Head to shoulder picture of a mid-30s white woman wearing a grey sweater with a red and a pink stripe. She has brown bangs and eyes, with her hair in a ponytail, and is looking at the camera with a closed mouth smile.

Head to shoulder picture of a mid-30s white woman wearing a grey sweater with a red and a pink stripe. She has brown bangs and eyes, with her hair in a ponytail, and is looking at the camera with a closed mouth smile.

Julia Gruson-Wood

Interdisciplinary Health Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow

Julia Gruson-Wood is an interdisciplinary health scholar and postdoctoral fellow of Gender, Family, and Health at the University of Guelph. She views academia as a tool for social change and is interested in using descriptive writing, multimedia storytelling, infographics and podcasting to change systems of power/oppression impacting the communities she is tied to. Her educational background includes Science & Technology Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Medical Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Creative Writing. Ongoing collaborative projects include research aimed at: transforming autism in education (PI: Patty Douglas); studying the uptake and discourse of neurodiversity (PI: Margaret Gibson), and; understanding how parents’ gender roles and divisions of labour impact family wellbeing (PI: Jess Haines). She is writing her first book, Remaking Therapy, Reshaping Autism, a critical ethnography of the culture and practices of applied behaviour therapists in Ontario, to be published by the University of British Columbia Press.

Julia has been a Re•Vision participant and co-facilitator and found both experiences transformational. As a queer parent, she is excited to conduct Re•Vision workshops with 2SLGBTQI+ parents for her SSHRC-funded Insight Development Grant, Precarious Inclusion: a collaborative study working to provide a social diagnostic of parents’ inclusion and exclusion experiences in this confusing time of equal legal rights and political backlash.