Elizabeth Quinlan
Biographic Data
| ID | 122091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Quinlan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinlan |
| SIGNATURE | QUINLAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0267-0414 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Harnessing the Power of Online Participatory Theatre: Activist Allyship and Sexual Violence on Canadian Campuses
Scholarly discussions about online research techniques have yet to fully consider their value in light of the growing right-wing authoritarianism and attacks on gender equity. This is particularly true for Participatory Action Research methods that rely on embodied action, collective emotional energy, and interaction. This paper examines the use of Participatory Theatre, a Participatory Action Research methodology that employs applied theatre tec…
A critical realist exploration of harassment in platform work
Henry Orenstein's Mine Mill Local 598 (1956): A Correction and Reproduction
Making Space for Creativity: Cultural Initiatives of Sudbury’s Mine-Mill Local 598 in the Postwar Era
Perceptual Learning: Policy Insights From Basic Research to Real-World Applications
Perceptual learning is the process by which experience alters how incoming sensory information is processed by the brain to give rise to behavior—it is critical for how humans educate children, train experts, treat diseases, and promote health and well-being throughout the lifespan. Knowledge of perceptual learning requires basic and applied research in humans and nonhuman animal models, which informs strategic targets for advancing applications.…
Staging Labor Renewal: An Application of the Theory of Interaction Rituals
Once thought to be the only genuinely revolutionary force, the labor movement is in retreat worldwide. By way of example, this article argues that by reawakening our human capacity for solidaristic relationships, theatrical plays are one means of revitalizing the labor movement. This article uses the theory of interaction rituals to analyze a dramatic production that follows in the tradition of the workers' theater movement. The play focuses on t…
Workplace Harassment Interventions and Labour Process Theory: A Critical Realist Synthesis of the Literature
Workplace harassment, from a labour process theoretic perspective, is a consequence of the convergence of several historical trends that affect the way work is organized under contemporary capitalism. On this view, interventions such as communication skills training, complaint procedures, and workplace policies have limited chance of eliminating harassment in the workplace. However, there is minimal research identifying, testing, and refining the…
Ameliorating Workplace Harassment among Direct Caregivers in Canada's Healthcare System: A Theatre-Based Intervention
The article reports on a theatre-based intervention designed to address workplace harassment among direct caregivers in Canada. The study is part of a larger analytical project that relies on labour process theory and critical realist evaluation methodology to understand what interventions work, how, for whom, and under what circumstances. Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, the reported intervention addresses workplace harassment by chall…
Caring for cancer survivors with the popular expressive arts
Research has demonstrated considerable health benefits derived from incorporating the arts in health care. Yet, the process of translating research knowledge into clinical practice requires a sensitive understanding of the practice context. In this article, we consider the challenges to clinicians’ integration of the popular, expressive art forms into their practice. We assess these art forms for their potential value for the health and well-bein…
Potentials for cancer survivors: Experimentation with the popular expressive arts of drumming, mask-making and voice activation
The Creative Practices for People with Cancer is a research team experimenting with the popular arts for purpose of improving survivors’ quality of life. Popular expressive art forms (e.g. drumming and mask-making) are assessed for their potential value for cancer survivors via surveyed team members and a “sculpting” session. Two themes, social cohesion and new self-identities, emerged from the team’s experimentation with the popular, expressive …
Not for the faint of heart: Insider and outsider shadowing experiences within Canadian health care organizations
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to share two researcher's experience about the challenges associated with shadowing within the health care context. Design/methodology/approach – Institutional ethnography and shadowing. Findings – Shadowing is increasingly being used as a data collection method, however, before proceeding to use this approach in today's health care environment, the researcher must give thoughtful consideration to the contex…
The aesthetic rationality of the popular expressive arts: Lifeworld communication among breast cancer survivors living with lymphedema
The use of popular expressive arts as antidotes to the pathologies of the parallel processes of lifeworld colonization and cultural impoverishment has been under-theorized. This article enters the void with a project in which breast cancer survivors used collages and installations of everyday objects to solicit their authentic expression of the psycho-social impacts of lymphedema. The article enlists Jurgen Habermas' communicative action theory t…
Breast Cancer Survivorship and Work Disability
Breast cancer survivors can anticipate a number of years of paid labor market participation. Therefore, the link between breast cancer survivorship and productivity deserves serious consideration. The hypothesis guiding this study is that arm disability, particularly pain and range of motion limitations, are important explanatory variables in survivors’ loss of productivity. The study investigates the association between productivity and arm disa…
