Christine Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3316-3258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Mixed Methods Exploration of Staff Interpretations of the Frequency and Forms of Violence in Long-Term Care
Background and Objective: In this article, we explore how Long-Term Residential Care (LTRC) features contribute to violence against staff. Methods: Data were collected using a mixed-methods case study in LTRC, including an online survey (N = 240) and interviews with staff (N = 29) in two Canadian provinces. Findings: Survey data showed 97.2% of staff reported experiencing at least one form of violence from residents, and 53.2% experienced one or …
“Kind of backed into this corner
Violence in long-term residential care (LTRC) is primarily directed at women who make up a disproportionate share of residents and staff, yet gender has been relatively understudied and undertheorized in research on violence in this setting. In this paper we draw together the concept of gender structure and Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and field to explore staff perspectives on violent situations and learn about gendered power dynamics i…
Research on Abuse in Home Care
Home care is the preferred care option for most people who need support; yet abuse exists in these settings toward both home care workers and clients. There are no existing reviews that assess the scope of current research on abuse in home care, and tangentially related reviews are dated. For these reasons, a scoping review is warranted to map the current state of research on abuse in home care and examine current interventions in this field. Dat…
Wages or Legitimacy? A Qualitative Analysis of Home Care Worker Perspectives in Choosing Work Settings
Directly-Funded (DF) home care allows users to organize and purchase their own care services and is expanding globally. Little is known about the career pathways of home care workers. Our study asks, what experiences and factors do home care workers consider when choosing a work setting? And, specifically, what influences their decisions to work directly for their clients? Framed with Cranford's (2020) flexibility-security matrix for analyzing ho…
Breast (female), colorectal, and lung cancer survival in people with intellectual or developmental disabilities
Exploring space and practices of control in long-term residential care violence prevention strategies
Long-Term Care Homes
This article explores whether isolation and control observed during COVID-19 are a pandemic effect or a perpetual socio-spatial feature of long-term care (LTC) culture. We use narrative analysis to foreground the experiences of two women with dementia trying to leave LTC: one before and the other during the pandemic. Using the lens of affective citizenship, we argue that the spatial experiences of confinement for people living in LTC are routinel…
Participatory Evaluation of a Direct Payment Program for Equity in Dementia Care in Nova Scotia, Canada
Nova Scotia's Supportive Care Program (SCP) is an individualized funding program that provides funds for people living with dementia (PLWD) or acquired brain injuries to purchase basic home care services such as personal care, respite, cleaning and cooking. The SCP has the potential to address the Quintuple Aim of enhancing care experience, improving population health, reducing costs, improving provider experience and improving health equity, yet…
Intersectionality, health equity, and EDI
Many countries adopted comprehensive national initiatives to promote equity in higher education with the goal of transforming the culture of research. Major health research funders are supporting this work through calls for projects that focus on equity, resulting in a proliferation of theoretical frameworks including "intersectionality," "health equity," and variations of equity, diversity and inclusion, or EDI. This commentary is geared at indi…
None of it was especially easy”
Meaningful engagement with people living with disabilities in immunization program planning would help ensure that people with disabilities, who already face significant challenges due to COVID-19, are offered the same protections as the rest of the population. These recommendations could be easily transferred to the administration of other large-scale immunization campaigns (e.g., influenza vaccines)
Renovations of a Long-Term Care Center for Residents with Advanced Dementia—Impact on Residents and Staff
The long-term care environments in which older persons with dementia live could have an effect on residents and staff. The purpose of this study was to evaluate renovations to a long-term care center for individuals with advanced dementia using a multi-method approach. Renovations included lighting, design elements to reduce noise, and exit-seeking behaviors, along with attempting to create a more home-like environment through smaller dining spac…
Beyond Measure? Disability Art, Affect and Reimagining Visitor Experience
Disability, mad and d/Deaf arts are motivated to transform the arts sector and beyond in ways that foreground differing embodiments. But how do we know if such arts-based interventions are actually disrupting conventional ways of experiencing and consuming art? This article presents three themes from a critical literature review relevant to curating and creating artwork meant to spur social change related to non-normative bodies. We highlight exa…
A Team-Based Comparative Case Study of Violence Across Care Settings for Older Adults in Two Canadian Provinces
Violence can lead to physical and psychological harm, emotional exhaustion, and burnout for paid and unpaid carers. Concomitantly, being regarded as violent, aggressive, or difficult can have a direct impact on older adults' sense of self, care relationships, and quality of care. Current research on violence and aging lacks systemic understanding of the environments and multi-level factors that precipitate or inhibit violent interactions across s…
Home Care Fault Lines
Doing ‘whatever they can imagine’
Directly funded home care provides funds to individuals to arrange their own services. We ask, what is unique about being a directly funded home care worker? Our qualitative case study in Manitoba, Canada, included an online survey of 95 directly funded workers and interviews with 13 key informants, 24 clients and/or family managers, and 23 workers. Framed by feminist and disability care theories, we found ‘social task shifting’, that is: work th…
