AMY KIPP
PhD
SOCIAL PRACTICE | FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY | CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES | PUBLIC HEALTH
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Amy Kipp
SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Community Engaged Scholarship Institute
University of Guelph
Education
2020-2025 Doctor of Social Practice and
Transformational Change
University of Guelph
2015 - 2017 Master of Arts in International
Development and Geography
University of Guelph
2010 - 2014 Bachelor of Arts Honours in
International Development
University of Guelph
Experience
2025 Project Coordinator, The People's
Archive of Rural Ontario
2021-2023 Research Co-lead, Art in a Just
Recovery: A community based
research project in collaboration with
Art Not Shame the the Guelph
Neighbourhood Support Coalition
2023 Instructor, First Year Seminar
Who Cares? Do you? Exploring the
complexities of care in our rapidly
changing world
University of Guelph
2020 - 2023 Graduate Research Assistant
Geography Department and Social
Practice and Transformational Change
Program
University of Guelph
2020 - 2021 Research Project Manager
Geography Department
University of Guelph
2018 - 2021 Research Associate
School of Public Health
University of Waterloo
2016, '17, '21 Teaching Assistant
International Development
University Guelph
2017 - 2019 Research Associate
School of Public Health
University of Alberta
2017 Research Analyst
William's Consulting
2017 Program Evaluator
Canadian Coalition for
Global Health Research
2015 - 2018 Research Assistant
International Development
University Guelph
2012 - 2017 Research Assistant
Geography Department
University Guelph
2016 - 2017 Research Intern
Community Engaged
Scholarship Institute
University Guelph
Grants, Awards & Fellowships
2025-2027 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
2025 Recipient of the Erin Angus Graduate Scholarship
2024 Recipient of the Braithwaite
Conference Travel Grant
2022-2023 First Year Seminar Teaching and
Career Development Fellowship
2020 - 2024 Brock Doctoral Scholarship
University of Guelph
2020 - 2023 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada
Graduate Scholarships— Social
Sciences & Humanities Research
Council of Canada
Doctoral Scholarship
2020 COVID-19 Research Development &
Catalyst Fund - UofG Office of
Research
2018 John Vanderkamp Graduate
Medal, College of Social &
Applied Human Sciences, UofG
2016 - 2017 Ontario Graduate Scholarship -
Master's, UofG
2015 - 2017 Graduate Tuition Scholarship
2015 - 2017 Dean’s Scholarship, College
of Social & Applied Human
Sciences, UofG
2015 - 2016 Social Sciences & Humanities
Research Council of Canada
Scholarship - Master's
2010-2014 Queen Elizabeth II/Aiming for
the Top Scholarship, UofG
Service to Society
2021-Present Co-lead, Re-imagining Care Research
Cluster; Live, Work, Well Research
Centre, University of Guelph
2021-2023. Member of GenEQ Advisory
Committee, University of Guelph
2020-2023. Member of GenEQ Graduate Issues
Chair starting December 2021
Working Group, University of Guelph
2019-2023 Member of Sub-Committee measuring
Social Impact of 10C Shared Space
2018-2023 Board Member at 10C and 42C
Shared Space
2017 Member of Search Committee
to appoint new faculty member
in International Development
Department University of Guelph
2017 Member of Working Group
redeveloping the International
Development program
University of Guelph
2016 - 2017 Executive Member
Student & Young Professional
Network Canadian Coalition
for Global Health
2016 - 2017 Graduate Student Representative
& Co-coordinator of the
International Development
Graduate Society
University of Guelph
2011-2015 Community Centre Volunteer
Life Centre
Skills
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Feminist & critical studies
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Qualitative research methods
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Community-engaged research
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Academic, government & clear-language writing
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Knowledge mobilization
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Project management
Publications
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Kipp, A., Currie Reinders, K., Buchnea, A., Duran, R., Bishop, A., Hawkins, R., ... & Tremblay, N. (2025). Critically reflecting on and through creative practice in doctoral education: a collaborative autoethnography of journey mapping. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 16(2), 229-244. Available Online.
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Kipp, A. and Hawkins, R. (2025). Qualifying differently: Reflecting on an alternative approach to doctoral comprehensive exams. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. Available Online.
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Kipp, A. (2023). (Re)shaping the volunteer tourist bubble: The intersectional experiences of two volunteer tourist women in Guatemala. In Riemer, F. (ed) Re-Centering Women and Tourism: Anticolonial Feminist Studies. (Invited Chapter).
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Speers, S. J., Lau, L. L., Neufeld, H. T., Servano Jr, D., Go, D. J., Kipp, A., ... & Dodd, W. (2023). Caring in crisis: The experiences of local religious leaders meeting community food needs in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 5, 100154. Available Online.
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Haldane, V., Dodd, W., Kipp, A., et al. Extending health systems resilience into communities: a qualitative study with workersproviding health and social services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. BMC Health Services Research, 22 (1385). Available Online.
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Dodd, W., Brubacher, L.J., Kipp, A., et al. (2022). Navigating fear and care: The lived experiences of community-based health actors in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science and Medicine. Available Online.
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Dodd, W., Kipp, A., Lau, L. L., Little, M., Conchada, M. I., Sobreviñas, A., Tiongco, M., Sauler, M.M. (2022). Limits to transformational potential: Analyzing entitlement and agency within a conditional cash transfer program in the Philippines. Social Policy and Society. Available Online.
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Kipp A., and Hawkins, R. (2021). From the nice work to the hard work: "Troubling" community-based CareMongering during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gender, Work, and Organization. Available Online.
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Dodd, W., Kipp, A., McNeil, A., Bustos, M., Little, M., Lau, L.(2021) Humanitarian food security interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in low and middle income countries: A review of global actions among international NGOs and UN agencies. Available Online.
