Gregor WolbringUniversity of Calgary · Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies
Gregor Wolbring
Doctor of Philosophy
Ability Studies, Disability Studies, Science and Technology Governance, AI, robotics, environ./sustainab. topics, EDI
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Introduction
Best to just look up our webpage to see what my students and I are doing as we are pretty diverse topic-wise https://wolbring.wordpress.com/
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July 2021 - present
August 2013 - May 2021
August 1989 - July 1992
Education
August 1989 - July 1992
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Publications (300)
Various phrases such as “social implications”, social impact” and “ethical, legal and social implications” are used to indicate the impact of a given scientific or technological advancements on the ‘social’. The impact on the ‘social’ is one focus of science and technology governance discussions. Many terms and phrases can be used to audit the enga...
Burnout is a problem within the workplace including in higher education, the activity of activism, and in reaction to experiencing systemic discrimination in daily life. Disabled people face problems in all of these areas and therefore are in danger of experiencing “disability burnout”/”disablism burnout”. Equity/equality, diversity, and inclusion”...
According to the World Bank, the world will not meet the SDG of ending extreme poverty in 2030. Disabled people live disproportionally below the poverty line. Many societal developments and discussions can influence the poverty level of disabled people. This study aimed to better understand the academic engagement with the poverty of disabled peopl...
Disabled people face many social problems in their lives, as outlined by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. These problems often increase when disabled people also belong to another marginalized identity. The first aim of this study was to report on the extent and what intersectionalities are mentioned in academic abstrac...
Disabled people need to be activists given the many problematic lived realities they face. However, they frequently encounter obstacles in traditional offline activism. Online activism could be a potential alternative. The objective of this scoping review is to examine the extent and nature of the coverage of disabled people in the academic literat...
People experiencing poverty are highly exposed to climatic events due to multiple intersecting factors. This commentary centres on poverty, generally, and homelessness, specifically in considering the impacts of climate change on health equity in Canada. We propose prioritizing poverty reduction and prevention over emergency response through measur...
Health equity is an important aspect of wellbeing and is impacted by many social determinants. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a testament to the lack of health equity and the many health inequity issues based on social determinants experienced by disabled people. The health equity/health inequity situation of...
Participation in sport on all levels, physical activity, leisure and recreation is seen as important for disabled people but at the same time barriers are reported for disabled people. Sports Pedagogy, kinesiology and physical education are fields that cover physical activities. The ability of the body is at the centre of many barriers to physical...
Background: Neuro-based scientific and technological advancements constantly shape and are shaped by body/mind ability expectations, which in turn influence the perception and meaning of below species-typical (impaired), species-typical (normal) and beyond species-typical abilities (enhanced), which neuro-abilities are desired, and what neuro-abili...
Background: Complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) are widely used by individuals in many parts of the world to treat different ailments and maintain good health. Midwives are maternity care providers who may recommend or provide CAMs to assist clients with their pregnancies and childbirth and the early neonatal health of infants. There are...
This paper contributes to the development of a Next Generation First Responder (NGFR) communication platform with the key goal of embedding it into a smart city technology infrastructure. The framework of this approach is a concept known as SmartHub, developed by the US Department of Homeland Security. The proposed embedding methodology complies wi...
Background: Being occupied is an important factor in human well-being and ranges from paid and unpaid work to activities of daily living. Various occupational concepts that do not contain health in the phrase such as “occupational justice” are employed to engage with the social barriers people experience in being occupied. The aim of this study was...
Disabled people face many problems in their lived reality, as evidenced by the content of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Disabled people are constantly engaged in activism to decrease their problems. However, disabled people cannot do all the work by themselves and need allies (who can be so-called non-disabled people...
Social stress can be caused by many factors. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) highlights many social stressors disabled people experience in their daily lives. How social stressors experienced by disabled people are discussed in the academic literature and what data are generated influence social-stres...
Well-being is an important policy concept including in discussions around the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics. Disabled people experience challenges in their well-being. Therefore, the aim of our scoping review study of academic abstracts employing Scopus, IEEE Xplore, Compendex and the 70 databases from EBSCO-HOST as...
Empirical research in psychology and political science shows that individuals collect, process, and interpret information in a goal-driven fashion. Several theorists have argued that rather than striving for accuracy in their conclusions, individuals are motivated to arrive at conclusions that align with their previous beliefs, values, or identity...
Many academic and non-academic educational efforts are positioned at the intersection between science and/or technology and society with the purpose of increasing the literacy of students and others on the societal impact of science and technology and the ability of students to contribute to the academic and non-academic discussions around the soci...
Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) are neuro-products recognized to pose many ethical, legal, and social issues. The health and well-being of people and society—or in other words the ability to have a good life—are a main social issue. BCIs might increasingly impact the ability to have a good life. Various health and well-being indicators can be used...
Equity, equality, diversity, inclusion, belonging, dignity, justice, accessibility, accountability, and decolonization are individual concepts used to engage with problematic social situations of marginalized groups. Phrases that put together these concepts in different ways, such as “equity, diversity and inclusion”, “equality, diversity, and incl...
Environmental issues increasingly impact the well-being, the ability to have a good life, of people, especially members of marginalized groups. Dealing with environmental issues is a long-standing and increasing focus of activism. Youth are increasingly involved in environmental activism. One focus of environmental education is how to instill the r...
AI/ML increasingly impacts the ability of humans to have a good life. Various sets of indicators exist to measure well-being/the ability to have a good life. Students play an important role in AI/ML discussions. The purpose of our study using an online survey was to learn about the perspectives of undergraduate STEM students on the impact of AI/ML...
Risk perception, literacy, communication, narrative, governance, and education are important aspects of emergency and disaster management, preparedness, and planning (EDMPP) as they for example influence and direct EDMPP policies and actions. A thorough understanding of the ‘social aspects of risk is important for EDMPP, especially in relation to m...
The importance of emergency and disaster management, preparedness, and planning (EDMPP) is ever increasing with COVID-19 being one recent EDMPP challenge. EDMPP is impacted by and impacts the ‘social’ of individuals and societies. Therefore, a thorough understanding of the ‘social’ is important for providing EDMPP. Marginalized populations are over...
The state of the ‘social’ that individuals, social groups and societies experience are a focus of international conventions, declarations and goal setting documents. Many indicators of the ‘social’ and measures of well-being that contain sets of indicators of the ‘social’ exist to ascertain the state of the ‘social’ of individuals, social groups, a...
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The early involvement of many actors including health professionals is identified in neuroethics and neurogovernance discussions as crucial in constructing conversations around awareness, reaction, and knowledge development pertaining to the ethical, legal, and societal consequences of neuroscientific or neurotechnological advancements...
Nurses can understand and evaluate the impact of neuroscientific and neurotechnological advancements (NNA) from multiple standpoints given their roles as patient liaisons, advocates for their profession and their clients, leaders, and educators as well as their interactions with NNA such including deep brain stimulation and neuroimaging. We conduct...
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Equity, equality, diversity, and inclusion are terms covered in the academic literature focusing on sports, kinesiology, physical education, and physical activity, including in conjunction with marginalized groups. Universities in many countries use various EDI policy frameworks and work under the EDI headers "equality, diversity and i...
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Early involvement of stakeholders in neuroethics and neurogovernance discourses of neuroscientific and neurotechnological advancements is seen as essential to curtail negative consequences. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and audiologists (AUs) make use of neuroadvancements including cochlear implants, brain-computer interfaces, an...
Environmental education (EE) is a lifelong process to acquire knowledge and skills that can influence pro-environmental behavior, environmental activism, and disaster-risk management. Disabled people are impacted by environmental issues, environmental activism, and how EE is taught. Disabled people can be learners within EE but can contribute to EE...
Knowledge influences policy development and policies impact disabled people. Scientific and technological advancements, including neuro-advancements and their governance, have social implications for disabled people. However, knowledge is missing on this topic. Although efforts are underway to increase the number of disabled academics, the numbers...
Youth environmental activism is on the rise. Children and youth with disabilities are disproportionally impacted by environmental problems and environmental activism. They also face barriers towards participating in activism, many of which might also apply to their participation in environmental activism. Using a scoping review approach, we investi...
Artists and the arts have many different roles in society. Artists also have various roles in relation to science and technology, ranging from being users of science and technology products to being educators for science and technologies, such as in museums. Artists are also involved in science and technology governance and ethics discussions. Disa...
open access https://www.neurores.org/index.php/neurores/article/view/695
ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR DISABILITY STUDIES
ZDS JOURNAL OF DISABILITY STUDIES
Juli 2021 | innsbruck university press, Innsbruck
ZDS | ISSN 2791-4313 | www.zds-online.org
https://zds-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ZDS_2021_1_5_Wolbring.pdf
Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies https://jcdsi.org/index.php/injcds/article/view/46/36 open access
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are envisioned to enable new abilities of action. This potential can be fruitful in particular when it comes to restoring lost motion or communication abilities or to implementing new possibilities of action. However, BCIs do not come without presuppositions. Applying the concept of ability expectations to BCIs, a w...