Questioning “choice”
In many developed contexts, home-care services have been overhauled with the intent of increasing control and flexibility for those using social and health services. This change is associated with providing funds directly to individuals, and sometimes their families and supports, to arrange at home-care assistance with the activities of daily living. Directly funded home-care programs, or "direct funding" (DF), are not value-neutral policy interv…
Care and violence through the lens of personal support workers
Using a grounded theory approach, this article contends that violence should be considered a part of, rather than in opposition to, care. This conceptualisation is empirically supported by themes from a qualitative study of personal support worker education in Ontario, Canada: one on violence against workers; another on abuse; and a third on sentimental motivations. This article demonstrates the tensions of care: that it can be at once violent an…
A future for disability
Exploring experiences of Personal Support Worker education in Ontario, Canada
There is growing attention to the training and education of Personal Support Workers, or PSWs, who work in community, home and long-term care settings supporting older people and people with disabilities. In Ontario, Canada, amid a volatile policy landscape, the provincial government launched an effort to standardise PSW education. Using qualitative methods, this study considered the question: What are the central educational issues reflected by …
Disability Politics and Care
Disability Politics and Care examines a provincial direct-funding program to illuminate what happens when people with disabilities take control of their own care arrangements. In addition to investigating responses from a wide range of stakeholders, Christine Kelly reflects on the broader social and political implications of these types of programs. She probes the divide that exists between rejections of care by disability activists, on the one h…
Mobilizing Metaphor
Adversarial Allies
Professional encounters bestow moral esteem upon professional helpers while denigrating those who access services. Yet society is arranged in such a way that professional services are indispensable for many to survive, and service users can experience them as simultaneously helpful and oppressive. We explore the ambivalent figure of the professional “adversarial ally” working within these systems through accounts from two research studies that st…
Organizing survival and resistance in austere times
Following the 2008 financial crisis, all levels of Canadian government implemented austerity measures that dramatically restructured welfare, employment, and social service infrastructures. This has significantly affected how disabled people access services. We argue that this restructuring has been an impetus for new forms of disability activism and care politics in Ontario as disabled people fight for services necessary for survival. We discuss…
Re/Moving Care from the Ontario Direct Funding Program
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2014
The Youth Activist Forum
As with many movements operating in neoliberal regimes, Canadian disability movements struggle to maintain momentum and engage youth leadership. Drawing on feminist disability studies, this article presents the findings of a participatory research project on the Youth Activist Forum, an event which brought together 38 youth with and without disabilities to meet new and established leaders with disabilities. We argue that the process of planning, …
Building Bridges with Accessible Care
This article uses elements of autoethnography to theorize an in/formal support relationship between a friend with a physical disability, who uses attendant services, and me. Through thinking about our particular “frien‐tendant” relationship, I find the common scholarly orientations toward “care” are inadequate. Starting from the conversations between feminist and disability perspectives on care, I build on previous work to further develop the the…
Organizing survival and resistance in austere times
Following the 2008 financial crisis, all levels of Canadian government implemented austerity measures that dramatically restructured welfare, employment, and social service infrastructures. This has significantly affected how disabled people access services. We argue that this restructuring has been an impetus for new forms of disability activism and care politics in Ontario as disabled people fight for services necessary for survival. We discuss…
None of it was especially easy”
Meaningful engagement with people living with disabilities in immunization program planning would help ensure that people with disabilities, who already face significant challenges due to COVID-19, are offered the same protections as the rest of the population. These recommendations could be easily transferred to the administration of other large-scale immunization campaigns (e.g., influenza vaccines)
Making ‘care’ accessible
Disability scholars and activists argue that ‘care’ is a complex form of oppression and reject it as a term and concept. I explore the possibility of salvaging care from its oppressive medical and charitable legacies through a discussion of personal assistance. While not arguing for a return to terming personal assistance ‘care’, I argue care can be made accessible in policies and discussions of attendant services and in more general discussions …
The role of mandates/philosophies in shaping interactions between disabled people and their support providers
Support provision is a personal and important element of daily life for many disabled people. This study examines the ways in which organisational mandates and philosophies shape interactions between disabled people and support providers at two unique organisations in Winnipeg, Canada: a L’Arche community for people with intellectual disabilities and an Independent Living Resource Centre. Data was collected through semi‐structured interviews with…
Adversarial Allies
