My name is Sarah Oosman. I am a 1st generation settler Canadian with mixed ethnicity (South Asian/Mauritius & Wales) and currently live, play, and work on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis People, also known as Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. I have been a physical therapist for more than 20 years and am an associate professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science, University of Saskatchewan. I am also a researcher with the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) and a co-lead on an Indigenous-led Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) in Saskatchewan. I joined the CPN at its inception in 2014. I spend my time in the … [Read more...] about Sarah Oosman – 30DoS – Day 2

Since my early days as a clinician, I have always been interested in the interactional/relational aspects of healthcare. What are the components that contribute to a successful therapeutic relationship between a patient and a physiotherapist? How do we need to think about interactions and communication in physiotherapy? After a few years of clinical practice in both Switzerland and the USA, I enrolled in a PhD programme in Sociology to explore exactly interactional aspects in musculoskeletal physiotherapy. I have been working in higher education for nearly 20 years and have continued to investigate interactional practice situations in healthcare, both in Switzerland and in Asia. I was … [Read more...] about Veronika Schoeb – 30 DoS – Day 1

Those of you who have been with the CPN since it began in 7 BC (Before COVID) will know that one of our earlies 30DoS campaigns featured a handful of our lovely CPN members.Having brief profiles of some of our colleagues and friends really helped us to grow as a network and feel like a family, so we thought, given how fractured we all are right now, it was time we did it again. So our plan is to feature one person in the Network every day for 30 days.We want to profile members new and old, students, new graduates and experienced practitioners, teachers and researchers, the deeply critical and those of you who are just getting started. To make it manageable for us, we've drafted five … [Read more...] about This year’s 30 Days of September campaign is about you!

The progress of this storm by Andreas Malm In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm develops a counterargument: in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable. Link to book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3140-the-progress-of-this-storm Elizabeth … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 30

Eva Feder Kittay Kittay is a philosopher, disability scholar, social and political theorist, and care ethicist. Her book, Love’s Labor, now in its second edition, is an analysis of the liberal philosopher John Rawls and his theory of justice, extended to care and dependence. Kittay argues that acknowledging dependence is essential. Kittay has also written on cognitive disability. In a recent, more personal book, she reflects her own experiences as a mother of a disabled daughter. She reflects the age-old ethical questions of good life and flourishing from a critical point of view, one which argues that the fact of our-co-dependency does not get sufficient attention. Disability and … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 29

History of philosophy without any gaps Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps." The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition. Link to website: https://historyofphilosophy.net/ You can chain my leg: Epictetus Democracy and the history of philosophy in the age of Trump History of philosophy podcasts Creative Commons Creative Commons is not a tool per se, but it is a good way to assign user rights to your online content. It is free to use CC-licences, it is … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 28

Scrivener Scrivener is a writing application that enables you to carry your work with you. The app is suscription based but also very versatile and handy if you write a lot. Scrivener does not tell you how to write, but it simply provides help with str´arting and finishing your draft. Scrivener is like a electronic master notebook. It communicates with other software such as Word. It is great for long writing projects and getting your writing and notes organised. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmIkROmxBHg&t=20s Resistance as research by Leslie Brown, Susan Strega Research as Resistance takes a critical look at the … [Read more...] about 30DoS 2020 – Day 27