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Debbie Laliberte Rudman

Debbie Laliberte Rudman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
5140
World Ranking
6005
National Ranking
357

Overview

Debbie Laliberte Rudman is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research spans several key fields within the social sciences and health professions, focusing extensively on occupational therapy and related disciplines.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

Subfields of specific interest consist of:

  • General Health Professions
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Demography
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Health

Their scholarly output addresses a number of topical areas, with notable attention to:

  • Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Innovative Education and Learning Practices

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Examining Community-Based Housing Models to Support Aging in Place: A Scoping Review" (2020), published in The Gerontologist
  • "Humor in rehabilitation professions: a scoping review" (2022), published in Disability and Rehabilitation
  • "Decolonising civic integration: a critical analysis of texts used in Dutch civic integration programmes" (2021), published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • "Community Health Care Workers' Experiences on Enacting Policy on Technology with Citizens with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia" (2020), published in Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
  • "Mobilizing Occupation for Social Transformation: Radical Resistance, Disruption, and Re-Configuration: Mobiliser l'occupation pour une transformation sociale: résistance radicale, perturbation et reconfiguration" (2021), published in Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

The scholar has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Occupational Science
  • Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy
  • Disability and Rehabilitation
  • Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
  • Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement

Collaborations occur regularly with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Carri Hand
  • Colleen McGrath
  • Rebecca M. Aldrich
  • Lílian Magalhães
  • Jami McFarland

In addition to journal publications, the researcher has contributed to book literature, with a notable work titled "Case studies for Social Transformation through Occupation" published by Queen Margaret University in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Shaping the active, autonomous and responsible modern retiree: an analysis of discursive technologies and their links with neo-liberal political rationality

    Debbie Laliberte Rudman

  • The use of tacit and explicit knowledge in public health: a qualitative study

    Anita Kothari;Debbie Rudman;Maureen Dobbins;Michael Rouse

  • Ageism and the Older Worker: A Scoping Review.

    Kelly Harris;Sarah Krygsman;Jessica Waschenko;Debbie Laliberte Rudman

  • Holding On and Letting Go: The Perspectives of Pre-seniors and Seniors on Driving Self-Regulation in Later Life

    Deborah Laliberte Rudman;Judith Friedland;Mary Chipman;Paola Sciortino

  • Enacting the Critical Potential of Occupational Science: Problematizing the ‘Individualizing of Occupation’

    Debbie Laliberte Rudman

  • Embodying positive aging and neoliberal rationality: Talking about the aging body within narratives of retirement.

    Debbie Laliberte Rudman

  • The performances and places of identity: Conceptualizing intersections of occupation, identity and place in the process of migration

    Suzanne Huot;Debbie Laliberte Rudman

  • Occupational terminology: Occupational possibilities

    Debbie Laliberte Rudman

  • Human occupation in contest in Enabling occupational II: Advancing an occupational therapy vision for health, well being & justice through occupation.

    H. Polatajko;C. Backman;S. Baptiste;J. Davis

  • Understanding the Potential of Occupation: A Qualitative Exploration of Seniors’ Perspectives on Activity

    Deborah Laliberte Rudman;Joanne Valiant Cook;Helene Polatajko

  • A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Uptake of Critical Perspectives in Occupational Science

    Lisette Farias;Debbie Laliberte Rudman

  • Bridging Conceptions of Quality in Moments of Qualitative Research

    Michael John Ravenek;Debbie Laliberte Rudman

  • Illustrating the Importance of Critical Epistemology to Realize the Promise of Occupational Justice.

    Lisette Farias;Debbie Laliberte Rudman;Lilian Magalhães

  • Shaping knowledge regarding occupation: examining the cultural underpinnings of the evolving concept of occupational identity.

    Deborah Laliberte Rudman;Silke Dennhardt

  • Moving Beyond 'Aging In Place' to Understand Migration and Aging: Place Making and the Centrality Of Occupation.

    Karin Johansson;Debbie Laliberte Rudman;Margarita Mondaca;Melissa Park

  • Precarity in late life: Understanding new forms of risk and insecurity.

    Amanda Grenier;Chris Phillipson;Debbie Laliberte Rudman;Stephanie Hatzifilalithis

  • Forever productive: the discursive shaping of later life workers in contemporary Canadian newspapers.

    Debbie Laliberte Rudman;Daniel Molke

  • Understanding Political Influences on Occupational Possibilities: An Analysis of Newspaper Constructions of Retirement

    Deborah Laliberte Rudman

  • Embracing and Enacting an ‘Occupational Imagination’: Occupational Science as Transformative

    Debbie Laliberte Rudman

  • A vision for occupational science: Reflecting on our disciplinary culture

    Debbie Laliberte Rudman;Silke Dennhardt;Daniel Fok;Suzanne Huot

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason A. Gilliland
Jason A. Gilliland University of Western Ontario
Andrew M. Johnson
Andrew M. Johnson University of Western Ontario
Eric A. Roy
Eric A. Roy University of Waterloo
Wendy Wood
Wendy Wood University of Southern California
Arlene Astell
Arlene Astell University of Toronto
Maureen Dobbins
Maureen Dobbins McMaster University
Anita Kothari
Anita Kothari University of Western Ontario
Chris Phillipson
Chris Phillipson University of Manchester
Nancy Edwards
Nancy Edwards University of Ottawa

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