- PhD Candidate, Artist-Researcher, Dalhousie University
ivan beck (no pronouns), MSc Occupational Therapy, MSc Rehabilitation Science, is a PhD in Health Candidate in the Faculty of Health who uses arts-based research methods, philosophy, and a pedagogy of love and belonging to explore complex relationships between embodied knowing, trauma, health systems, violence, and dominating logics of settler-colonialism.
Experience
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2018–presentAssistant researcher, Dalhousie University
Education
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2021Dalhousie University, PhD in Health
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2018McMaster University, MSc Rehabilitation Science
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2015McMaster University, MSc Occupational Therapy
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2015University of Manitoba, BSc Kinesiology (Distinction)
Publications
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2025Ordinary Violence. Manifesto., Wordgatherings
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2025And so, we begin. Literary-visual art, Wordgatherings
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2025You Were Selected for Your Lived Experience: A Love-Centered Evaluation from the Perspective of Teaching Assistants in an IPE Course in Higher Education, Healthy Populations Journal
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2024Gendered and sexualized violence at work: An ongoing issue for healthcare professionals., OT Now
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2020Promoting therapeutic jurisprudence through art: The Wall of Hope , Dalhousie Law Journal Blog
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2020Recovery-oriented practices within the Dartmouth Wellness Court: The Wall of Hope , Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being
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2019Professional identity and emerging occupational therapy practice: An autoethnography., Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy
Contact ivan for
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- Research supervision
- Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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