Chantal Robillard

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Universite du Quebec A Montreal (UQAM)

Experiences of people with disabilities regarding dating applications and websites is sparsely addressed in the literature. Objectives of this scoping review were to ascertain the factors influencing the experiences of people with disabilities in relation to their use of dating apps and websites, as well as to identify solutions to improve their pa...

Advocating for health as a basic human right, health promotion focuses on sustaining health and wellbeing rather than on the prevention of risk and disease. In the 1970s it offered a potential response to growing public health concerns about increasing health disparities and, later on, to inequities in access to health care. Anthropology, more prec...

Drawing on the experiences of service providers supporting live-in caregivers and migrant agricultural workers in two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Quebec), we explore how structural violence shapes the precarious conditions of female temporary foreign workers. Service providers emphasized how transnational social pressures on women to maintain e...

The rational management of expenditures has received much attention in the evaluation of problem gambling, overlooking however the contribution of the sociocultural context in which gambling occurs. This paper examines how moderate-risk and problem gamblers develop specific semantic frames within three settings—private, casino, and online—to struct...

The rational management of expenditures has received much attention in the evaluation of problem gambling, overlooking however the contribution of the sociocultural context in which gambling occurs. This paper examines how moderate-risk and problem gamblers develop specific semantic frames within three settings—private, casino, and online—to struct...

The gambling market is regulated because it involves costs to society. The standard approach to countering these is to tax gambling products. However, gambling taxes deter more recreational than pathological gamblers and are regressive, meaning that they increase social inequalities. Concurrently, health prevention measures reduce the social costs...

Background and aims: In an effort to provide further empirical evidence of meaningful differences, this study explores, in a student population, the distinctions in gambling behavioral patterns and specific associated problems of two levels of gambling severity by comparing problem gamblers (PG) and moderate-risk gamblers (MR) as defined by the sc...

To describe gambling practices and trends in Quebec between 2009 and 2012 given that, in Canada, public funding allocation to address the risks associated with gambling practices should be based on valid prevalence data and knowledge of patterns and trends in vulnerable populations. The study data were taken from the 2009 and 2012 cross-sectional w...

This is a five-year project funded by the concerted actions program « Les jeux de hasard et d’argent au Québec : Portrait des joueurs adultes et prévalence des problèmes associés » of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQ-SC). The study main objective was to generate prevalence data on gambling behaviours and associated problem...

Although power differentials which enable the components of stigma to unfold have been identified, literature that demonstrates the gendered disparities in stigmatization is scarce. Using a gender-based framework, this paper aims first at understanding the gendered social cues which produce the stigma in mental illness enacted by the general popula...

'Whores', 'hookers' and 'prostitutes' are among the many labels used to represent women in the sex industry. As a result, some sex workers develop defence mechanism to cope with this negative labelling. The present study explored the intersecting sources of the 'whore stigma' and its management in the city of Tarija (Bolivia). Work involved the tri...

Résumé Les études internationales sur la consommation d’alcool font maintenant appel à un cadre d’analyse propre au genre, soulignant des variations dans les profils de consommation des femmes en fonction des rôles sociaux qui leur sont assignés. En considérant la prostitution comme un rôle social de plus, cet article nous amène à réfléchir sur la...

This is an applied companion to our empirical article elsewhere in this issue (Fichten et al., in press) on technological needs and concerns of Canadian junior/community college- and university-based disability service providers. Here, we provide highlights of our findings as well as timely, practical recommendations to disability service providers...

Results of a Canada-wide and a Quebec based study of students with a variety of disabilities in Canadian postsecondary education are presented. Study 1 involved 156 professionals. They represent 80% of the population of professionals who provide on-campus disability support services. Results indicate that (1) 8% of postsecondary institutions report...

Two studies explored how well English and French speaking colleges and universities in Canada address availability and access to new computer and information technologies for individuals with disabilities. In Study 1, 156 professionals who provide disability-related supports on campus responded to structured interview questions. In Study 2, 40 prof...

In 3 empirical studies we examined the computer technology needs and concerns of close to 800 college and university students with various disabilities. Findings indicate that the overwhelm- ing majority of these students used computers, but that almost half needed some type of adaptation to use computers effectively. Data provided by the students...

This scale, "The Accessibility of Campus Computers: Disability Services Scale," provides postsecondary education institutions with a self-evaluation tool that will help determine how accessible their computer and learning technologies are to students with disabilities. It evaluates a range of situations such as: whether there are computers with ada...

In a series of three studies conducted between fall 1997 and spring 1999 we explored the computer, information and adaptive computer technologies needs and concerns of Canadian postsecondary students. To obtain an overview of the important issues, in Study 1 we conducted focus groups with 6 postsecondary personnel responsible for providing services...

Views and concerns of the professionals who deliver disability-related services at Canadian postsecondary education institutions about access to information and instructional technologies are presented. Findings are based on structured interviews with 156 individuals who represent 80% of the population of Canadian campus-based disability service pr...

"Thèse présentée à la Faculté des études supérieures(F.É.S.) en vue de l'obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en anthropologie" Thèse (Ph. D.)--Université de Montréal, 2006.

"NR-18044" "Thèse présentée à la Faculté des études supérieures(F.É.S.) en vue de l'obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en anthropologie" Thèse (Ph. D.)--Université de Montréal, 2006. Microfiche (Positif).