She is also an Adjunct member of the Critical Disability Studies Programme at York University, Chair of the Association of American Geographers’ Disability Specialty Group, and an Advisory Committee member of the Disability Health Research Network. Using a biopsychosocial model of disablement she has explored the roles that space and specific places play in how people experience illness/impairment. Such work has enforced the fact that disability is the outcome of the process of disablement which has both a spatial and temporal reality. Much of her research has been conducted with women living with chronic illness. She has published her work in journals such as Disability Studies Quarterly, Disability & Society, and Health & Place.