth concussion "recovery" in health and rehabilitation sciences: a critical conceptual review.

Mah K, Gibson BE, Teachman G

Disability and rehabilitation2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2462212 PMID: 39950954

Composing adult lives with a ventilator at the intersection of developmental and neoliberal discourses of time.

Straus EJ, Brown H, Howard AF, Teachman G

Health (London, England : 1997)2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/13634593241226646 PMID: 38234164

Exploring augmentative & alternative communication assessment practices for children with limited functional speech & motor skills: a scoping review utilizing the Participation Model of AAC

Coan-Brill J, Teachman G, Costigan FA, Pham T, Cunningham BJ

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology20253 citations

DOI: 10.1080/17483107.2025.2454253

“My child is completely underestimated”: Canadian parents’ perspectives on implementing an accessible language comprehension assessment for non-speaking children with cerebral palsy

Coan-Brill J, Friesen J, Kay J, Costigan FA, Chau T, Geytenbeek J, Stadskleiv K, Batorowicz B, McCauley D, Hopmans S

Disability and Rehabilitation20252 citations

DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2468844

"We Live Our Life Normal": A Qualitative Analysis of Nigerian Women's Health-Seeking Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Ndu M, Teachman G, Martin J, Nouvet E

International journal of environmental research and public health2024

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph21030265 PMID: 38541267

"Passion to do the right thing": searching for the 'good' in physiotherapist practice.

Kleiner MJ, Kinsella EA, Miciak M, Teachman G, Walton DM

Physiotherapy theory and practice2024

DOI: 10.1080/09593985.2022.2116740 PMID: 36097762

From reflection to phronesis in 'good' physiotherapy practice.

Kleiner MJ, Kinsella EA, Miciak M, Teachman G, Walton DM

Physiotherapy theory and practice2024

DOI: 10.1080/09593985.2023.2285419 PMID: 38108310

"It's what we perceive as different": an interpretative phenomenological analysis of Nigerian women's characterization of their health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ndu M, Teachman G, Martin J, Nouvet E

BMC women's health2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12905-024-03259-w PMID: 39026331

Beyond biomedical logics: Advancing a relational place-based account of youth concussion

Co-investigatorSSHRC2026Insight Development Grants

Principal investigators: Mah, Katherine

$84,846

Occupational possibilities and responsive behaviours: Perspectives from persons living with dementia and their formal caregivers

SupervisorCIHR2025DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)

Principal investigators: Norris, Grace I

Keywords: Alternative And Augmentative Communication; Critical Ethnography; Dementia; Healthcare Professional Education; Occupational Justice; Occupational Possibilities; Occupational Science; Qualitative Research Methods; Responsive Behaviours; Social Citizenship Theory

$120,000

Engaged youth: advancing knowledge on the contributions of young people in the development of practices, policies and research that affect them

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Carnevale, Franco A.

Keywords: youth;engagement;policy;practice;research

$31,283

Mid-Century Melodrama: Identity, Excess, and Political Change in British Fiction

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hepburn, Allan

Keywords: mid-century; novel; British; excess; adaptation; feeling; emotion; affect; politics; coincidence; plot; Cold War; war; postwar; refugees

$32,509

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

Nominated PICIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Teachman, Gail

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

$317,476

Examining structural ableism and its consequences for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities seeking mental health services

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Catalyst Grant: Moving Upstream - Structural Determinants of Health-POR Approach

Principal investigators: Hamdani, Suryani S; Blake, Marissa; Fogle, Adeen S; Parsons, Janet A

Keywords: Adulthood; Arts-Based Methods; Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Patient-Oriented Research; Policies; Qualitative; Structural Abelism

$125,000

Reframing childhood disability: Bridging political and disciplinary boundaries to improve disabled children's lives

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Teachman, Gail

Keywords: (1) disability; (2) child; (3) youth; (4) childhood; (5) social exclusion; (6) social and health inequity; (7) disability studies

$53,106

Beyond Giving Voice: Advancing theory and methodologies for qualitative research with children

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Teachman, Gail

Keywords: children; youth; voice; qualitative research; ethics

$25,000

Tweeting my patient: The use of electronic media in patient-provider communication

Co-investigatorCIHR2011Planning Grants

Principal investigators: Rappolt, Susan G; Topolovec-Vranic, Jane

Keywords: Ethics; Healthcare Delivery; Information Technology; Occupational Therapy; Social Networking

$24,426

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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Gail Teachman

Research

Latest papers

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'Something about an app, you know?': narratives of everyday menstrual justice among trans and nonbinary people in Canada and the USA.

Femtech in context: A critical conceptual (re)view.

Representations of youth concussion "recovery" in health and rehabilitation sciences: a critical conceptual review.

Composing adult lives with a ventilator at the intersection of developmental and neoliberal discourses of time.

Exploring augmentative & alternative communication assessment practices for children with limited functional speech & motor skills: a scoping review utilizing the Participation Model of AAC

“My child is completely underestimated”: Canadian parents’ perspectives on implementing an accessible language comprehension assessment for non-speaking children with cerebral palsy

"We Live Our Life Normal": A Qualitative Analysis of Nigerian Women's Health-Seeking Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

"Passion to do the right thing": searching for the 'good' in physiotherapist practice.

From reflection to phronesis in 'good' physiotherapy practice.

"It's what we perceive as different": an interpretative phenomenological analysis of Nigerian women's characterization of their health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Beyond biomedical logics: Advancing a relational place-based account of youth concussion

Occupational possibilities and responsive behaviours: Perspectives from persons living with dementia and their formal caregivers

Engaged youth: advancing knowledge on the contributions of young people in the development of practices, policies and research that affect them

Mid-Century Melodrama: Identity, Excess, and Political Change in British Fiction

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

Examining structural ableism and its consequences for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities seeking mental health services

Reframing childhood disability: Bridging political and disciplinary boundaries to improve disabled children's lives

Beyond Giving Voice: Advancing theory and methodologies for qualitative research with children

Tweeting my patient: The use of electronic media in patient-provider communication

Frequent collaborators

Lisa McCorquodale

Yani Hamdani

Janet Martin

Helen Brown

Elysee Nouvet

Aileen Costigan

Erin McCabe

Peggy McDonough

Keiko Shikako

Patricia Tucker

Lorie Donelle

Tom Chau

Ann Fudge Schormans

Annette Majnemer