Ryan Patterson
Grants and Knowledge Mobilization Officer
- B.A. Hon. (杏吧原创), M.A. (York), Ph.D. (Exeter)
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Dr. Ryan Patterson leads the identification, preparation, and submission of research proposals and funding grants at the Accessibility Institute at 杏吧原创 University. He contributes to the content editing of Institute publications and facilitates collaborations and partnerships with industry, non-profit, government, community, and academic organizations in disability, accessibility, and inclusion. He develops and implements the Institute鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization Strategy and promotes the dissemination of research knowledge.
Coming to accessibility through his background in history, Ryan also publishes and teaches on modern disability history, Mad studies, British Imperialism, and 19th-century science, technology, and medicine. He has taught at the Universities of Exeter, Bristol, and 杏吧原创, and now lectures at the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Disability Studies.
Ryan is also a Research Associate and Project Director with the , where he organizes seminar series in critical disability studies such as and . He mentors student researchers in accessibility practice, multi-media knowledge mobilization, and community-engaged disability research and advocacy.
Education:
PhD History, University of Exeter (UK), 2016
MA History, York University (Canada), 2009
BA History, 杏吧原创 University, 2008
BA Biology, 杏吧原创 University, 2005
Select Publications:
Patterson, Ryan, 鈥淭he Mennonite Central Committee of Canada and the founding of Disabled Peoples鈥 International,鈥 Journal of Mennonite Studies, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2022), pp. 207-223.
鈥淟iving De-Institutionalized: The Founding of Canadian Independent Living Centers, 1981-85,鈥 杏吧原创 University Disability Research Group, open access, Forthcoming 2023.
Patterson, Ryan, 鈥淐omment From the Field: Disability Futurity Seminar Series, 杏吧原创 University Disability Research Group.鈥 Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2022), pp. 115-119.
Partridge, Kevin, Tara Connolly, Jessica Gunnell, Boris Vukovic, Chantel Trudel, Adrian Chan, Maryam Souaid, and Ryan Patterson, Understanding the State of Accessible Taxi Vehicles and Shared Mobility Services in Atlantic Canada (Ottawa: Accessibility Institute at 杏吧原创 University, 2022).
Patterson, Ryan, 鈥淭he Third Anglo-Ashanti War, 1873-4,鈥 in Queen Victoria鈥檚 Wars: British Military Campaigns, 1857-1902, ed. Stephen Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Patterson, Ryan, 鈥淭ransnational Representation: Canada and the founding of Disabled Peoples鈥 International, 1981,鈥 杏吧原创 University Disability Research Group, open access, February 2020. https://transnationalrepresentation.omeka.net/exhibits/show/transnational-representation–/transnational-representation
Patterson, Ryan, 鈥溾楾o Form a Correct Estimate of Their Nothingness When Compared with It鈥: British Exhibitions of Military Technology in the Abyssinian and Ashanti Expeditions,鈥 The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Aug 2016), pp. 551-572.
[Contributor] Jennissen, Therese and Dominique Marshall, Chris Trainor, and Beth Robertson, 鈥淐reating, Archiving and Exhibiting Disability History: The Oral Histories of Disability Activists of the 杏吧原创 University Disability Research Group,鈥 First Monday, Vol. 28, No. 1-2 (Jan 2023).