Representations of Rape: Transcending Methodological Divides
This article presents a mixed methods research design that embeds social network analysis, a quantitative method, into the qualitative approach, institutional ethnography, using an illustrative example of rape reporting. There are two practical outcomes of the embedded mixed methods research design, underwritten by the pragmatist paradigm: it offers a visual depiction of the ‘line of fault’ between the lived experience and its institutional repre…
Modelling Dimensions of 'the Social' in Knowledge Teams: An Operationalisation of Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action
The introduction of knowledge teams, as a new form of work organisation, is one of many institutional transformations associated with the knowledge economy. The research on the effects of this new form of work organisation on the social processes by which knowledge workers exchange, create, and apply knowledge is limited. The research that does exist uses various communication theories to explain the social interactions within knowledge teams. We…
Breaking the fourth wall”: Activating hope through participatory theatre with family caregivers
New action research techniques: Using Participatory Theatre with health care workers
The use of various creative art forms in the research process is reflective of the turn towards interpretative practices that make visible certain aspects of the social world. Theatre, especially, has the capacity to convey meanings that pertain to the flux of social relationships. Reported in this paper is a particular use of theatre that is located in a history and tradition of liberatory social action. In Participatory Theatre, performative en…
The 'actualities' of knowledge work: An Institutional Ethnography of Multi-Disciplinary Primary Health Care Teams
This study is set against the backdrop of the evolving order of a health care system in a province implementing a set of concurrent reforms. The study investigates how 'knowledge work' of multi-disciplinary health care teams is actually done and how it is co-ordinated across sites. Knowledge work involves three processes: the creation of new knowledge during the transfer of knowledge, in the context of the application of knowledge to their collec…
Women’s job‐related training in Canada: Returns to human capital investments
The prevailing discourse informing most Canadian training and labour market policy assumes a positive link between individuals’ training and their labour market returns in the new knowledge economy. The primary objective of the study is to test the current rhetoric by developing a statistical model of women’s job‐related training. Training participation is a complex and multi‐dimensional social phenomenon. Within the arsenal of existing statistic…
Conspicuous Invisibility: Shadowing as a Data Collection Strategy
Shadowing entails a researcher closely following a subject over a period of time to investigate what people actually do in the course of their everyday lives, not what their roles dictate of them. Behaviors, opinions, actions, and explanations for those actions are reflected in the resulting thick, descriptive data. There is little written that describes the uses of shadowing as a data collection strategy; this article sets out to respond to this…
Conspicuous Invisibility: Shadowing as a Data Collection Strategy
Shadowing entails a researcher closely following a subject over a period of time to investigate what people actually do in the course of their everyday lives, not what their roles dictate of them. Behaviors, opinions, actions, and explanations for those actions are reflected in the resulting thick, descriptive data. There is little written that describes the uses of shadowing as a data collection strategy; this article sets out to respond to this…
The 'actualities' of knowledge work: An Institutional Ethnography of Multi-Disciplinary Primary Health Care Teams
This study is set against the backdrop of the evolving order of a health care system in a province implementing a set of concurrent reforms. The study investigates how 'knowledge work' of multi-disciplinary health care teams is actually done and how it is co-ordinated across sites. Knowledge work involves three processes: the creation of new knowledge during the transfer of knowledge, in the context of the application of knowledge to their collec…
New action research techniques: Using Participatory Theatre with health care workers
The use of various creative art forms in the research process is reflective of the turn towards interpretative practices that make visible certain aspects of the social world. Theatre, especially, has the capacity to convey meanings that pertain to the flux of social relationships. Reported in this paper is a particular use of theatre that is located in a history and tradition of liberatory social action. In Participatory Theatre, performative en…
Representations of Rape: Transcending Methodological Divides
This article presents a mixed methods research design that embeds social network analysis, a quantitative method, into the qualitative approach, institutional ethnography, using an illustrative example of rape reporting. There are two practical outcomes of the embedded mixed methods research design, underwritten by the pragmatist paradigm: it offers a visual depiction of the ‘line of fault’ between the lived experience and its institutional repre…
Workplace Harassment Interventions and Labour Process Theory: A Critical Realist Synthesis of the Literature
