Ryerson University

Faculty Member, Nutrition

Assistant Professor

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Jacqui Gingras, PhD, RD is an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University’s School of Nutrition. Her research involves theoretical and experiential explorations of critical health and dietetics epistemology and what “counts” as knowledge in nutrition and food education and practice. She has a particular interest in how a dietetic student's and/or professional's subjectivity is constituted by power, discourse, race, class, and gender and how those attributes then inform professional practices. Her research engages autoethnographic, narrative, phenomenological, and arts-informed methods as a means for situated and particular understandings of dietetics theory, education, and practice. Her doctoral research, a critical autoethnographic fiction on how dietetic education, subjectivity, and performativity shape a collective understanding of food, weight, and health, was awarded the Ted T. Aoki Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Curriculum Studies at UBC. Her work appears in the Health at Every Size Journal, Food, Culture & Society, Feminist Media Studies, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Educational Insights, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Currently, Dr. Gingras serves as the Chair of the Centre for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (Faculty of Community Services), as a Steering Committee member of the Partnership for Dietetic Education and Practice, and is a member of the Advisory Committee for Professional Affairs (Dietitians of Canada). She is a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario.

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