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School of Occupational Therapy

Faculty of Health

Brenda Beagan

Professor

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School of Occupational Therapy

Email: brenda.beagan@dal.ca
Fax: 902-494-1229
Mailing Address: 
Room 324, Forrest Building, 5869 University Avenue PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Equity, Justice, Diversity Inclusion
  • Health Professional Education
  • Professional Practice
  • Social Inequities and Occupation
  • Race Ethnicity and Racism
  • Sexual and Gender Identity
  • Social Class
  • Disability/disabling

Department

Cross appointed to Sociology and Social Anthropology, Nursing and Health Promotion

Education

  • BA, ±«Óătv University
  • MA, ±«Óătv University
  • PhD, University of British Columbia
  • PDF, University of British Columbia

Research interests

Brenda Beagan’s research focuses on the ways social inequities shape and are shaped by occupational engagement and meaning. In other words, how what we do (and don’t do) constructs gender, ethnicity, class, culture etc, even as what we do and don’t do are shaped by sexism, racism, ethnocentrism, ableism, heterosexism, gender binarism, classism, etc. She also studies the effects of social inequities on professional education and practice.

Selected publications

  • Beagan BL, Kiepek N, Lauckner H, Rushton PW. Letter to the Editor: Openness to critique is essential. Open Journal of Occupational Therapy. 2025; 13(1), 1-3.
  • Beagan BL, Kiepek N, Lauckner H, Valavaara K. Resisting colonialism in occupational therapy. OT Now. Nov 2024; 27(6), 29-30.
  • µţ±đ˛ą˛µ˛ą˛ÔĚýµţł˘, Kamenetsky S, Zaman S, Parhar G, Jarus T. Disabled students in health and social services fieldwork: Perceptions of field educators and academic coordinators. Teaching & Learning in Medicine. 2024; Dec 13, 1-14.
  • µţ±đ˛ą˛µ˛ą˛ÔĚýµţł˘, Bizzeth S, Brison-Brown M, Pride T, Sibbald K, Valavaara K. Professionalism and the disciplinary control of occupational therapists at the margins. Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional/ Brazilian Journal of Occupational Therapy. 2024; 32, e8592. 
  • µţ±đ˛ą˛µ˛ą˛ÔĚýµţł˘, Sibbald KR, Goree TD, Pride TM. Affirmative action and employment equity in the professions: Backlash fueled by individualism and meritocracy. Canadian Review of Sociology, 2024; 61(3), 241-261.
  • Beagan BL, Bizzeth SR, Sibbald KR, Etowa JB. Epistemic racism in the health professions: A qualitative study with Black women in Canada. [Open Access] Health (London). 2024 Mar;28(2):203-215. doi: 10.1177/13634593221141605. Epub 2022 Dec 7. PMID: 36475974; PMCID: PMC10900862.
  • µţ±đ˛ą˛µ˛ą˛ÔĚýµţł˘, Bizzeth SR, Sibbald KR, Etowa JB. Epistemic racism in the health professions: A qualitative study with Black women in Canada. [OA] Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2024; 28(2), 203-215.
  • Pride TM, Beagan BL, MacLeod A, Sibbald K. Educational experiences of health professionals from marginalized groups: “It definitely takes more work.” Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2024. 18(1), 51-67. doi: 10.1080/15595692.2022.2149485
  • Bizzeth SR, Beagan BL. “Ah, it’s best not to mention that here”: Experiences of LGBTQ+ health professionals in (heteronormative) workplaces in Canada. Frontiers in Sociology, 2023; 8: 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1138628
  • Beagan BL, Bizzeth SR, Pride TM, Sibbald KR. (invited editorial) Racism in occupational therapy: “It’s part of who we are…” British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2023; 86(3): 171-175. doi: 10.1177/03080226231153345
  • Beagan BL, Sibbald KR, Bizzeth SR, Pride TM. Factors influencing LGBTQ+ disclosure decision-making by Canadian health professionals: A qualitative study. [Open Access] PLOS One, 2023; 18(2): e0280558. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0280558
  • Beagan BL, Bizzeth SR, Etowa JB. Interpersonal, institutional and structural racism in Canadian nursing: A culture of silence. [Open Access] Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 2023; 55(2): 195-205. doi: 10.1177/08445621221110140

Teaching

  • OCCU 6000/6600/6006 Applied Research
  • OCCU 5007 Research Approaches for Occupational Therapists
  • OCCU 6002 Social Influences on Occupation
  • OCCU 6512 Social Inequities in Everyday Life

Supervisory role

  • Masters supervisory committee member – 27 (1 in progress)
  • Masters supervisor – 23 (0 in progress)
  • Doctoral supervisory committee member – 15 (3 in progress)
  • Doctoral supervisor – 10 (3 in progress)
  • Postdoctoral supervisor – 5

Selected awards and honours

  • School of Occupational Therapy Faculty Recognition Award, classes of 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020
  • Tier II Canada Research Chair, Women & Health 2007-2012