Margaret F. (Meg) Gibson

Selections from full CV noted below (not exhaustive)

Current Research Grants

Principal Investigator. 2023-2028. “Eloping: Autistic people’s perspectives on departure and well-being.” SSHRC Insight Grant. Co-Investigators: P. Van Katwyk, E. Ng, A. Morrison, and T. Wilson. $210,675.

Principal Investigator. 2023-2024 (extended to 2025). Collaborators Dr. V. Cobigo (U. Ottawa) and Dr. A. Tint (U. Calgary). “Learning access: An investigation into female students’ experiences of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)-related accommodations in Ontario universities”. SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. Partner organization: Diverse Minds magazine. $23,375.

Co-Investigator. 2020-2027. “What is the best policy mix for diverse families with young children? Reimagining childcare, parental leave, and employment policies.” Principal Investigator Andrea Doucet, Brock University. SSHRC Partnership Grant. $2,499,444. 
 

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Urquhart, B., Chan, L., Gibson, MF., livingstone, b., & Monroe, H. E. (Forthcoming). ‘The refusal to fit into boxes’: Interview findings on ADHD and neurodiversity. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.

Gibson, MF., livingstone, b., Doucet, A., & Cooper, J. (2025). LGBTQ+ parents’ care and work arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Canadian mixed-methods study. J. of Homosexuality.

Gibson, MF., livingstone, b., Easton, S., Monroe, H., and Gruson-Wood, J. (2025). Texts and effects: Interview findings on neurodiversity and representation. Neurodiversity, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27546330251350740. 

Gibson, MF.., livingstone, b., Monroe, H., Leo, S., Gruson-Wood, J., & Crockford, P. (2024). Observing neurodiversity, observing methodology: Ethnography in pandemic times. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241266200

livingstone, b., Gibson, MF., Douglas, P., Leo, S., and Gruson-Wood, J. (2023). Weighing in: Academic writers on neurodiversity. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice 3(3), pp. 72-98. DOI: 10.13169/intljofdissocjus.3.3.0072 

Williams, C. W., Gibson, MF., Mooney, E. S., Forbes, J. R., Curling, D., green, d. c., Ross, L. (2023). A structural analysis of gender-based violence against sexual minority women and trans people. Affilia, 38(3), 350-366.  https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099231155887

Gruson-Wood, J., Reid, K., Rice, C., Haines, J., Chapman, G., Gibson, MF. (2022). The Game of Queer Family Life: Exploring 2SLGBTQI+ parents' experiences of cisheteronormativity, racism, and colonialism through digital storytelling in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Homosexuality. 2022 Dec 8:1-29. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2132581. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36480036.

Harrison LN, Neiterman E, MacEachen E, Gibson MF. (2022). Navigating return to sex: A qualitative Reddit analysis of parents' perceptions about the timing of resuming sex after a birth. Sex Reprod Healthc. 2022 Dec 34:100782. doi: 10.1016/j.srhc.2022.100782. Epub 2022 Sep 16. PMID: 36179395.

Shields, R., Easton, S., Gruson-Wood, J., Gibson, MF., Douglas, P., and Rice, C. (2022). Storytelling methods on the move. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Special issue on Critical Autism Studies: Methodological Incursions, Eds. R. Roscigno & A. Broderick. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2022.2061625.

Gibson, MF. (2021). The helpful brain? Translations of neuroscience into social work. The British Journal of Social Work, 51(7), pp. 2665-2679. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa119 

Douglas, P, Rice, C., Runswick-Cole, K., Easton, A., Gibson, M. F., Gruson-Wood, J., Klar, E., & Shields, R. (2019). Re-storying autism: a body becoming disability studies in education approach. International Journal of Inclusive Education. DOI:10.1080/13603116.2018.1563835

Gibson, M. F. & Douglas, P. (2018). Disturbing behaviors: Ole Ivar Lovaas and the queer history of autism science. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 4(2), 1-28. http://www.catalystjournal.org. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v4i2.29579

Ross, L. E., Gibson, M. F., Steele, L., Williams, C. W., & Daley, A. (2018). In spite of the system: a mixed methods analysis of the mental health service experiences of LGBTQ people living in poverty in Ontario, Canada. PLOS ONE 13(8): DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201437.

Journal Editorials 

Karandikar, S., Gibson, M. F., & Diaz, M. (2025). Unyielding: Words under fire. Affilia, 40(3), 337-340. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08861099251339915 

Gibson, M. F., Diaz, M., & Karandikar, S. (2025). What are we even here for? AI, critical feminism, and social work scholarship. Affilia, 40(1), 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099241295959

Diaz, M., Gibson, M. F., & Karandikar, S. (2024). Are we bridging the gap? The social work practice of critical feminism. Affilia, 39(4), 589-593. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099241276567 

Karandikar, S., Murshid, N. S., Gezinski, L. B., Williams, C. C., Chen, X., Gibson, M. F., Diaz, M., & Kanuha, V. K. (2024). Doing the messy work: Critical feminism and academic leadership in social work. Affilia, 39(3), 385-389. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099241253868

Gibson, M. F., Diaz, M., & Karandikar, S. (2024). Critical feminism under critical conditions: Violence, silence, and resistance. Affilia, 39(2), 197-201. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099241245167
 

Books and/or Chapters

Gibson, M. F. (Forthcoming). Following neurodiversity: trends and tactics along the quest for better worlds. In Disability in turbulent times: Pursuing the generative tensions of critical disability studies. Edited by Katherine Runswick-Cole, Patty Douglas, and Harriet Cameron. Elgar Press.

Douglas, P., Rice, C., Gibson, M., & Hastie, J. (Forthcoming). Beyond ‘inclusionism’: Unmaking and remaking autism in education through creative research. Practicing the social, Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Gibson, M. F. & Gruson-Wood, J. (2022). 2SLGBTIQ+ families in Canada. In Albanese, P. (Ed.), Canadian Families Today, 5^th Edition, pp. 46-69. Don Mills, Canada: Oxford University Press. https://learninglink.oup.com/access/albanese5e 

Gibson, M. F. (2021). Forming the chart: texts, actions, and differences. In Daley, A. and Pilling, M. (Eds.), Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Distress: Documented Lives, pp. 33-55. Palgrave MacMillan.

Gibson, M. F., Daley, A., & Pilling, M. (2021). Concluding thoughts. In Daley, A. and Pilling, M. (Eds.), Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Distress: Documented Lives, pp. 165-172. Palgrave MacMillan.

Pilling, M., Daley, A., Gibson, M. F., Ross, L. E., & Zaheer, J. (2018). Assessing insight: determining agency and autonomy. In Kiltay, J.M. & Dej, E. (Eds.), Containing madness: gender and ‘psy’ in institutional contexts, 191-214. Palgrave Macmillan.