The Disabled Voices Project

Banner image for the Disabled Voices Project, with the heading "DISABLED VOICES PROJECT" in all-CAPS, over a light blue background with dark blue wave accents and a dot-grid pattern on the corners. The body text reads "Co-Primary lnvestigators Dr. Jennifer Gagnon and Kathryn Douglas-Campbell receive StEAR Funding for transformative Accessibility and Disability Justice project" The banner features two circular photos of Dr. Jennifer Gagnon and Kathryn Douglas-Campbell, two women mentioned in the body text of the image. Dr. Jennifer Gagnon has dark-red straight hair with bangs and a hair-length extending past her shoulders. In her photo, she is smiling, wearing black clothing and large rim sunglasses, pictured beside her black dog. In the second photo, Kathryn is wearing large rim eye-glasses with thin frames, a light-coloured top and a blue cardigan layered on top. She has chin-length, light and dark brown hair and is pictured smiling in front of a green lawn with a wooden-pole structure, with a dark-brown building behind her and a partly-cloudy sky above the building.

Participate in the Disabled Voices Project!

You can participate in the Disabled Voices Project by completing a questionnaire, participating in an interview, and participating in a focus group.  You can choose to do one, two, or all three of these options.  We hope you will share your experiences with us! 

Complete the
Questionnaire – Open now!
Sign up for an
Interview – Fall/ Summer 2025
Sign up for a
Focus Group – Fall/ Summer 2025

Learn more about the Disabled Voices Project

Download/Review the Disabled Voices Project Consent Form

Contact the Study Team

About the Disabled Voices Project 

We endeavor to collect stories from Disabled UBC community members from both campuses (students, staff, faculty, alumni, contract workers, former employees, volunteers, visitors) representing a wide range of disabilities (physical conditions, intermittent disabilities, chronic illnesses, chronic pain conditions, chronic fatigue conditions, Deaf/DeafDisabled/Hard of Hearing/Late-Deafened, Partially Sighted/Blind/Visually Impaired (BVI), learning disabilities, neurodivergence, mobility aide users, those supported by workplace accommodations), while striving to include intersectional voices (Queer, Indigenous, women, people of colour, Black, biracial, two-spirit, transgender, racialized, non-binary, immigrants/new to Canada).

We cannot strive to make progress towards Disability Inclusion without first fully understanding the climate of systemic oppression and inequity that exists at UBC. The University has made progress towards uncovering the truth and experiences of racialized and Indigenous people in work such as the Antiracism and Inclusive Excellence (ARIE) Task Force Report, but Disabled voices and stories have not yet been heard and published in such a formal, widely recognized manner. It is essential to first collectively understand the issue before we can come together to build solutions.

This project is funded by a StEAR Framework Enhancement Fund grant.

Email Dr. Jennifer Gagnon at Jennifer.gagnon@ubc.ca for more information.

Contact The Study Team

If you would prefer to contact us anonymously, please do so using the form below:

(feel free to make up a name)
(please only include an email address if you would like us to respond)

You can also contact Dr. Jennifer Gagnon, the principal investigator of the Disabled Voices Project, at Jennifer.Gagnon@ubc.ca.

Sign up to participate in an Interview or Focus Group Discussion!

You can sign up for an interview or focus group by completing the form below. Interviews and Focus Groups will take place in the Summer/Fall of 2025 – after you sign up, we will contact you closer to that time with more details. Note: We will keep your personal information confidential – nobody other than the study team will have access to it. You are welcome to create a generic email address to communicate with us, and use a false name if you prefer. We can conduct your interview over Zoom, or in person. If you choose a Zoom interview, you are welcome to keep your camera off and have Zoom present a nickname/false name if you prefer.

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You can contact Dr. Jennifer Gagnon, the principal investigator of the Disabled Voices Project, at Jennifer.gagnon@ubc.ca