Andrea Quinlan
Biographic Data
| ID | 252116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Quinlan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinlan |
| SIGNATURE | QUINLAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-9382-9609 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| 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…
Digital Violations: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence in Canadian Sport
Through an analysis of 91 publicly reported legal cases of technology-facilitated sexual violence against women and children in Canadian sport, this paper examines the role that digital technologies play in sexual violence in sport and the criminal legal response to it. Drawing on feminist perspectives on law, sport, and gender-based violence and Science and Technology Studies, the paper explores how digital technologies can facilitate violence w…
Caring labour and domestic violence shelter work in the Covid-19 pandemic
Caring labour has long been a key part of the labour required of domestic violence shelter workers. Under the weight of public health directives during the COVID-19 pandemic, the nature and consequences of this caring labour changed. This paper examines these shifts within the broader context of the enduring invisibility of caring labour and the depoliticization of anti-violence work, both of which began long before the COVID-19 pandemic and has …
Engendering inequities: Precariously employed academic women’s experiences of student evaluations of teaching
Grounded in intersectional feminist approaches, this study explores the equity impacts of student evaluations of teaching (SETs) on precariously employed women in the academy. Despite their overrepresentation in the academic teaching workforce, precariously employed women are a demographic group that remains underrepresented in research on SETs. Thirty-four qualitative interviews with precariously employed academic women at a university in Ontari…
The Rape Kit’s Promise: Techno-optimism in the Fight Against the Backlog
News of hundreds of thousands of untested forensic rape kits in police storage facilities and forensic labs across the United States has sparked a national dialogue about criminal justice responses to sexual assault. In a battle for more funding for forensic testing, victim advocacy organizations and activists are pointing to the necessity of rape kits for identifying and convicting sexual offenders. When tested, they argue, rape kits can ensure …
Covid-19 and the Paradox of Visibility: Domestic Violence and Feminist Caring Labor in Canadian Shelters
Visions of Public Safety, Justice, and Healing: The Making of the Rape Kit Backlog in the United States
Large backlogs of untested sexual assault kits have recently come to light in cities across the United States, fueling public controversies over criminal justice responses to sexual assault and sexual assault forensic services. This article examines these controversies to reveal how kit backlogs have come to matter as a political problem. Using a range of textual data, this article traces the history of the sexual assault kit backlog in New York …
The ‘problem’ of abuse in Ontario’s Social Inclusion Act: A critical exploration
Employing Carol Bacchi’s What’s the problem? approach, this article examines the abuse policy recently implemented through the Social Inclusion Act of Ontario, Canada’s developmental services sector (DSS), and how it constitutes sexual abuse of people with intellectual disabilities as a policy problem. Politically committed to preventing and addressing abuse, we examine how sexual abuse is ‘given shape’ in the policy and its compliance training m…
Suspect Survivors: Police Investigation Practices in Sexual Assault Cases in Ontario, Canada
Despite several decades of institutional reforms in sexual assault policing, sexual assault police investigators continue to dismiss a disproportionate number of sexual assault reports as unfounded. This article examines the policing practices behind these trends by outlining the techniques that police use to assess the credibility and truthfulness of survivors’ reports of sexual assault. Drawing on 17 semistructured interviews with sexual assaul…
Cyber Backlash and the Maintenance of Sex Segregation in Professional Sport
In 2013, Mark Cuban, the team owner of Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), announced that he would consider selecting female basketball player Brittney Griner to play for his professional men’s team. Within 24 hours after ESPN posted an online article reporting Mark Cuban’s statement, 921 online comments were posted in response. This study analyzes these comments to investigate the pervasive sexism and gender discrimina…
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…
The Rape Kit’s Promise: Techno-optimism in the Fight Against the Backlog
News of hundreds of thousands of untested forensic rape kits in police storage facilities and forensic labs across the United States has sparked a national dialogue about criminal justice responses to sexual assault. In a battle for more funding for forensic testing, victim advocacy organizations and activists are pointing to the necessity of rape kits for identifying and convicting sexual offenders. When tested, they argue, rape kits can ensure …
Visions of Public Safety, Justice, and Healing: The Making of the Rape Kit Backlog in the United States
