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Amanda Grenier is a Professor and the Norman and Honey Schipper Chair in Gerontological Social Work at the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, with a joint appointment at Baycrest Hospital. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on aging and inequality, policy analysis, and critical gerontology. She holds a PhD from McGill University and has held prior roles at McMaster University and McGill School of Social Work.
Key research areas include precarity in late life, homelessness among older adults, and the social construction of frailty. She leads projects funded by SSHRC, CIHR, and ESDC, including studies on dementia research ethics and aging in marginalized populations.grenier has published extensively in journals like Journal of Aging Studies and Gerontologist, and runs the International Network for Critical Gerontology.
- Education: PhD in Social Work (McGill/Université de Montréal), Postdoc at Keele University
- Leadership: Former Director of the Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging (McMaster), Editor for Journal of Aging Studies
- Grants: Over $600K in SSHRC, CIHR, and government funding for aging-related projects
Her teaching emphasizes critical perspectives on aging, with supervision of PhD students exploring topics like intergenerational relations, embodiment, and migration-related care labor.
