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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

akipp@uoguelph.ca

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

 

  • Feminist & critical studies

  • Qualitative research methods

  • Community-engaged research

  • Academic, government & clear-language writing

  • Knowledge mobilization

  • Project management

Publications​​​​​​​​
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.​​

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Kipp, A., Hawkins, R., & Gray, N. (2020). Gendered and racialized experiences and subjectivities in volunteer tourism. Gender, Place, and Culture. Available Online.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Kipp, A., & Hawkins, R. (2019). The responsibilization of “development consumers” through cause-related marketing campaigns. Consumption Markets & Culture, 22(1): 1-16. Available Online.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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).

  • 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).

  • 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). 

  • 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)

  • 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).

  • 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). 

  • Kipp, A., et al. (2018). Canada in a changing climate – rural and remote communities. Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Conference. Saskatoon, Canada. (Panel Presentation). 

  • 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). 

  • Kipp, A. (2017). ‘Shaping the volunteer tourist bubble’: Gendered experiences of volunteer tourists. Canadian Association of Geographers Conference. Toronto, Canada. (Oral Presentation).

  • Kipp, A. (2017). ‘Shaping the volunteer tourist bubble’: Gendered experiences of volunteer tourists. American Association of Geographers. Boston, United States of America. (Oral Presentations).  

  • Kipp, A. (2016). The gendered experience of volunteer tourism and the implications for international development. Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario. Waterloo, Canada. (Oral Presentation).

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