Professional encounters bestow moral esteem upon professional helpers while denigrating those who access services. Yet society is arranged in such a way that professional services are indispensable for many to survive, and service users can experience them as simultaneously helpful and oppressive. We explore the ambivalent figure of the professional “adversarial ally” working within these systems through accounts from two research studies that st…
Re/Moving Care from the Ontario Direct Funding Program
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2014
The Youth Activist Forum
As with many movements operating in neoliberal regimes, Canadian disability movements struggle to maintain momentum and engage youth leadership. Drawing on feminist disability studies, this article presents the findings of a participatory research project on the Youth Activist Forum, an event which brought together 38 youth with and without disabilities to meet new and established leaders with disabilities. We argue that the process of planning, …
Long-Term Care Homes
This article explores whether isolation and control observed during COVID-19 are a pandemic effect or a perpetual socio-spatial feature of long-term care (LTC) culture. We use narrative analysis to foreground the experiences of two women with dementia trying to leave LTC: one before and the other during the pandemic. Using the lens of affective citizenship, we argue that the spatial experiences of confinement for people living in LTC are routinel…
Doing ‘whatever they can imagine’
Directly funded home care provides funds to individuals to arrange their own services. We ask, what is unique about being a directly funded home care worker? Our qualitative case study in Manitoba, Canada, included an online survey of 95 directly funded workers and interviews with 13 key informants, 24 clients and/or family managers, and 23 workers. Framed by feminist and disability care theories, we found ‘social task shifting’, that is: work th…
Care and violence through the lens of personal support workers
Using a grounded theory approach, this article contends that violence should be considered a part of, rather than in opposition to, care. This conceptualisation is empirically supported by themes from a qualitative study of personal support worker education in Ontario, Canada: one on violence against workers; another on abuse; and a third on sentimental motivations. This article demonstrates the tensions of care: that it can be at once violent an…
Exploring experiences of Personal Support Worker education in Ontario, Canada
There is growing attention to the training and education of Personal Support Workers, or PSWs, who work in community, home and long-term care settings supporting older people and people with disabilities. In Ontario, Canada, amid a volatile policy landscape, the provincial government launched an effort to standardise PSW education. Using qualitative methods, this study considered the question: What are the central educational issues reflected by …
Beyond Measure? Disability Art, Affect and Reimagining Visitor Experience
Disability, mad and d/Deaf arts are motivated to transform the arts sector and beyond in ways that foreground differing embodiments. But how do we know if such arts-based interventions are actually disrupting conventional ways of experiencing and consuming art? This article presents three themes from a critical literature review relevant to curating and creating artwork meant to spur social change related to non-normative bodies. We highlight exa…
A Team-Based Comparative Case Study of Violence Across Care Settings for Older Adults in Two Canadian Provinces
Violence can lead to physical and psychological harm, emotional exhaustion, and burnout for paid and unpaid carers. Concomitantly, being regarded as violent, aggressive, or difficult can have a direct impact on older adults' sense of self, care relationships, and quality of care. Current research on violence and aging lacks systemic understanding of the environments and multi-level factors that precipitate or inhibit violent interactions across s…
A Pilgrimage of Passion
Tribes on Cherburg Settlement, Queensland1
Rape of the Fly
A Pilgrimage of Passion
James Augustus Grant in Africa 1860-63
Black Issues in Child Care — Training for Foster Carers and Adoptive Parents
The role of mandates/philosophies in shaping interactions between disabled people and their support providers
Support provision is a personal and important element of daily life for many disabled people. This study examines the ways in which organisational mandates and philosophies shape interactions between disabled people and support providers at two unique organisations in Winnipeg, Canada: a L’Arche community for people with intellectual disabilities and an Independent Living Resource Centre. Data was collected through semi‐structured interviews with…
Socio-demographic, health status, psycho-social and lifestyle predictors of self-rated health in the all Ireland Traveller Health Study
Background Irish Travellers have a lower life expectancy than the general Population. Objective health-status indices are consistently poorer in Traveller and Gypsy populations than in other comparably deprived social groups. Self-rated Health (SRH) is established as a valid indicator of objective health status. Methods As part of an all-Ireland census of 10 618 Traveller families both North and South (response rate 80% overall) employing a novel…
Making ‘care’ accessible
Disability scholars and activists argue that ‘care’ is a complex form of oppression and reject it as a term and concept. I explore the possibility of salvaging care from its oppressive medical and charitable legacies through a discussion of personal assistance. While not arguing for a return to terming personal assistance ‘care’, I argue care can be made accessible in policies and discussions of attendant services and in more general discussions …
The Youth Activist Forum
As with many movements operating in neoliberal regimes, Canadian disability movements struggle to maintain momentum and engage youth leadership. Drawing on feminist disability studies, this article presents the findings of a participatory research project on the Youth Activist Forum, an event which brought together 38 youth with and without disabilities to meet new and established leaders with disabilities. We argue that the process of planning, …
