Danielle Landry

Danielle Landry serves as a Research Associate with the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing at Toronto Metropolitan University's Faculty of Community Services. She has taught Mad Studies and Disability Studies courses at TMU since 2014 and developed Centennial College's inaugural Disability Studies course in 2019, demonstrating deep institutional integration across Ontario post-secondary education.

Education:

• PhD (ABD), York University
• MA, York University

Landry's research centers on Mad studies and disability justice through feminist political economy and institutional ethnography frameworks. Her community-engaged scholarship examines how social determinants of health impact marginalized populations, particularly psychiatric survivors and people with disabilities. She actively bridges academic research with activist movements, focusing on labor precarity, mental health policy, and decolonial approaches to wellbeing. Her work consistently challenges institutional norms while amplifying lived experience narratives.

Recent publications reveal evolving themes: early work established foundations in survivor-led research and critical psychiatry, while current output emphasizes pedagogical innovation in Mad-positive education, labor rights for disabled workers, and digital archiving of disability activism. Her scholarship increasingly intersects with Indigenous health perspectives and digital health methodologies, reflecting the CERC's multidisciplinary research streams on social determinants and community wellbeing.

Scientific Awards:

• Hewton-Griffin Archival Research Award (2024)
• Wilhelm Cohnstaedt Social Justice Award (2020)
• Dean’s Teaching Award (2019)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2019)
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship (2015-2018)
• St. George’s Society Endowment (2013)

Landry secured SSHRC doctoral funding and Hewton-Griffin support for building Madness Canada's digital archive of psychiatric survivor businesses. As a core CERC member, she contributes to federally funded projects examining health equity, Indigenous wellbeing, and digital health access. Her teaching grants include curriculum development initiatives that established foundational Disability Studies programming across institutions.

She actively collaborates within the CERC's ecosystem including the Internal Governance Group, Global Advisory Research Governance Group, and IDEA Global Research Innovation Advisory Group. Her current flagship initiative—the Madness Canada digital archive—documents decades of psychiatric consumer/survivor advocacy while partnering with community organizations to ensure research sovereignty and knowledge mobilization.