Kathy Dobson
Instructor
Biography
A journalist with over twenty years of experience, Kathy Dobson has written for every national newspaper and magazine in Canada. She also worked for the CBC, producing news stories and documentaries for Radio One.
Kathy鈥檚 research interests include the datafication of social assistance programs, media framing of marginalized communities, and the political economy of news. Her dissertation (which was awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, and Ontario Graduate Scholarship) examined how welfare fraud detection programs are used to support misleading narratives about 鈥榳elfare cheats.鈥� Kathy is a researcher and member of the ALiGN聽Media Lab, created by Dr.聽Merlyna聽Lim, which聽includes working聽with marginalized communities and groups engaged with challenging dominant narratives.
贬别谤听蹿颈谤蝉迟听产辞辞办,听With A Closed Fist: Growing up in Canada鈥檚 toughest neighborhood聽(V茅hicule聽Press, 2011), has received numerous awards, including the National Post Readers Choice Award and Literary Press Group聽of聽Canada聽Staff Pick for 2012 Award.聽Her second book, Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada鈥檚 Toughest Neighbourhood, was published in 2018. Kathy is a founding member and serves on the board of directors of the LGBTQ Rainbow聽Umbrella聽in Montr茅al.