Workplace harassment, from a labour process theoretic perspective, is a consequence of the convergence of several historical trends that affect the way work is organized under contemporary capitalism. On this view, interventions such as communication skills training, complaint procedures, and workplace policies have limited chance of eliminating harassment in the workplace. However, there is minimal research identifying, testing, and refining the…
Ameliorating Workplace Harassment among Direct Caregivers in Canada's Healthcare System: A Theatre-Based Intervention
The article reports on a theatre-based intervention designed to address workplace harassment among direct caregivers in Canada. The study is part of a larger analytical project that relies on labour process theory and critical realist evaluation methodology to understand what interventions work, how, for whom, and under what circumstances. Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, the reported intervention addresses workplace harassment by chall…
The aesthetic rationality of the popular expressive arts: Lifeworld communication among breast cancer survivors living with lymphedema
The use of popular expressive arts as antidotes to the pathologies of the parallel processes of lifeworld colonization and cultural impoverishment has been under-theorized. This article enters the void with a project in which breast cancer survivors used collages and installations of everyday objects to solicit their authentic expression of the psycho-social impacts of lymphedema. The article enlists Jurgen Habermas' communicative action theory t…
Modelling Dimensions of 'the Social' in Knowledge Teams: An Operationalisation of Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action
The introduction of knowledge teams, as a new form of work organisation, is one of many institutional transformations associated with the knowledge economy. The research on the effects of this new form of work organisation on the social processes by which knowledge workers exchange, create, and apply knowledge is limited. The research that does exist uses various communication theories to explain the social interactions within knowledge teams. We…
Women’s job‐related training in Canada: Returns to human capital investments
The prevailing discourse informing most Canadian training and labour market policy assumes a positive link between individuals’ training and their labour market returns in the new knowledge economy. The primary objective of the study is to test the current rhetoric by developing a statistical model of women’s job‐related training. Training participation is a complex and multi‐dimensional social phenomenon. Within the arsenal of existing statistic…
Women’s job‐related training in Canada: Returns to human capital investments
The prevailing discourse informing most Canadian training and labour market policy assumes a positive link between individuals’ training and their labour market returns in the new knowledge economy. The primary objective of the study is to test the current rhetoric by developing a statistical model of women’s job‐related training. Training participation is a complex and multi‐dimensional social phenomenon. Within the arsenal of existing statistic…
Conspicuous Invisibility: Shadowing as a Data Collection Strategy
Shadowing entails a researcher closely following a subject over a period of time to investigate what people actually do in the course of their everyday lives, not what their roles dictate of them. Behaviors, opinions, actions, and explanations for those actions are reflected in the resulting thick, descriptive data. There is little written that describes the uses of shadowing as a data collection strategy; this article sets out to respond to this…
Breaking the fourth wall”: Activating hope through participatory theatre with family caregivers
New action research techniques: Using Participatory Theatre with health care workers
The use of various creative art forms in the research process is reflective of the turn towards interpretative practices that make visible certain aspects of the social world. Theatre, especially, has the capacity to convey meanings that pertain to the flux of social relationships. Reported in this paper is a particular use of theatre that is located in a history and tradition of liberatory social action. In Participatory Theatre, performative en…
The 'actualities' of knowledge work: An Institutional Ethnography of Multi-Disciplinary Primary Health Care Teams
This study is set against the backdrop of the evolving order of a health care system in a province implementing a set of concurrent reforms. The study investigates how 'knowledge work' of multi-disciplinary health care teams is actually done and how it is co-ordinated across sites. Knowledge work involves three processes: the creation of new knowledge during the transfer of knowledge, in the context of the application of knowledge to their collec…
Representations of Rape: Transcending Methodological Divides
This article presents a mixed methods research design that embeds social network analysis, a quantitative method, into the qualitative approach, institutional ethnography, using an illustrative example of rape reporting. There are two practical outcomes of the embedded mixed methods research design, underwritten by the pragmatist paradigm: it offers a visual depiction of the ‘line of fault’ between the lived experience and its institutional repre…
Modelling Dimensions of 'the Social' in Knowledge Teams: An Operationalisation of Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action
The introduction of knowledge teams, as a new form of work organisation, is one of many institutional transformations associated with the knowledge economy. The research on the effects of this new form of work organisation on the social processes by which knowledge workers exchange, create, and apply knowledge is limited. The research that does exist uses various communication theories to explain the social interactions within knowledge teams. We…