Large backlogs of untested sexual assault kits have recently come to light in cities across the United States, fueling public controversies over criminal justice responses to sexual assault and sexual assault forensic services. This article examines these controversies to reveal how kit backlogs have come to matter as a political problem. Using a range of textual data, this article traces the history of the sexual assault kit backlog in New York …
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…
Engendering inequities: Precariously employed academic women’s experiences of student evaluations of teaching
Grounded in intersectional feminist approaches, this study explores the equity impacts of student evaluations of teaching (SETs) on precariously employed women in the academy. Despite their overrepresentation in the academic teaching workforce, precariously employed women are a demographic group that remains underrepresented in research on SETs. Thirty-four qualitative interviews with precariously employed academic women at a university in Ontari…
Covid-19 and the Paradox of Visibility: Domestic Violence and Feminist Caring Labor in Canadian Shelters
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…
Cyber Backlash and the Maintenance of Sex Segregation in Professional Sport
In 2013, Mark Cuban, the team owner of Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), announced that he would consider selecting female basketball player Brittney Griner to play for his professional men’s team. Within 24 hours after ESPN posted an online article reporting Mark Cuban’s statement, 921 online comments were posted in response. This study analyzes these comments to investigate the pervasive sexism and gender discrimina…
Suspect Survivors: Police Investigation Practices in Sexual Assault Cases in Ontario, Canada
Despite several decades of institutional reforms in sexual assault policing, sexual assault police investigators continue to dismiss a disproportionate number of sexual assault reports as unfounded. This article examines the policing practices behind these trends by outlining the techniques that police use to assess the credibility and truthfulness of survivors’ reports of sexual assault. Drawing on 17 semistructured interviews with sexual assaul…
The ‘problem’ of abuse in Ontario’s Social Inclusion Act: A critical exploration
Employing Carol Bacchi’s What’s the problem? approach, this article examines the abuse policy recently implemented through the Social Inclusion Act of Ontario, Canada’s developmental services sector (DSS), and how it constitutes sexual abuse of people with intellectual disabilities as a policy problem. Politically committed to preventing and addressing abuse, we examine how sexual abuse is ‘given shape’ in the policy and its compliance training m…
Visions of Public Safety, Justice, and Healing: The Making of the Rape Kit Backlog in the United States
Large backlogs of untested sexual assault kits have recently come to light in cities across the United States, fueling public controversies over criminal justice responses to sexual assault and sexual assault forensic services. This article examines these controversies to reveal how kit backlogs have come to matter as a political problem. Using a range of textual data, this article traces the history of the sexual assault kit backlog in New York …
The Rape Kit’s Promise: Techno-optimism in the Fight Against the Backlog
News of hundreds of thousands of untested forensic rape kits in police storage facilities and forensic labs across the United States has sparked a national dialogue about criminal justice responses to sexual assault. In a battle for more funding for forensic testing, victim advocacy organizations and activists are pointing to the necessity of rape kits for identifying and convicting sexual offenders. When tested, they argue, rape kits can ensure …
Covid-19 and the Paradox of Visibility: Domestic Violence and Feminist Caring Labor in Canadian Shelters
Engendering inequities: Precariously employed academic women’s experiences of student evaluations of teaching
Grounded in intersectional feminist approaches, this study explores the equity impacts of student evaluations of teaching (SETs) on precariously employed women in the academy. Despite their overrepresentation in the academic teaching workforce, precariously employed women are a demographic group that remains underrepresented in research on SETs. Thirty-four qualitative interviews with precariously employed academic women at a university in Ontari…
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…
Digital Violations: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence in Canadian Sport
Through an analysis of 91 publicly reported legal cases of technology-facilitated sexual violence against women and children in Canadian sport, this paper examines the role that digital technologies play in sexual violence in sport and the criminal legal response to it. Drawing on feminist perspectives on law, sport, and gender-based violence and Science and Technology Studies, the paper explores how digital technologies can facilitate violence w…
Caring labour and domestic violence shelter work in the Covid-19 pandemic
Caring labour has long been a key part of the labour required of domestic violence shelter workers. Under the weight of public health directives during the COVID-19 pandemic, the nature and consequences of this caring labour changed. This paper examines these shifts within the broader context of the enduring invisibility of caring labour and the depoliticization of anti-violence work, both of which began long before the COVID-19 pandemic and has …
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Medical emergency (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sexual assault (4 works)