Gregor Wolbring
Positions
Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Bachelor of Community Rehabilitation
Member
Cumming School of Medicine, Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship
Member
Office of Professionalism, Equity, and Diversity committee
Committee Member
Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Affiliations
Academic Director
Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Contact information
I'm looking for...
Research partners
All the time looking for UofC undergraduate students to do long term research with a disability justice lens (see here) https://wolbring.wordpress.com/academic-life-of-my-students-the-wolbpack/
Background
Biography
I am a wheelchair user since childhood and tenured Professor at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, department of Community Health Science, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies. I am also a member of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe, Germany and a senior fellow of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa, Canada. I am the academic director (EDI, disabilities and accessibility) in the Office of Institutional Commitments and a member of the Presidential Taskforce on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (EDIA) University of Calgary.
I see myself as a disability studies, ability studies, sustainability studies and science and technology governance scholar. For my take on ability studies see https://wolbring.wordpress.com/ability-expectationableism-glossary/
Research
Areas of Research
ability studies including governance of ability expectations; disability studies; disability justice; equity, diversity and inclusion; accessibility including attitudinal accessibility; intersectionality of people with disabilities / disabled people; activism; role narratives; risk narratives; burnout including activist burnout and disablism burnout; allyship; social stressor including ecoanxiety; rights based occupational concepts; rights based spatial concepts; governance of emerging and existing sciences and technologies (e.g. molecular manufacturing, genetics, synthetic biology, robotics, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, machine learning, machine reasoning, automatization, brain machine interfaces, sensors); impact of science and technology on marginalized populations, especially people with disabilities / disabled people; the governance of bodily enhancement; sustainability and environmental issues; emergency and disaster management; environmental activism; environmental education; climate change; eco-health, eco-ableism eco-disablism; resilience; ethics issues; health policy issues; health equity; arts, disability arts disabled artists; community scholar and sport.
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| CORE 205 | Intro to Disability Studies | |
| CORE 542 | Ethics, Technology, and Disability | |
| CORE 547 | Health Research, Emerging Technologies and Marginalized Groups |
Projects
CIHR/ Era-Net Neuro
https://wolbring.wordpress.com/futurebody-the-future-of-the-body-in-the-light-of-neurotechnology/
https://wolbring.wordpress.com/about/
Lead Professor Yanushkevich University of Calgary
https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/special/2021/call-appel-1/award_recipients-beneficiaires_du_financement-eng.aspx
Lead Institute for Science, Society and Policy University of Ottawa https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/news/kmb-grants-fss-centres-and-institutes
Co-Investigator: SSHRC Insight Grant 2024-2029 ($277,846); PI Victoria Fast Computational Urban Accessibility: Understanding, Mapping, and Scoring Barriers in the Built Environment
- Co-Applicant: Catalyst Grant (2024-2025): Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) Report / Subv. Catal.: Rapport de l’administratrice en chef de la santé publique (l’ACSP) Title/Titre: Facing Climate Change in Poverty: Generating a Complex Systems Model at the Climate Change-Poverty-Health Nexus 14 team members as co-applicants PI Sean Kidd, University of Toronto
Awards
- Recipient of the University of Calgary 2022 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion award; Faculty and Postdoctoral Scholars category, University of Calgary. 2022
- (One of Three Finalists) 2020 Sustainability Award University of Calgary, Category: Faculty Sustainability Research Award, University of Calgary. 2020
- BHSc Research Mentor Award, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. 2018
- Tanis Doe Award of the Canadian Disability Studies Association, Canadian Disability Studies Association. 2017
- BHSc Research Mentor Award, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. 2016
- Certificate of nomination, Graduate Student Association Graduate Student Supervision Award. 2016
- Certificate of Nomination, Graduate Student Association Graduate Student Supervision Award. 2015
- Faculty of Graduate Studies, My SupervisorSkills, GREAT Supervisor Award! , Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary. 2015
- BHSc Research Mentor Award, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. 2014
- Certificate of Nomination, Graduate Student Association Graduate Student Supervision Award. 2013
- Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Government of Canada. 2013
- Faculty of Medicine McLeod Award for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. 2011
- 2009's 'Best' in Scholarly/Reference Category at the 2009 New York Book Show, 2009
- Bronze Medal, IGEM. 2008
- Council of Canadians with Disabilities, National Award, Council of Canadians with Disabilities. 1998
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