Breast Cancer Survivorship and Work Disability
Breast cancer survivors can anticipate a number of years of paid labor market participation. Therefore, the link between breast cancer survivorship and productivity deserves serious consideration. The hypothesis guiding this study is that arm disability, particularly pain and range of motion limitations, are important explanatory variables in survivors’ loss of productivity. The study investigates the association between productivity and arm disa…
Not for the faint of heart: Insider and outsider shadowing experiences within Canadian health care organizations
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to share two researcher's experience about the challenges associated with shadowing within the health care context. Design/methodology/approach – Institutional ethnography and shadowing. Findings – Shadowing is increasingly being used as a data collection method, however, before proceeding to use this approach in today's health care environment, the researcher must give thoughtful consideration to the contex…
The aesthetic rationality of the popular expressive arts: Lifeworld communication among breast cancer survivors living with lymphedema
The use of popular expressive arts as antidotes to the pathologies of the parallel processes of lifeworld colonization and cultural impoverishment has been under-theorized. This article enters the void with a project in which breast cancer survivors used collages and installations of everyday objects to solicit their authentic expression of the psycho-social impacts of lymphedema. The article enlists Jurgen Habermas' communicative action theory t…
Potentials for cancer survivors: Experimentation with the popular expressive arts of drumming, mask-making and voice activation
The Creative Practices for People with Cancer is a research team experimenting with the popular arts for purpose of improving survivors’ quality of life. Popular expressive art forms (e.g. drumming and mask-making) are assessed for their potential value for cancer survivors via surveyed team members and a “sculpting” session. Two themes, social cohesion and new self-identities, emerged from the team’s experimentation with the popular, expressive …
Caring for cancer survivors with the popular expressive arts
Research has demonstrated considerable health benefits derived from incorporating the arts in health care. Yet, the process of translating research knowledge into clinical practice requires a sensitive understanding of the practice context. In this article, we consider the challenges to clinicians’ integration of the popular, expressive art forms into their practice. We assess these art forms for their potential value for the health and well-bein…
Staging Labor Renewal: An Application of the Theory of Interaction Rituals
Once thought to be the only genuinely revolutionary force, the labor movement is in retreat worldwide. By way of example, this article argues that by reawakening our human capacity for solidaristic relationships, theatrical plays are one means of revitalizing the labor movement. This article uses the theory of interaction rituals to analyze a dramatic production that follows in the tradition of the workers' theater movement. The play focuses on t…
Workplace Harassment Interventions and Labour Process Theory: A Critical Realist Synthesis of the Literature
Workplace harassment, from a labour process theoretic perspective, is a consequence of the convergence of several historical trends that affect the way work is organized under contemporary capitalism. On this view, interventions such as communication skills training, complaint procedures, and workplace policies have limited chance of eliminating harassment in the workplace. However, there is minimal research identifying, testing, and refining the…
Ameliorating Workplace Harassment among Direct Caregivers in Canada's Healthcare System: A Theatre-Based Intervention
The article reports on a theatre-based intervention designed to address workplace harassment among direct caregivers in Canada. The study is part of a larger analytical project that relies on labour process theory and critical realist evaluation methodology to understand what interventions work, how, for whom, and under what circumstances. Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, the reported intervention addresses workplace harassment by chall…
Perceptual Learning: Policy Insights From Basic Research to Real-World Applications
Perceptual learning is the process by which experience alters how incoming sensory information is processed by the brain to give rise to behavior—it is critical for how humans educate children, train experts, treat diseases, and promote health and well-being throughout the lifespan. Knowledge of perceptual learning requires basic and applied research in humans and nonhuman animal models, which informs strategic targets for advancing applications.…
Making Space for Creativity: Cultural Initiatives of Sudbury’s Mine-Mill Local 598 in the Postwar Era
A critical realist exploration of harassment in platform work
Henry Orenstein's Mine Mill Local 598 (1956): A Correction and Reproduction
Harnessing the Power of Online Participatory Theatre: Activist Allyship and Sexual Violence on Canadian Campuses
Scholarly discussions about online research techniques have yet to fully consider their value in light of the growing right-wing authoritarianism and attacks on gender equity. This is particularly true for Participatory Action Research methods that rely on embodied action, collective emotional energy, and interaction. This paper examines the use of Participatory Theatre, a Participatory Action Research methodology that employs applied theatre tec…
Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)