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Nicole M. Yantzi, Ph.D.
Geography
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Nicole Yantzi is Assistant Professor of Geography at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She completed her Ph.D. at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 2005. Dr. Yantzi's Ph.D. thesis jointly funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation was entitled "Balancing and negotiating the home as a place of caring: The experiences of families caring for children with long-term care needs". From January 2005 to November 2006 she held post-doctoral fellowships at the CIHR strategic research and training initiative in Health Care, Technology and Place (University of Toronto) and with Dr. Nancy L. Young in the Department of Population Health Sciences (Hospital for Sick Children). Dr. Yantzi's research examines the socio-spatial inclusion, exclusion and marginalization of children with disabilities and their families. Nicole's work focuses on the discursive relationships between places (home, school, playground) and the lived experiences of children with disabilities and their families, and appears in such journals as, Health & Social Care in the Community and Social Science & Medicine. Currently she is a co-investigator on a CIHR operating grant to be submitted to the fall 2007 competition entitled "Schools, Homes and Neighbourhoods (ScHaN): Accessibility Audit for Ontario Children with Physical Disabilities".
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