Chelsea Jones

Associate Professor

Brock University Associate Professor Chelsea Jones standing on Brock University's main campus with red bushes in the background.

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cjones@brocku.ca

Dr. Chelsea Temple Jones (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies. A queer, white settler spoonie, Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from Toronto Metropolitan and York Universities and an MA in Critical Disability Studies from York University.

Dr. Jones’ qualitative research focuses on disabled children’s childhood studies and takes intellectual disability as a cultural phenomenon. Her work is deeply engaged in disabled, deaf, mad, and crip-informed arts-based research methods informed by her work as a Senior Research Affiliate at Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph.

An award-winning teacher and journalist, Dr. Jones is a former Instructor of research methods courses at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Disability Studies and is the co-founder of the transdisciplinary podcast, “Podagogies: A Learning and Teaching Podcast.” She brings storytelling into all her courses and works with students to create intellectual partnerships that value collaboration through a broad, ever-changing understanding of how we might engage in accessible knowledge production.

Research Interests

  • Critical Disability Studies
  • Disabled children’s childhood studies
  • Critical Animal Studies
  • Disability Media Studies
  • Arts-based research
  • Expressive writing and non-normative narrative
  • Digital storytelling/world-making

Publications and Collections

Books

  • Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education, Athabasca University Press, forthcoming (edited collection).
  • Contemporary Vulnerabilities, Plans Unravelled: Reflections On Social Justice Methodologies, University of Alberta Press, 2024 (edited collection).

Special Issues

  • Towards Equity: Services for Disabled Children and Youth, Social Sciences, forthcoming.
  • Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies in Canada, Studies in Social Justice, 2024.
  • Rethinking the Species Divide: Disability and Animality in Literature and Culture, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 2023.
  • Sites and Shapes of Transinstitutionalization, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 2020.

Book Chapters

  • Jones, C., Chatsick, J., Collins, K., Zbitnew, A. (2023). ‘The Fuzzy Mouse’: Unresolved Reflections on Podcasting, Public Pedagogy, and Intellectual Disability. In The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication (pp. 351-368). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Jones, C. (2022). ‘Where are the goddamn pens?’ And other disappearances in writing intellectual disability. In Disappearing Disability: Encounters in Disability Studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholars, 241-253.
  • Jones, C. (2020). Dropping the disability beat: Why specialized reporting doesn’t solve disability (mis)representation. The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media. Routledge.

Academic Articles

  • Jones, C. (Forthcoming). Waiting for Care: A Reflection on (M)otherhood and Siblinghood in Crip Times(s). Childhood.
  • Jones, C., Collins, K., & Rice, C. (2025). Relaxed Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Beyond Diversity Agendas. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
  • Jones, C. & Murphy, E. (2024). Cripping sex education: Reflections on a public pedagogy project. Sex Education, 1-17.
  • Johnson, M., Chandler, E., Jones, C., & East, L. (2024). Crip Digital Intimacies: the Social Dynamics of Creating Access through Digital Technology. Societies, 14(174).
  • Chandler, E., Johnson, M., Jones, C., Harrison, E., & Rice, C. (2024). Enacting Reciprocity and Solidarity: Critical Access as Methodology. Australian Feminist Studies, 1-18.
  • Rice, C., Chandler, E., Shanouda, F., Jones, C., & Mündel, I. (2024). Misfits Meet Art and Technology: Cripping Transmethodologies. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 1-13.
  • Jones, C., Weber, J., Atwal, A. & Pridmore, H. (2023). Dinner Table Experience in the Flyover Provinces: A Bricolage of Rural Deaf and Disabled Artistry Saskatchewan. Social Sciences, 12(125).
  • Weber, J., Jones, C., & Atwal, A. (2023). Please pass the Translanguaging: The ‘Dinner Table Experience’ in the Lives of Newcomer Deaf Youth and their Families. Languages, 8(96). 1-21.
  • Collins, K., Jones, C., & Rice, C. (2022). Decolonizing Relaxed Performance: A visual Translation of Vital Ecosystems. Research in Arts & Education, (3), 58-64.
  • Rice, C., Jones, C., & Mündel, I. (2022). Slow story-making in urgent times. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 22(3), 1-10.
  • Rice, C., Jones, C., & Mündel, I. (2022). Stretching our Stories (SOS): Digital Worldmaking in Troubled Times. Public, 33(66), 154-177.
  • Jones, C., Collins, K., & Zbitnew, A. (2022). Accessibility as aesthetic in broadcast media: Critical access theory and disability justice as project-based learning. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 77(1), 24-42.
  • Jones, C., Rice, C., & Collins, K. (2022). Staging accessibility: Collective stories of Relaxed Performance. Research in Drama Education (RiDE): The Journal of Applied Theatre, 27(2), 1-18.
  • Collins, K., Jones, C., & Rice, C. (2022). Keeping Relaxed Performance vital: Affect and emotion in RP pedagogy. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 16(2), 179-196.
  • Jones, C. (2021). ‘Wounds of regret’: Critical reflections on competence and ‘professional intuition’ in research with intellectually disabled people. Disability Studies Quarterly, 41(2), n.p.
  • Jones, C., Changfoot, N., & Johnston, K. (2021). Representing disability, D/deaf, and mad artists and art in journalism: Identifying ableist fault lines and promising crip practices of representation. Studies in Social Justice, 15(2), 307-333.
  • Jones, C., Rice, C., Chandler, C., & Lam, M. (2021). Toward TechnoAccess: A narrative literature review of disabled and aging experiences of using technology to access the arts. Technology in Society, 65(101536), 1-11.
  • Jones, C., Saujani, S.*, & Zbitnew, A. (2021). Journalism and disability in Canada: Blind and visually impaired journalists weigh in. Canadian Journal of Communication, 46(1), 99-113.
  • Rice, C., Jones, C., Watkins, J., Besse, K. (2020). Relaxed Performance: An Ethnography of Pedagogy in Praxis. Critical Stages.
  • Jones, C. & Cheuk, F. (2020). Something is Happening: Encountering Silence in Disability Research. Qualitative Research Journal.
  • Kerzner, L., Jones, C., Haller, B. & Blaser, A. (2020). Rights and representation: Media narratives about disabled people and their service animals in Canada. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
  • Jones, C., & Collins, K. (2020). From extraordinary to ordinary: Tensions in filming disability activism. International Journal of Education Through Art.
  • Shek-Noble, L., & Jones, C. (2020). ‘Who will clean up this mess?’: Reflections on media coverage of human-guide dog pair in Southeast Asia. Disability & Society.

Commentaries

  • Jones, C., Atwal, A., & Weber, J. (2024). Editors’ Introduction: Activism, Resistance and Presence: Exploring Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies in Canada. Studies in Social Justice, 18(1). 1-13.
  • Jones, C., Collins, K., & LeBlanc Haley, T. (2022). ‘We lost to sushi’: Why My Octopus Teacher is our win, too.” Journal of Literary & Cultural Studies, 15(4), 493-497.
  • Jones, C., Murphy, E., Lovell, S., Abdel-Halim, N., Varghese, R., Odette, F., & Gurza, A. (2022). ‘Cripping sex education’: A panel discussion for prospective educators.” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 11(2), 101-118.
  • Culbert, K., Jones, C., Foster, T., Loeppky, J., Weber, J. (2020). ‘We make art, too’: A panel discussion on disability art and activism on the Prairies. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(4), 138-145.
  • Jones, C. (2019). That time I punched a boy in the forehead: Sibling stories ahead of research. Disability & Society.