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Vodden, K. Cunsolo, A., Harper, S.L., Kipp, A., et al. (2021). Rural and remote communities; Chapter 3 in Canada in a Changing Climate: National Issues Report, (ed.) F.J. Warren and N. Lulham; Governmnet of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. Available Online.
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Kipp, A., and Hawkins, R. (2021) Canadian CareMongering: Exploring the complexities and centrality of community care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Solidarity and Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Available Online.
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Dodd, W., Kipp, A.,Nicholson, B., Lau, L., Little, M., Walley, J., and Wei, X. (2021). Governance, decentralization, and universal healthcare: A qualitative study of community health worker programs in the Philippines. BMC Health Services Research. 21(451). Available Online.
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Dodd, W., Gómez Cerna, M., Orellana, P., Humphries, S., Sadoine, M.L., Zombré, D., Zinszer, K., Kipp, A., Cole, D.C. (2020). Factors associated with seasonal food insecurity among small-scale subsistence farming households in rural Honduras. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(3). Available Online.
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Kipp, A., Hawkins, R., & Gray, N. (2020). Gendered and racialized experiences and subjectivities in volunteer tourism. Gender, Place, and Culture. Available Online.
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Dodd, W., Gómez Cerna, M., Orellana, P., Humphries, S., Kipp, A., & Cole, D. C. (2019). Interrogating the dimensions of human security within the context of migration and rural livelihoods in Honduras. Migration and Development, 1-21. Available Online.
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Kipp, A., Cunsolo, A., Gillis, D., Sawatzky, A., & Harper, S. L. (2019). The need for community-led, integrated and innovative monitoring programmes when responding to the health impacts of climate change. International journal of circumpolar health, 78(2), 1517581. Available Online.
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Kipp, A., Cunsolo, A., Vodden, K., King, N., Manners, S., & Harper, S. L. (2019). At-a-glance Climate change impacts on health and wellbeing in rural and remote regions across Canada: a synthesis of the literature. Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada: research, policy and practice, 39(4), 122. Available Online.
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Kipp, A., & Hawkins, R. (2019). The responsibilization of “development consumers” through cause-related marketing campaigns. Consumption Markets & Culture, 22(1): 1-16. Available Online.
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Kipp, A., Cunsolo, A., Gillis, D., Sawatzky, A., Cook, O., Durish, N., Shiwak, I., Flowers, C., Rigolet Inuit Community Government, Wood, M., Harper, S.L. (2018). A profile of the eNuk environmental and health monitoring program. Polar Knowledge: Aqhaliat, Polar Knowledge Canada: 117-125. Available Online.
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Gray, N. J., Meeker, A., Ravensbergen, S., Kipp, A., & Faulkner, J. (2017). Producing science and global citizenship? Volunteer tourism and conservation in Belize. Tourism Recreation Research, 42(2), 199-211. Available Online.
Presentations
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Brubacher, L.J., Dodd, W., Kipp, A., et al. Navigating fear and care: The lived experiences of community-based health actors in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Association for Studies in International Development. Virtual Conference, May 17-19, 2022. (Oral Presentation).
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Dodd, W., Kipp, A., Lau, L., Little, M., Conchada, M.I., Sobreviñas, A., Tiongco, M. (2021). Exploring experiences and outcomes associated with the Philippines’ conditional cash transfer program: An actor-oriented approach. Canadian Association for Studies in International Development. Virtual Conference, May 31-June 4, 2021. (Oral Presentation).
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Kipp, A., and Hawkins, R. (2021). The complexities of CareMongering: Virtually organized community care. The Social Life of Care. Virtual Conference. May 13-15. 2021 (Presentation and Round Table Discussant).
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Kipp, A., McNeil, A., Bustos, M., Little, M., Lau, L., Dodd, W. (2020). Humanitarian food security interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in low and middle income countries: A review of global actions among international NGOs and UN agencies. Canadian Society for International Health Conference. Virtual Conference. (Oral Presentation).
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Dodd, W., Kipp, A.,Nicholson, B., Lau, L., Little, M., Walley, J., and Wei, X. (2020). Governance, decentralization, and universal healthcare: A qualitative study of community health worker programs in the Philippines. 2020 Canadian Conference on Global Health. Virtual Conference, October 19-22, 2020. (Poster Presentation)
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Kipp, A., et al. (2019). The need for community-led, integrated and innovative monitoring programmes when responding to the health impacts of climate change. ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting. Ottawa, Canada. (Poster Presentation).
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Cunsolo, A., Harper, S.L., Kipp, A., et al. (2018). Inuit health and wellbeing in Nunavik and Nunatsiavut. ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting. Ottawa, Canada. (Oral Presentation).
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Kipp, A., et al. (2018). Canada in a changing climate – rural and remote communities. Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Conference. Saskatoon, Canada. (Panel Presentation).
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Harper, S.L., Kipp, A., & Cole, D. (2018). Using the term “Global South” in IPCC reports. IPCC Lead Author Meeting, Sixth Assessment Cycle. Lanzhou, China. (Oral Presentation).
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Kipp, A. (2017). ‘Shaping the volunteer tourist bubble’: Gendered experiences of volunteer tourists. Canadian Association of Geographers Conference. Toronto, Canada. (Oral Presentation).
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Kipp, A. (2017). ‘Shaping the volunteer tourist bubble’: Gendered experiences of volunteer tourists. American Association of Geographers. Boston, United States of America. (Oral Presentations).
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Kipp, A. (2016). The gendered experience of volunteer tourism and the implications for international development. Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario. Waterloo, Canada. (Oral Presentation).