Research
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Latest papers
A Levinasian analysis of disability service providers' work witnessing documented institutional abuse.
Journal of intellectual & developmental disability · 2026 · senior author
Friendly but not friends: tying emotional labour to moral distress in disability service work
International Journal of Care and Caring · 2026 · first author
Despite all our rage: An autoethnographic analysis on the role of shared affect in dementia caregiving relationships
Social Science & Medicine · 2025 · first author
Latest funding
- $20,000
Bodies in translation: activist art, technology, and access to life
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $74,706
Recounting Huronia: An Arts-Based Participatory Research Project
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
48 publications.
A Levinasian analysis of disability service providers' work witnessing documented institutional abuse.
Rinaldi J, Rossiter K
Friendly but not friends: tying emotional labour to moral distress in disability service work
Kate Rossiter, Jen Rinaldi, Siobhán Saravanamuttu
Despite all our rage: An autoethnographic analysis on the role of shared affect in dementia caregiving relationships
Kate Rossiter
5 “I’m Not Really Here” Searching for Traces of Institutional Survivors in Their Records
Jen Rinaldi, Kate Rossiter
16 The Weight of It All: Methodological Implications to Community- Engaged Research on Violent Memory
Jen Rinaldi, Kate Rossiter, Siobhán Saravanamuttu
The Huronia Survivors Speakers Bureau: enacting a cripped feminist solidarity with intellectually disabled institutional survivors
Jen Rinaldi, Kate Rossiter, Siobhán Saravanamuttu
Introduction
Jen Rinaldi, Kate Rossiter
Introduction
Jen Rinaldi, Kate Rossiter
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Violence against Women: Intersections of Health and Justice
Kate Rossiter
Bodies in translation: activist art, technology, and access to life
Keywords: disability arts and culture; research creation and arts based methods; knowledge translation; technological innovation; accessibility and vitality
Recounting Huronia: An Arts-Based Participatory Research Project
Principal investigators: Rossiter, Kate
Keywords: Institutionalization; Intellectual disabililty; Arts-based methodologies; Participatory community research; Inclusive methodologies; Lived experience; Photovoice; Research-based theatre
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
- Maxwell Smith and Max Smith: 150 shared papers
- Katherine Rossiter and Kate Rossiter: 48 shared papers
- Ross Upshur and Maxwell Smith: 28 shared papers
- Ross Upshur and Max Smith: 28 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Pia Kontos: 21 shared papers
- Katherine Rossiter and Jen Rinaldi: 19 shared papers
- Jen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter: 19 shared papers
- Stephen Hwang and Catharine Chambers: 15 shared papers
- Pia Kontos and Julia Gray: 6 shared papers
- Ross Upshur and Pia Kontos: 5 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Julie Gilbert: 5 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Julia Gray: 5 shared papers
- Pia Kontos and Julie Gilbert: 5 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Stephen Hwang: 4 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Katherine Rossiter: 4 shared papers
- Angela Colantonio and Kate Rossiter: 4 shared papers
- Pia Kontos and Kate Rossiter: 4 shared papers
- Julie Gilbert and Katherine Rossiter: 4 shared papers
- Julie Gilbert and Kate Rossiter: 4 shared papers
- Stephen Hwang and Pia Kontos: 3 shared papers
- Julie Gilbert and Julia Gray: 3 shared papers
- Kate Rossiter and Julia Gray: 3 shared papers
- Katherine Rossiter and Rebecca Godderis: 2 shared papers
- Rebecca Godderis and Kate Rossiter: 2 shared papers
- Ross Upshur and Kate Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Cathy Risdon and Katherine Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Cathy Risdon and Kate Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Stephen Hwang and Kate Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Maxwell Smith and Katherine Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Maxwell Smith and Kate Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Catharine Chambers and Katherine Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Catharine Chambers and Kate Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Max Smith and Katherine Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Max Smith and Kate Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Katherine Rossiter and Andy Hathaway: 1 shared paper
- Andy Hathaway and Kate Rossiter: 1 shared paper
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- School of Health Studies
- Other Sociology
- Higher Education
- Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
- Munk School
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology
- Other
Co-authors at Wilfrid Laurier University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Katherine Rossiter
Other Sociology
48 shared papers, latest 2026
Jen Rinaldi
Higher Education
19 shared papers, latest 2026
Angela Colantonio
Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
4 shared papers, latest 2008
Pia Kontos
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
4 shared papers, latest 2008
Julie Gilbert
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
4 shared papers, latest 2008
Michelle Keightley
Faculty
4 shared papers, latest 2008
Julia Gray
Munk School
3 shared papers, latest 2008
Rebecca Godderis
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2020
Diego Silva
Centre for Research on Inner City Health
2 shared papers, latest 2010
Andy Hathaway
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
1 shared papers, latest 2007
Maxwell Smith
School of Health Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Cathy Risdon
Department of Family Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2008
Stephen Hwang
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Elise Roy
Family Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Ross Upshur
Earth, Environment & Society
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Catharine Chambers
Epidemiology Division
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Max Smith
School of Health Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Andrew Hathaway
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2007
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