Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. People with lived experience of disabilities, advocates, community organizations, researchers, and policy makers are driving change and dismantling systemic barriers.

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Are you passionate about co-creating research that matters? Dr. Heather Gainforth at the Applied Behaviour Change (ABC) Lab at UBC Okanagan is recruiting a PhD student for September 2026 (flexible). Find out more ▶️ abclab.ok.ubc.ca/about/

The Canadian Disability Participation Project (CDPP) 2.0 is looking for qualified exercise professionals and adults with lived experience of disability to complete their brief survey. Participants will entered in a draw for one of ten $25 Amazon gift cards!
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This paper considers the potential of podcasting as a knowledge translation (KT) tool within participatory research on sport and physical activity:
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Our findings indicate that to transform SCI research systems change is needed at individual, relational, and institutional levels. Read more here --> www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How to engage people with lived experience in #SCI research - developed with praxisinstitute.org

Our work focuses on closing the gap between research and practice through knowledge translation, ensuring that research findings are implemented in real-world settings. A huge THANK YOU to all who contributed to our Research in Partnership Training. We learned so much!

Using an integrated knowledge translation approach, we aimed to explore the barriers and facilitators to making changes to bowel care in individuals with SCI. Read more here ⏩ www.nature.com/articles/s41...