Why are disabled people bullied at work and What can organizations do about it?

Margaret Oldfield, PhD, is a social scientist and disability scholar with wide-ranging interests. Inspired by her experience with chronic illness, she focuses on changing workplaces so people with episodic disabilities can stay employed. She partnered on CCRW’s Disability Confidence in Finance project and collaborates on McMaster University’s project ‘The Impact of Remote Work on Workplace Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities.’ She also explores what it’s like to live in long-term-care (LTC) and how power plays out in these institutions. She promotes a broad range of humane alternatives to LTC. Dr. Oldfield represents the international organization Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice on Trent University’s Towards Just Care project. Recently, she lectured at Trent on reimagining dementia. For the Canadian Sociological Association, she organized a webinar on Medical Assistance in Dying Track 2, attended by 100 people and featuring experts who all have disabilities. Dr. Oldfield gives workshops on academic writing and coaches graduate students and U of T undergraduates with disabilities. She publishes and presents her work nationally and internationally.