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Danielle Peers is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta, holding a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Disability and Movement Cultures. They serve as Co-director of Just Movements CreateSpace and Co-PI of the Re-Creation Collective, bridging academic research with community engagement.
Their research focuses on critical disability studies, adapted physical activity, and sport sociology through poststructuralist and intersectional disability justice lenses. Key areas include disability sport policies, crip art communities, and equity practices in recreation. Peers employs diverse methodologies including genealogy, arts-based research-creation, and discourse analysis.
Peers' publications reveal strong trends in disability representation, crip aesthetics, and critical Paralympic studies, with increasing emphasis on intersectional justice and arts-based knowledge production since 2012. Their work consistently challenges normative frameworks while centering disabled experiences.
- Tier II Canada Research Chair in Disability and Movement Cultures (SSHRC)
- Killiam Laureate (Accelerator Award)
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Paralympic Bronze Medalist (2004)
- World Championship Medalist
Peers supervises graduate students using social science/humanities lenses, emphasizing sociocultural approaches to disability. They lead the Re-Creation Collective exploring disability sport practices and co-direct Just Movements CreateSpace for disability arts. Current research examines meaningful participation in disability sport, connections to broader social justice, and emerging crip movement practices.
As a former Paralympic wheelchair basketball athlete and coach, Peers integrates lived experience with academic rigor, particularly through award-winning research-creation projects like the dance film Inclinations.
