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Dr. <\/span>Ryan Patterson<\/span> leads the identification, preparation, and submission of research proposals and funding grants at the Accessibility Institute at Carleton University. He contributes to the content editing of Institute publications and facilitates collaborations and partnerships with industry, non-profit, government, community, and academic organizations in disability, accessibility, and inclusion. <\/span>He develops and implements the Institute\u2019s Knowledge Mobilization Strategy and promotes the dissemination of research knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming to accessibility through his background in history, Ryan also publishes and teaches on modern disability history, Mad studies, British Imperialism, and 19<\/span>th<\/span>-century science, technology, and medicine. He has taught at the Universities of Exeter, Bristol, and Carleton, and now lectures at the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Disability Studies.<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan is also a Research Associate and Project Director with the <\/span>Carleton University Disability Research Group<\/span><\/a>, where he organizes seminar series in critical disability studies such as <\/span>Disability Futurity<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Access, Inclusion, and Disability<\/span><\/a>. He mentors student researchers in accessibility practice, multi-media knowledge mobilization, and community-engaged disability research and advocacy. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education: <\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD History, University of Exeter (UK), 2016 <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MA History, York University (Canada), 2009<\/span> <\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BA History, Carleton University, 2008 <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BA Biology, Carleton University, 2005 <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Publications: <\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patterson, Ryan, \u201cThe Mennonite Central Committee of Canada and the founding of Disabled Peoples\u2019 International,\u201d <\/span>Journal of Mennonite Studies, <\/span><\/i>Vol<\/span>.<\/span><\/i> 40, No. 1 (2022), pp. 207-223.<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLiving De-Institutionalized: The Founding of Canadian Independent Living Centers, 1981-85,\u201d <\/span>Carleton University Disability Research Group<\/em>, open access, Forthcoming 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patterson, Ryan, <\/span>\u201cComment From the Field: Disability Futurity Seminar Series, Carleton University Disability Research Group.\u201d <\/span>Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, <\/span><\/i>Vol. 16, No. 1 (2022), pp. 115-119<\/span>. <\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partridge, Kevin, Tara Connolly, Jessica Gunnell, Boris Vukovic, Chantel Trudel, Adrian Chan, Maryam Souaid, and <\/span>Ryan Patterson<\/span>, <\/span>Understanding the State of Accessible Taxi Vehicles and Shared Mobility Services in Atlantic Canada<\/span><\/i> (Ottawa: Accessibility Institute at Carleton University, 2022). <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patterson, Ryan, \u201cThe Third Anglo-Ashanti War, 1873-4,\u201d in <\/span>Queen Victoria\u2019s Wars: British Military Campaigns, 1857-1902<\/span><\/i>, ed. <\/span>Stephen Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)<\/span>.<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patterson, Ryan, \u201cTransnational Representation: Canada and the founding of Disabled Peoples\u2019 International, 1981,\u201d Carleton University Disability Research Group, open access, February 2020. <\/span>https:\/\/transnationalrepresentation.omeka.net\/exhibits\/show\/transnational-representation–\/transnational-representation<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patterson, Ryan, \u201c\u2018To Form a Correct Estimate of Their Nothingness When Compared with It\u2019: British Exhibitions of Military Technology in the Abyssinian and Ashanti Expeditions,\u201d <\/span>The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History<\/span><\/i>, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Aug 2016), pp. 551-572.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Contributor] Jennissen, Therese and Dominique Marshall, Chris Trainor, and Beth Robertson, \u201cCreating, Archiving and Exhibiting Disability History: The Oral Histories of Disability Activists of the Carleton University Disability Research Group,\u201d <\/span>First Monday<\/i>, Vol. 28, No. 1-2 (Jan 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5448,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ryan","cu_people_last_name":"Patterson","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[6],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-5447","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-cuai-staff"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Grants and Knowledge Mobilization Officer","cu_people_degree":"B.A. Hon. (Carleton), M.A. (York), Ph.D. (Exeter)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"ryan.patterson@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"7303","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6813,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/5447\/revisions\/6813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}