Faculty
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E. Anne Hughson, PhD (Director/Associate Professor)
Areas of interest include creating mutual support groups,
supporting survivors of sexual abuse, issues of violence
and women with disability and leadership development.
[more info] [email] [location: EDT 408] [phone: (403)220-6273]
Faculty (Listed Alphabetically) & Research Interests
Susan Cran | Patti DesJardine | Carla Hamarsnes | Nancy Marlett | Aldred Neufeldt | Beth Parrott | Pat Winter | Gregor Wolbring
Susan Cran, MEd (Instructor/Graduate Specialization Coordinator)
Areas of interest include professional certification, rehabilitation
management, career issues and disability.
[more info] [email] [location: EDT 418] [phone: (403)220-5669]
Patti DesJardine (Practicum Coordinator/Sessional Instructor)
Patti's area of interets are in special education, particularly children
with multiple and complex needs, human rights for children with special
needs and the family experience of raising children with special needs.
[more info] [email] [location: EDT 410] [phone: (403)220-2416]
Carla Hamarsnes, MEd (Sessional Instructor)
Areas of interest include aging/gerontology, informal supports,
community development and value-based training.
Nancy Marlett, PhD (Associate Professor)
Research and publications have looked at the effects that
systems, assessment treatment methods, and professional
roles have on the lives of persons with disabling conditions.
Dr. Marlett continues to research computer telecommunications
and adult education.
[more info] [email] [location: EDT 406] [phone: (403)220-5657]
Aldred Neufeldt, PhD (Professor Emeritus)
Areas of Interest: Disability Studies,
Community Rehabilitation,
Community Service Systems,
Mental Health Service Systems,
Entrepreneurship and Disabled Person,
Employment and Disability,
Human Rights,
System and Organizational Change and Transformation,
International Affairs: Middle East and Russia,
Trauma Response,
Aging and Disability
[more
info] [email] [location: EDT 412] [phone: (403)220-4980]
Beth Parrott, MSc (Instructor/Undergraduate Student Advisor)
Areas of interest include professional practice, children
with special needs, rehabilitation management, and reflective
practice.
[more info] [email] [location: EDT 414] [phone: (403)220-2271]
Pat Winter (Instructor)
Areas of interest: Policy affecting people with disabilities, poverty,
professional ethics, seniors and disability across the lifespan.
Gregor Wolbring , PhD (Assistant Professor)
Key Interests: Ability governance, Social, ethical, legal, economic, cultural and governance issues of new, emerging and converging sciences and technologies (S&T) such as nanoscale S&T (feed, food, water), molecular manufacturing, aging, longevity and immortality research, cognitive sciences, neuromorphic engineering, genetics, synthetic biology, bodily enhancement S&T, in vitro meat, artificial intelligence and robotics; Impact of S&T on: marginalized populations especially disabled people; Sports; human security, human right, personhood, sentient rights; concept of disability impairment, ableism and transhumanism; models and determinants of health; global health, tele-health, health- (technology assessment, law, care and policies); medical anthropology; foresight studies, bioethics issues, role of different stakeholders and evaluation of existing S&T discourses.
