{"id":24087,"date":"2020-06-03T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T20:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=24087"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:08","slug":"congratulations-to-samantha-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2020\/congratulations-to-samantha-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Samantha Butler!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations to Samantha Butler!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h4 id=\"congratulations-to-samantha-butler-on-defending-her-phd\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Congratulations to Samantha Butler on defending her PhD!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/SAM-B-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/SAM-B-240x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/SAM-B-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/SAM-B-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/SAM-B-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/SAM-B-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/SAM-B-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/SAM-B-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/SAM-B-360x480.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My project found, from interviews and focus groups with 26 self-advocates labelled with intellectual disabilities in Nova Scotia and Ontario, that membership in a self-advocacy organization enabled a sense of belonging, rights, voices, and a legal consciousness to be realized. Nova Scotia still has large institutions into which persons labelled with intellectual disabilities can be placed if their needs change, whereas Ontario had closed all of its large institutions by 2009, yet the self-advocates in Nova Scotia, like those in Ontario, did not express fear or worry that they may face institutionalization in the future. This significant finding was explained by the empowering nature of self-advocacy group membership to provide a feeling of protection against oppressive policy and legislation, even for those self-advocates who had been institutionalized for many years when they were younger, prior to self-advocacy group membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My future plans include, in the short term, a four week research contract with the READ Initiative at Carleton, and in the long term, an application for SSHRC Post Doctoral funding, as well as applications for government and disability sector positions in policy development\/analysis, and alternative-academic positions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Samantha Butler on defending her PhD! &nbsp; &#8220;My project found, from interviews and focus groups with 26 self-advocates labelled with intellectual disabilities in Nova Scotia and Ontario, that membership in a self-advocacy organization enabled a sense of belonging, rights, voices, and a legal consciousness to be realized. Nova Scotia still has large institutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"convocation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24089,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24087\/revisions\/24089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}