Publications

Articles

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Sitter, K. C., Young, A. P. E., Herrera, A., Birkholz, H., & Grittner, A. L. (2025). Multisensory storytelling in disability arts: Innovations in accessibility and audience engagement. Studies in Social Justice, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v19i2.4798

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Sitter, K. C., Haney, C.-A., Herrera, A., Pabia, M., Schick, F. C., & Squires, S. (2025). Sensory methodologies and methods: A scoping review. Societies, 15(6), 160. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15060160

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Sitter, K. C., Gamboa, J., & de Groot, J. M. (2025). Language of the heart: Creating digital stories and found poetry to understand patients’ experiences living with advanced cancer. Current Oncology, 32(2), 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/curroncol32020061

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Sitter, K. C., Allemang, B., Young, A. P. E., & Herrera, A. (2024). Building connections: The impact of digital storytelling on communication and leadership skills among disabled young adults. Disabilities, 4(4), 906–917. https://doi.org/10.3390/disabilities4040056

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Young, A. P. E., & Sitter, K. C. (2024). The embeddedness and reproduction of ableism in social work and a call to centre disability justice. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 51(1). https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.4725

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Haney, C. A., & Sitter, K. (2023). Fattening somatic movement: Fat time, epistemology, and performance. Excessive Bodies: A Journal of Artistic and Critical Fat Praxis and World Making, 1(1), 96-114. https://doi.org/10.32920/eb.v1i1.1887

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Sitter, K. C., Allemang, B., Pabia, M. R., Gaunt, E., Herrera, A., & Howell, B. (2023). Cripping digital storytelling: Disability, accessibility, and celebrating difference. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 12(1), 29–58. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v12i1.970

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Allemang, B., Samuel, S., Patten, S.B., Sitter, K.C., Mackie, A.S., Greer, K., Schofield, K., Pintson, K., Farias, M., Patton, M., & Dimitropoulos, G. (2023). Transition Readiness of Youth with Co-occurring Chronic Health & Mental Health Conditions: A Mixed Methods Study. Health Expectations, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13821

 

Ekoh, C. & Sitter, K.C. (2023). Timelines, convoy circles and ecomaps: Adopting diagramming for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants. Qualitative Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250231180321

 

Allemang, B., Samuel, S., Greer, K., Pintson, K., Patton, M., Schofield, K., Farias, M., Sitter, K.C., Patten, S., Mackie, A., & Dimitropoulos, G. (2023). “They go hand in hand”: A qualitative descriptive study on the interconnectedness between chronic health and mental health conditions in transition-age youth. BMC Health Services Research, 23(2). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-09002-1

 

Sitter, K. C., Allemang, B., Pabia, M. R., Gaunt, E., Herrera, A., & Howell, B. (2023). Cripping Digital Storytelling: Disability, Accessibility, and Celebrating Difference. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 12(1), 29–58. 

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Sitter, K. C. (Ed.) (2022). Multisensory storytelling [Special issue]. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, 13(1). 

 

Allemang, B., Dimitropoulos, G., Patten, S.B., Sitter, K.C., Brobbey, A., Mackie, A.S., & Samuel, S. (2022). Association between transition readiness and mental health comorbidity in youth with chronic health conditions. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 67, 161-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2022.09.012

 

Sitter, K.C., Gritner, A., Pabia, M.R., Jarvis, H. (2022). “We knew no one else had our back except us”: Recommendations for creating an accountability-care framework with sex workers in Eastern Canada. Social Sciences, 11(8), 366 https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080366

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Sitter, K.C. & Grittner, A.L. (2021). When participatory approaches are inaccessible: A movement toward research engagement through multi-sensory storytelling. In J. N. Lester & E. Nusbaum (Eds.), Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry (pp.37-48). Routledge.​

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Allemang, B., Samuel, S., Sitter, K.C., Patten, S.P., Patton, M., Pintson, K., Greer, K., Schofield, K., Farias, M., Punjwani, Z., Mackie, A.S., Dimitropoulos, G. (2022). Protocol for READY2Exit: A patient-oriented, mixed methods study examining transition readiness in adolescents with co-occurring physical and mental health issues. Journal of Transition Medicine, 4(1), 20220001. https://doi.org/10.1515/jtm-2022-0001/html

 

Allemang, B., Sitter, K. C., & Dimitropoulos, G. (2021). Pragmatism as a paradigm for patient-oriented research. Health Expectations, 25, 38-47. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13384

 

Sitter, K.C. (2021). Multisensory stories: Celebrating different forms of knowing, being and living in our world. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29621

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Sitter, K.C., Beausoleil, N., & McGowan, E. (2020). Digital storytelling and validity criteria. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19, 1-9. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/10.1177/1609406920910656

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Ladhani, S., & Sitter, K.C. (2020). The revival of anti-racism education: Considerations for social work education. Critical Social Work, 21(1), 55-65. https://doi.org/10.22329/csw.v21i1.6227

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Delgado, J., de Groot, J., McCaffrey, G., Dimitropolous, G., Sitter, K. C., & Austin, W. J. (2020). Communities of practice: Acknowledging vulnerability to improve resilience in healthcare teams. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(7), 488-493. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2019-105865

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Sitter, K. C. & Mitchell, J. (2019). Perceptions of paratransit accessibility among persons with disabilities: An adapted photovoice study. Health Promotion Practice, 21(5), 769-779.

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Sitter, K. C.,  Burke, A. C., Ladhani, S. & Mallay, N. (2019). Sexual health and disability. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 47(4), 255-263. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12287

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