Throughout history, people as individuals and as collectives have been judged on their abilities with often negative disabling consequences for the targeted individual or group of people. The focus of this book is the practice of eugenics the goal of ‘improving’ human hereditable abilities a goal that influences the judgment of people’s and group a...
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) advancements increasingly impact society and AI/ML ethics and governance discourses have emerged. Various countries have established AI/ML strategies. “AI for good” and “AI for social good” are just two discourses that focus on using AI/ML in a positive way. Disabled people are impacte...
http://hdl.handle.net/1880/111635
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) increasingly influences products and processes used by social workers, occupational therapists, audiologists, nurses and speech language pathologists (health professionals for short) in general and in their rehabilitation practice. Health professionals are expected...
Disabled people are impacted by Artificial Intelligence (AI) including Machine Learning (ML) linked neuro and brain based scientific and technological advancements (from now on called AI/Neuro for short). How disabled people are portrayed and what role is linked to disabled people in AI/Neuro discourses impacts how AI/Neuro are advanced in relation...
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies
BACKGROUND:Science, technology and innovation (STI) governance concerns itself with the societal impact of STI. Occupation, whether used with the meaning of paid, unpaid work or any activity that is considered meaningful to the individual on an everyday basis, is one area of societal impact of STI. Fields such as occupational therapy, occupational...
Research experience is beneficial for undergraduate students for many reasons. For example, it is argued in academic literature and in reports produced by various organizations that engage with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and science education that undergraduate research experience increases the graduation rate in STE...
It seems, rarely a day goes by where we do not read about lone wolf attacks such as the recent one in Christchurch, or the organized attacks in Sri Lanka. Campaigns for issues such as Brexit and election campaigns reveal an increasing polarization of discussions, a decrease in civility and a disconnect between social groups, which in turn increase...
https://www.reinhardt-journals.de/index.php/vhn/article/view/151905/5111
For research gate readers. This article also is listed as a preprint. I thought I could just update the status from preprint to article but I can not. Thats why its listed now twice. Won't use preprint category anymore.
BACKGROUND Return-to-work (RTW)/back-to-work (BTW) interventions that are designed to rehabilitate individuals impaired from ful...
Background:
Science, technology and innovation (STI) governance concerns itself with the societal impact of STI. Occupation, whether used with the meaning of paid, unpaid work or any activity that is considered meaningful to the individual on an everyday basis is one area of societal impact of STI. Fields such as occupational therapy, occupational...
open access https://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies
For research gate readers. I ca not change the preprint to article
As such you see the article now twice. Its now published and not a preprint anymore. I thought one could update the preprint to article but one can not. Won't use the preprint category anymore. My apology
Here the abstract from the article
BACKGROUND
Return-to-work (RTW)/back-to-w...
Scientists, engineers, and healthcare professionals are currently developing a variety of new devices under the category of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Current and future applications are both medical/assistive (e.g., for communication) and non-medical (e.g., for gaming). This array of possibilities comes with ethical challenges for all stake...
Resilience is a concept employed within an increasing scope including ecology, security, social sciences and human psychology. It is applied to various social groups including disabled people. At the same time there are numerous critiques within and outside of the disability community of how resilience is conceptualized and operationalized. The med...
Resilience is a concept employed within an increasing scope including ecology, security, social sciences and human psychology. It is applied to various social groups including disabled people. At the same time there are numerous critiques within and outside of the disability community of how resilience is conceptualized and operationalized. The med...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638288.2019.1620873
Speech-related professionals such as speech language pathologists (SLPs) and audiologists make use of neuro-advancements including neurotechnologies such as cochlear implants (CIs), brain-computer interfaces, and deep brain stimulation. Speech-related professionals could occupy many roles in relation to their interaction with neuro-advancements ref...
Disabled people are often the anticipated users of scientific and technological products and processes advanced and enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Disabled people are also impacted by societal impacts of AI/ML. Many ethical issues are identified within AI/ML as fields and within individual applications of AI/ML....
Purpose: People with disabilities face participation challenges in all occupations. Scientific and technological advancements impact the occupational landscape of humans. This scoping review aimed to ascertain the academic engagement with occupation in relation to robotics and human enhancement focusing in particular on how people with disabilities...
