Chloe G K Atkins

Director of The PROUD Project on Employment and Disability (funded by SSHRC, DNDRC, TechNation, The Catherine and Frederik Eaton Foundation and other private donors). It is a multinational, multiyear study looking at the conditions which encourage and sustain the employment of qualified disabled persons in the workplace. Atkins received her PhD in Political Theory (UofT)and, a postdoc in Law from Cornell University Law School. She has research interests in disability, bioethics, vulnerable minority identities, human rights, phenomenological research and narrative scholarship. She is a previous CIHR grant holder for a project which undertook a multisite, multiyear study of best practices about the management of rare and difficult-to-diagnose illness. Atkins is the author of My Imaginary Illness (Cornell 2010), awarded 3 prizes including The American Journal of Nursing’s Book of The Year (2011). Has held Clarke, Fulbright and SSHRC Fellowships.