Nov. 12, 2015

Emily Hutcheon wins Governor Generals Gold Medal for her MSc Thesis

On November 12, 2015 Emily Hutcheon was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal for her MSc Thesis titled: "Cripping" resilience: Generating new vocabularies of resilience from narratives of post-secondary students who experience disability. Her MSc Supervisor was Dr. Gregor Wolbring.

Dr. Wolbring's statement about Emily's work.

Here is a potential academic and community leader; that was my thought after my first talk with Emily when she asked me to supervise her undergraduate honor thesis. And my first impression was right. Emily combines academic with community leadership! In her Master thesis Emily now interrogated the meanings embedded in dominant conceptions of resilience, and the ways such conceptions may be deployed, shaped, and reshaped through an encounter with “disability. The award Emily receives today shows that she is a leader academically, making a difference in our field of disability studies. However Emily is also a community leader! In 2013 Emily received the Marlin Styner Award a Premier’s Council of Alberta Award Awarded to an individual Albertan who has brought greater recognition to the abilities of all persons with disabilities. Emily combines academic with community leadership a rare a breed indeed.

Congratulations Emily.