Laurence Roy erg. PhD

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Professeure agrégée

Contact details (research)
Centre de recherche de l’Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel (INPLPP)

Centre de recherche de Montréal sur les inégalités sociales, les discriminations et les pratiques alternatives de citoyenneté (CREMIS)

Contact details (school)
laurence.roy@umontreal.ca

Program
Ergothérapie

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1556-690X

Education

  • B. Sc. Ergothérapie, Université de Montréal (2005)
  • PhD Sciences biomédicales (option Réadaptation), Université de Montréal (2012)
  • Post-doctorat Psychiatrie, Université McGill (2014)

Main ongoing projects

  • Co-development, implementation, and evaluation of an intersectoral intervention for people experiencing homelessness with an acquired brain injury.
  • Encouraging the creation of regional support networks to prevent homelessness after provincial detention.
  • Homelessness prevention and housing rights advocacy by and for women with invisible disabilities.
  • Meaningful activities in secure forensic mental health settings: A participatory mapping study.
  • Project Lotus: Supporting women’s post-shelter transition through participatory research.

Selected publications

  • Leclair M, Lemieux AJ, Crocker AG, Dumais Michaud A-A, Perrottet D, Vigneault L, Brabant C, Péloquin S & Roy L. (2026) “What about that violence?” Transforming the discourse on violence in mental health research and services. Front. Psychiatry 17:1905808. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1905808
  • Ducharme, R., Jubinville, W., Bottari, C., Salazar, A.P., Thibault, G., Wagner, V., Lamontagne, M-E, Pan, H. & Roy, L. (2026). Preventing homelessness in adults with acquired brain injury: a mixed-methods rapid review. Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 69(5).
  • Jubinville, W., Bottari, C., Ducharme, R., Wagner, V., Thibault, G., Dugas, C., Lamontagne, M-E, Roy, L. (2026). “Overnight, everything changed”: life courses and turning points toward homelessness among people with acquired brain injury. Brain Injury, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2026.2621162
  • Roy, L., Leclair, M., Crocker, A. G., Abdel-Baki, A., de Benedictis, L., Bérubé, F.-A., Thibeault, E., Latimer, E., Roy, M.-A. (2024). Risk factors for homelessness and housing instability in the first episode of mental illness: Initial findings from the AMONT study. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.13495
  • Jacobsen, K., Roy, L., Seto, V., Marshall, C. A., & Perreault, M. (2024). “I Always Have my Key in my Hand”: A Photovoice Exploration with Women in Post-Shelter Transition. International Journal on Homelessness, 4(2), 256-280. doi: 10.5206/ijoh.2023.3.17310
  • Marshall, C. A., Gewurtz, R., Barbic, S., Roy, L., Lysaght, R., Ross, C., . . . Kirsh, B. (2023). Bridging the transition from homeless to housed: A social justice framework to guide the practice of occupational therapists – 2nd edition: hpps://www.sjmhlab.cim/publications.

Research Directions

  • Occupational therapy and mental health
  • Mental health and forensic services
  • Health and rehabilitation needs of people experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity
  • Homelessness prevention
  • Social health inequalities
  • Participatory, qualitative, and mixed research