@Risk project blog piece https://issp.uottawa.ca/at-risk/news/motivated-reasoning-mr-and-bias-free-framework
Disability and Development Report Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals by, for and with persons with disabilities (Many authors but can not add them under authors) https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2018/12/UN-Flagship-Report-Disability.pdf
http://journals.hw.ac.uk/index.php/IPED/article/view/53/48?fbclid=IwAR3T13l0pdmAvdqttNvxU-H71s21fSPaVjEXH1IjsNVLeTr19P6ZRKimCSg
It is recognized that evidence on the social situation of disabled people that could inform policy and other discourses impacting disabled people is missing. Disabled people, and community members linked to disabled peopl...
From recreational to elite levels, sport has many benefits for disabled people. At the same time, it is acknowledged that there is a trickle-down problem from para-elite sport to sport participation of disabled people, in general. Newspapers are one form of media that sets agendas and influences public opinion. Many studies have highlighted problem...
http://eubios.info/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/EJAIB52018.218202634.pdf
EcoHealth is an emerging field that examines the complex relationships among humans, animals, and the environment, and how these relationships affect the health of each of these domains. The different types of determinants of health greatly influence human health and well-being. Therefore, EcoHealth’s ability to improve human, animal, and environme...
Background: Complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) are widely used by individuals in many parts of the world to treat different ailments and maintain good health. Midwives are maternity care providers who may recommend or provide CAMs to assist clients with their pregnancies and childbirth and the early neonatal health of infants. There are...
Ein kritisches Bewusstsein für Ausgrenzung und Verletzbarkeit von marginalisierten Gruppen ist für den deutschen Diskurs um Empowerment von zentraler Bedeutung. Zum ersten Mal beziehen die AutorInnen in diesen Diskurs auch die Debatte um Exklusion und Alterität mit ein und lassen die von Diskriminierung, Armut und Ausgrenzung betroffenen Menschen,...
The purpose of this presentation is to exploring the impact of motivated reasoning on disabled people through various lenses such as the Bias Free framework (Building an Integrative Analytical System For Recognizing and Eliminating inEquities), Other-ism or Other-ness, and risk perception. Motivated reasoning (MR) describes how individuals generate...
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS; also known as crib death) describes the sudden unexpected death of an infant under one year of age, which remains unexplained after a thorough investigation. SIDS is a public health concern. It is the fourth leading cause of infant death in Canada. Newspapers are a major source of health information for the publi...
One of the most consequential advances in sciences and technology is the increasing generation of human bodily enhancement products in many shapes and forms that enable a culture of, demand for and acceptance of improving and modifying the human body. In 2016, a Cyborg Olympics, a Championship for Athletes with Disabilities, took place in Zurich, S...
This report focuses on assistive technologies (ATs) for people with disabilities covering perceptions and specific needs related to ATs, as well as complementary measures by the public sector. Three comprehensive empirical studies were carried out: a quantitative European-wide online survey addressed impaired people directly. In addition, two quali...
Full-text available:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2018/603218/EPRS_IDA(2018)603218_EN.pdf
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2018/603218/EPRS_IDA(2018)603218(ANN1)_EN.pdf
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2018/603218/EPRS_IDA(2018)603218(ANN4)_EN.pdf
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2018/603218/EPRS_IDA(2018)603218(ANN2)_EN.pdf
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2018/603218/EPRS_IDA(2018)603218(ANN3)_EN.pdf
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) constitutes a significant step, marking a paradigm shift in the way people with disabilities are seen and leading to important legislative and policy changes. This report analyses first the regulatory frameworks for assistive technologies (ATs) that have been establis...
This report focuses on Assistive Technology (AT) for three specific conditions of disability: 1) blindness and visual impairment; 2) deafness and auditory impairment; 3) autism spectrum disorders (ASD). These three groups of disability affect different body organs and functions, and have very different impacts on human activities and social partici...
The objective of this poster was to present an investigation of the engagement of the academic Motivated Reasoning (MR) literature with disabled people and to evaluate the impact of MR on disabled people through various lenses: the BIAS FREE framework, Otherness, ethics and evidence expected for policy.
https://theconversation.com/why-ability-expectations-must-be-central-to-debates-on-science-and-our-future-82055
Advancements in scientific research and technological development (SRTD) influence the practice of organ donation and organ transplantation (ODOT). Many SRTD governance discourses put forward the need for multi-stakeholder engagements. We posit that staff employed by organ procurement organizations have a stake in the discussions around SRTD applic...
http://jori.ncsu.edu/documents/2017/01/advocacy-and-interdisciplinarity.pdf
