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Eloping: Autism & Community-Driven Research podcast episode Monday, May 12, 2025:
podcast_eloping-transcript-final-2.pdf
Several members of the Eloping Project team -- Nicole Corrado, Sandra Nakata, Tina Wilson, and Meg Gibson -- recorded a podcast episode about autism and community-driven research with Dr. Barbara Lee at the University of British Columbia. Links can be found here: 

https://blogs.ubc.ca/swkx/episodes/episode-12/

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‘White people have an easier time making claims to those identities’: Interviews on neurodiversity, at The University of Sheffield, UK, Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Forthcoming chapter in edited collection Desiring Autism and Neurodivergence, edited by Dr. Patty Douglas. Chapter authored by Margaret F. Gibson, bridget livingstone, Izumi Sakamoto, Hannah Monroe, Patty Douglas, and Julia Gruson-Wood Read more about ‘White people have an easier time making claims to those identities’: Interviews on neurodiversity
Autistic "eloping" and other fugitive practices: Reflections on neuroqueer resistance, at University of Sheffield, UK, Tuesday, April 29, 2025:
gibson_autistic_eloping_and_other_fugitive_practices.pdf

When Autistic people leave spaces suddenly or against expectations, this can sometimes be referred to as “eloping”. Different people might have a range of other words they would use instead: fleeing, running away, “nope-ing”, wandering, going missing, hiding, getting lost. While researchers have investigated the risks of “eloping” – especially for children -- they have seldom asked Autistic people what these departures mean for them. In this presentation, Dr. Gibson will share reflections and emerging research findings from a mixed-methods, participatory...

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Applied critique (with YouTube link), at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Tuesday, January 21, 2025

  • Margaret F. (Meg) Gibson, Social Development Studies and Social Work, University of Waterloo; Julia Bullard, Information (UBC); Hannah Kia, Social Work (UBC), organized and moderated by Tina Wilson, Social Work (UBC)
    Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed
    Tuesday, January 21, 5-6:30 pm

    in the series
    Green College Special Lecture

  • Social justice and related terms are notoriously unstable objects of analysis and intervention. Liberal responses to seventy-odd years of...

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Observing Neurodiversity, Observing Methodology: Ethnography in Pandemic Times Friday, July 26, 2024

New open-access publication!

Abstract

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 approach needed to be re-formulated with the switch to...

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“White people have an easier time making claims to those identities”: Interviews on neurodiversity, at Desiring Autism and Neurodivergence Symposium, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Tuesday, July 23, 2024:
white_people_have_an_easier_time_making_claims_gibson_et_al_2024.pdf

We presented on a chapter we are writing in which we look at how race was a part of what neurodiversity meant to the people we interviewed, with a particular focus on racialized participants' experiences. 

Abstract

The movements, written works, and affiliations of “neurodiversity” have a history spanning over two decades, however within the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the range of people talking and writing about neurodiversity. Academic researchers and educators are comparatively late to these conversations as they...

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Experiences of parents with disabilities negotiating care and work during the COVID-19 pandemic, at CASWE, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Tuesday, June 18, 2024:
caswe_2024.pdf

By Brianna Urquhart, Michele Martin, bridget livingstone, Margaret F. Gibson. Presented at the Canadian Association of Social Work Educators 2024 Conference. 

Abstract

How have the care and work lives of Canadian parents with disabilities been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? Little literature is available examining how disabled parents navigate their care/work lives within systems, and much of the research that does exist approaches disability through...

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