Bridget Livingstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 283900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bridget Livingstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bridget |
| FAMILY NAME | Livingstone |
| SIGNATURE | LIVINGSTONE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Scholar, Comox |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-0438-2157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“The Paradigm Shift Is Happening Without Them”
The concept of neurodiversity poses a challenge to service providers, urging them to shift away from pathologizing frameworks and exclusionary notions of expertise. More research is needed on how to build upon the concept of neurodiversity to improve direct practice with neurodivergent individuals and communities. This paper presents findings from interviews with 60 differently positioned people in Southern Ontario, Canada, about how they used th…
On thin ICE
“The refusal to fit into boxes”
What do people with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) think about neurodiversity? How does it affect what they do? While a burgeoning body of scholarship has examined the concept of neurodiversity, this work has often restricted its focus to autism, or addressed more general ideas about neurodivergence. Little existing research explores what neurodiversity means to people with ADHD. This paper presents a subset of findings from a mu…
Teaching Resistance
LGBTQ+ Parents' Care and Work Arrangements During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Existing research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parents' care and work responsibilities has largely ignored the experiences of LGBTQ+ parents. Most gender divisions of labor studies have actively excluded LGBTQ+ parents and/or failed to ask about parents' sexuality. This mixed-methods study used a combination of an online survey (n = 4683, 350 identifying as non-heterosexual) and virtual interviews (9 interviews with 14 parents) in co…
Observing Neurodiversity, Observing Methodology
Ethnographic researchers have long relied upon observation as a powerful means to learn about social relations. This paper discusses research observation that was conducted as a part of an institutional ethnography (IE) investigating how people use the language and ideas of neurodiversity across different settings. While our research protocol initially called for ethnographic observation to take place at in-person events in Southern Ontario, our …
Weighing In
Neurodiversity as a concept, identity, and movement has radically challenged pre-existing ideas of human difference and value. First proposed by Judy Singer (1998) and largely developed through the work of community activists, neurodiversity posits an alternative to pathologizing and medicalized understandings of human differences. This article explores the ways neurodiversity is being used, defined, and deployed based on a corpus of 94 academic …
Weighing In
Neurodiversity as a concept, identity, and movement has radically challenged pre-existing ideas of human difference and value. First proposed by Judy Singer (1998) and largely developed through the work of community activists, neurodiversity posits an alternative to pathologizing and medicalized understandings of human differences. This article explores the ways neurodiversity is being used, defined, and deployed based on a corpus of 94 academic …
Weighing In
Neurodiversity as a concept, identity, and movement has radically challenged pre-existing ideas of human difference and value. First proposed by Judy Singer (1998) and largely developed through the work of community activists, neurodiversity posits an alternative to pathologizing and medicalized understandings of human differences. This article explores the ways neurodiversity is being used, defined, and deployed based on a corpus of 94 academic …
Observing Neurodiversity, Observing Methodology
Ethnographic researchers have long relied upon observation as a powerful means to learn about social relations. This paper discusses research observation that was conducted as a part of an institutional ethnography (IE) investigating how people use the language and ideas of neurodiversity across different settings. While our research protocol initially called for ethnographic observation to take place at in-person events in Southern Ontario, our …
“The refusal to fit into boxes”
What do people with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) think about neurodiversity? How does it affect what they do? While a burgeoning body of scholarship has examined the concept of neurodiversity, this work has often restricted its focus to autism, or addressed more general ideas about neurodivergence. Little existing research explores what neurodiversity means to people with ADHD. This paper presents a subset of findings from a mu…
Teaching Resistance
LGBTQ+ Parents' Care and Work Arrangements During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Existing research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parents' care and work responsibilities has largely ignored the experiences of LGBTQ+ parents. Most gender divisions of labor studies have actively excluded LGBTQ+ parents and/or failed to ask about parents' sexuality. This mixed-methods study used a combination of an online survey (n = 4683, 350 identifying as non-heterosexual) and virtual interviews (9 interviews with 14 parents) in co…
“The Paradigm Shift Is Happening Without Them”
The concept of neurodiversity poses a challenge to service providers, urging them to shift away from pathologizing frameworks and exclusionary notions of expertise. More research is needed on how to build upon the concept of neurodiversity to improve direct practice with neurodivergent individuals and communities. This paper presents findings from interviews with 60 differently positioned people in Southern Ontario, Canada, about how they used th…
On thin ICE
Work (physics (3 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (2 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (2 works) · Pandemic (2 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)