Martine Lévesque, Ph. D.

Education

• B. Sc. Occupational therapy, School of rehabilitation, Université de Montréal (1990)
• M. Sc. Biomedical sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal (1993)
• Ph. D. Public Health, School of Public Health, Université de Montréal (2016)
• Postdoctoral fellowship, Health planning and community participation, Oral health and society, McGill University (2016-2019)

Current research projects

• Exiting violence for women with disabilities: training, awareness and technosocial support for frontline workers and resources. Université de Montréal Program for innovative techno-social projects, Inven_T-Centre for innovation; August 2022-Sept. 2023
• Occupational well-being and safety of women with disabilities experiencing domestic violence: life course trajectories and pathways out of violence. Research Support Grant for New Professors. Fonds de recherche du Québec: Société et Culture; Sept. 2022-August 2025Cr

Selected publications

• Lévesque MC, Munoz Y, Laurence-Ruel C, Gauthier L, Labrecque-Lebeau L. Violence, women and disability : Occupational therapy’s social responsability. (2023). Occupational Therapy Now Journal of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists. May/June 2023.
• Lévesque MC, Trapper L, Kutcher A, Linton P, Macdonald ME, Roy L. (2022). Occupational transaction in support of Miyupimaatisiuun (wellness): Eeyou/Eenou community voices. Journal of Occupational Science (JOS). DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2022.2132999. Published online November 8th
  2022.
• Laurence-Ruel C*, Lévesque MC, Munoz Y, Labrecque-Lebeau L, Gauthier L. (2022). Expériences de violence conjugale chez les femmes en situation de handicap, une analyse structurelle des leviers et barrières à la sortie de violence. Winter 2022 Edition, Revue du CREMIS (Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales, les discriminations et les pratiques alternatives de citoyenneté). Vol. 13, no.2.
• Massé J, Dupéré S, Martin E, Lévesque M. Transformative medical education: must community-based traineeship experiences be part of the curriculum? A qualitative study. (2020). International Journal for Equity in Health. Version électronique: 2020: 19:94. doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01213-4
• Lévesque, M. C., Law, S., Torrie, J., Carlin, R., Trapper, L., Kutcher, A. & Macdonald, M. E. (2019) Northern Québec James Bay Cree regional health governance in support of community participation: Honoring the “Butterfly.” International Indigenous Policy Journal. 10(4). doi:10.18584/iipj.2019.10.4.8425.
• Teachman, G., Lévesque, M. C., Keboa, M. T., Danish, B. A., Mastorakis, K., Noronha, C., … & Macdonald, M. E. (2018). Group peer review: Reflections on a model for teaching and learning qualitative inquiry. International Review of Qualitative Research, 11(4), 452-466. doi:10.1525/
  irqr.2018.11.4.452.
• Lévesque, M. C., Levine, A., & Bedos, C. (2016). Humanizing oral health care through continuing education on social determinants of health: Evaluative case study of a canadian private dental clinic. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 27(3), 971-992. doi:10.1353/
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• Lévesque, M. C., Dupéré, S., Morin, N., Côté, J., Roberge, N., Laurin, I., Bedos, C. (2015). Translating knowledge on poverty to humanize care: benefits and synergies of community engagement with the arts. Educational Action Research, 23(2), 207-224. doi:10.1080/
  09650792.2014.980286
• Lévesque, M. C., Hovey, R. B., & Bedos, C. (2013). Advancing patient-centered care through transformative educational leadership: a critical review of health care professional preparation for patient-centered care. Journal of Healthcare Leadership. 5, 35-46. doi:10.2147/jhl.s30889

Research interests

• Occupational Science:
  • transactional perspectives on Indigenous community participation in wellness planning
  • occupational justice, women with disabilities and intimate partner violence
• Indigenous community participation and wellness
• Participatory and qualitative methodologies
• Transformational learning in the health professions
• Social and political practices in occupational therapy