The Research Studio produces research publications that focus partly or fully on methodological innovation, epistemological and ontological issues, and methodological pluralism. Our recent research has a strong focus on community-based and collaborative research led by Indigenous and Black researchers.
Books
McHugh, N. A. and Doucet, A. (Eds.) (2021) Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly: The Legacies of Lorraine Code. (State University of New York Press).
Doucet, A. (2018) Do Men Mother? (Second edition; revised and updated). University of Toronto Press.
Siltanen J. and Doucet, A. (2017) Gender Relations in Canada: Intersectionalities and Social Change. (Second edition). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Journal Issues & Publications
Doucet, A. (2023). Time Use Studies, Time, Temporality, and Measuring Care. Time & Society, 32(4), 361-460.
Twamley, K, Doucet, A. and Schmidt, E-M (2021). Relationality in family and intimate practices. Families, Relationships and Societies, 10(1), 1-8.
Cattapan, A., Doucet, A., Lee, R., and McKay, L. (2016). Consuming Intimacies: Bodies, Labour, Care, and Social Justice. Studies in Social Justice, 10(2), 194-362.
Cook, N., Doucet, A., and Rowsell, J. (2017). Visual Methodologies and Social Justice, Studies in Social Justice,11(2), 187-194.
Doucet, A. (2018). Canadian Visual Methodologies and Visual Sociology. Canadian Review of Sociology, 55(2), 163-165.
Doucet, A. (2026). Ecological issues are care issues and care issues are ecological issues: three lessons for care researchers from Rachel Carson. Community, Work & Family, Online First.
de Laat, K., & Doucet, A. (2025). Saying, Doing, Talking, Listening: A Mixed Methods Study of Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare and Household Work Tasks and Responsibilities. Sociology, Online First.
Fuller, S., Cai, M., Petts, R., Doucet, A., Kurowska, A., Lero, D., & Reimer, T. (2025). Unpredictable Work Schedules and Gender Divisions of Domestic Labor. Work and Occupations. Online First.
Fuller, S., Cai, M., Doucet, A., and Qin, S. (2025). Gender divisions of domestic labour during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: Did increases in father involvement persist through later stages? The Canadian Review of Sociology. Online First.
Gibson, M. F., Livingstone, B., Doucet, A., & Cooper, J. (2025). LGBTQ+ Parents’ Care and Work Arrangements During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Canadian Mixed-Methods Study. Journal of Homosexuality. Online First.
Doucet, A., Jewell, E., and Falk, J. (2025). Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto. The Sociological Review. Online First.
de Laat, K., Doucet, A., and Gerhardt, A. (2023). More than Employment Policies? Parental Leaves, Flexible Work, and Fathers’ Participation in Unpaid Care Work. Community, Work, & Family, 26(5), 562-584.
Goddard-Durant, S., Doucet, A., Tizaa, H., and Sieunarine, J. A. (2023). “I Don’t Have the Energy”: Racial Stress, Young Black Motherhood, and Canadian Social Policies. Canadian Review Sociology, 60(4), 542-566.
Doucet, A. and Klostermann, J. (2023). What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait. Sociological Research Online, 29(1), 243-263.
Doucet, A. (2023). Care is Not a Tally Sheet: Rethinking the Field of Gender Divisions of Domestic Labour with Care-Centric Conceptual Narratives. Families, Relationships and Societies, 12(1), 10-30.
Doucet, A. (2022). “Time is Not Time is Not Time”: Care Responsibilities, Clock Time, and Process Time. Time and Society, 32(4), 434-460.
Goddard-Durant, S., Doucet, A., Tizaa H., and Sieunarine, J. A. (2022). A decolonizing, intersectional, Black feminist approach to young Black Caribbean-Canadian mothers’ resilience. Journal of Family Studies, 29(4), 1946-1966.
Jewell, E., Doucet, A, Falk, J, and Hilston, K. (2022). “Looking After Our Own is What We Do”: Urban Ontario Indigenous Perspectives on Juggling Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work for Adult Family Members. Wellbeing, Space & Society, 3.
Doucet, A. (2021). Socially Inclusive Parenting Leaves and Parental Benefit Entitlements: Rethinking Care and Work Binaries. Social Inclusion, 9(2), 227-237.
Doucet, A.(2021). What does Rachel Carson have to do with Family Sociology and Family Policies? Ecological Relational Ontologies and Crossing Social Imaginaries. Families, Relationships and Societies, 10(1), 11-31.
Doucet, A., and Armstrong, P. (2021). A Conversation with Pat Armstrong about “Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid Site-Switching Ethnography”. Families, Relationships and Societies, 10(1), 179-188.
Goddard-Durant, S., Sieunarine, J. A. and Doucet, A. (2021). Decolonising Research with Black Communities: Developing Equitable and Ethical Relationships between Stakeholders. Families, Relationships and Societies, 10(1), 189-196.
Jewell, E., Doucet, A., Falk, J. and Fyke, S. (2020) Social Knowing, Mental Health, and the Importance of Indigenous Resources: A Case Study of Indigenous Employment Engagement in Southwestern Ontario. Canadian Review of Social Policy, 80, 1-25
Doucet, A. and McKay, L. (2020). Fathering, parental leave, impacts, and gender equality: What/how are we measuring? International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 40(5/6), 441-463.