Building Bridges with Accessible Care
This article uses elements of autoethnography to theorize an in/formal support relationship between a friend with a physical disability, who uses attendant services, and me. Through thinking about our particular “frien‐tendant” relationship, I find the common scholarly orientations toward “care” are inadequate. Starting from the conversations between feminist and disability perspectives on care, I build on previous work to further develop the the…
Re/Moving Care from the Ontario Direct Funding Program
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2014
Adversarial Allies
Professional encounters bestow moral esteem upon professional helpers while denigrating those who access services. Yet society is arranged in such a way that professional services are indispensable for many to survive, and service users can experience them as simultaneously helpful and oppressive. We explore the ambivalent figure of the professional “adversarial ally” working within these systems through accounts from two research studies that st…
Organizing survival and resistance in austere times
Following the 2008 financial crisis, all levels of Canadian government implemented austerity measures that dramatically restructured welfare, employment, and social service infrastructures. This has significantly affected how disabled people access services. We argue that this restructuring has been an impetus for new forms of disability activism and care politics in Ontario as disabled people fight for services necessary for survival. We discuss…
Disability Politics and Care
Disability Politics and Care examines a provincial direct-funding program to illuminate what happens when people with disabilities take control of their own care arrangements. In addition to investigating responses from a wide range of stakeholders, Christine Kelly reflects on the broader social and political implications of these types of programs. She probes the divide that exists between rejections of care by disability activists, on the one h…
Mobilizing Metaphor
Care and violence through the lens of personal support workers
Using a grounded theory approach, this article contends that violence should be considered a part of, rather than in opposition to, care. This conceptualisation is empirically supported by themes from a qualitative study of personal support worker education in Ontario, Canada: one on violence against workers; another on abuse; and a third on sentimental motivations. This article demonstrates the tensions of care: that it can be at once violent an…
A future for disability
Exploring experiences of Personal Support Worker education in Ontario, Canada
There is growing attention to the training and education of Personal Support Workers, or PSWs, who work in community, home and long-term care settings supporting older people and people with disabilities. In Ontario, Canada, amid a volatile policy landscape, the provincial government launched an effort to standardise PSW education. Using qualitative methods, this study considered the question: What are the central educational issues reflected by …
Questioning “choice”
In many developed contexts, home-care services have been overhauled with the intent of increasing control and flexibility for those using social and health services. This change is associated with providing funds directly to individuals, and sometimes their families and supports, to arrange at home-care assistance with the activities of daily living. Directly funded home-care programs, or "direct funding" (DF), are not value-neutral policy interv…
Home Care Fault Lines
Doing ‘whatever they can imagine’
Directly funded home care provides funds to individuals to arrange their own services. We ask, what is unique about being a directly funded home care worker? Our qualitative case study in Manitoba, Canada, included an online survey of 95 directly funded workers and interviews with 13 key informants, 24 clients and/or family managers, and 23 workers. Framed by feminist and disability care theories, we found ‘social task shifting’, that is: work th…
Beyond Measure? Disability Art, Affect and Reimagining Visitor Experience
Disability, mad and d/Deaf arts are motivated to transform the arts sector and beyond in ways that foreground differing embodiments. But how do we know if such arts-based interventions are actually disrupting conventional ways of experiencing and consuming art? This article presents three themes from a critical literature review relevant to curating and creating artwork meant to spur social change related to non-normative bodies. We highlight exa…
A Team-Based Comparative Case Study of Violence Across Care Settings for Older Adults in Two Canadian Provinces
Violence can lead to physical and psychological harm, emotional exhaustion, and burnout for paid and unpaid carers. Concomitantly, being regarded as violent, aggressive, or difficult can have a direct impact on older adults' sense of self, care relationships, and quality of care. Current research on violence and aging lacks systemic understanding of the environments and multi-level factors that precipitate or inhibit violent interactions across s…
Intersectionality, health equity, and EDI
Many countries adopted comprehensive national initiatives to promote equity in higher education with the goal of transforming the culture of research. Major health research funders are supporting this work through calls for projects that focus on equity, resulting in a proliferation of theoretical frameworks including "intersectionality," "health equity," and variations of equity, diversity and inclusion, or EDI. This commentary is geared at indi…
None of it was especially easy”
Meaningful engagement with people living with disabilities in immunization program planning would help ensure that people with disabilities, who already face significant challenges due to COVID-19, are offered the same protections as the rest of the population. These recommendations could be easily transferred to the administration of other large-scale immunization campaigns (e.g., influenza vaccines)
Political science (22 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Public relations (13 works) · Nursing (11 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (9 works) · Law (9 works)