Merrick Pilling
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Community Services
School of Disability Studies
Toronto, Ontario
mpilling@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 554592
Expert In
2SLGBTQ+ experiences of health care
2SLGBTQ+ experiences of social services
Community based research and qualitative methods
Gender-based violence
Health and well-being
Justice, equity & society
Mad Studies
Queer and trans madness & disability
Social justice education in health care
Social justice education in social services
Violence against disabled, queer, trans & non-binary people
Bio/Research
Merrick Pilling is an assistant professor in the School of Disability Studies. He is the author of Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice and co-editor of Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented Lives. Pilling is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work demonstra...
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Bio/Research
Merrick Pilling is an assistant professor in the School of Disability Studies. He is the author of Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice and co-editor of Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented Lives. Pilling is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work demonstrates that an analysis of the mutually constitutive nature of mad, trans and queer liberation is crucial to Disability Studies and Mad Studies as well as to Trans Studies and Sexuality Studies.
Pilling employs an intersectional, anti-racist lens that emphasizes the importance of lived experience, relevance to the communities being researched and making changes to the systems that create marginalization. He often collaborates with community organizations to ensure the relevance of his research beyond the scholarly literature and to bridge the gaps between academic and community work.
In addition to his post-secondary teaching, Pilling has developed and delivered a social justice-based curriculum for adult learners with direct service backgrounds in health care and social services on the following topics: social justice praxis in clinical chart documentation; intersectional, anti-oppressive approaches to delivering mental health services; trauma-informed care for 2SLGBTQ+ people who have experienced violence; and structural competence with trans and non-binary service users.
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Pilling employs an intersectional, anti-racist lens that emphasizes the importance of lived experience, relevance to the communities being researched and making changes to the systems that create marginalization. He often collaborates with community organizations to ensure the relevance of his research beyond the scholarly literature and to bridge the gaps between academic and community work.
In addition to his post-secondary teaching, Pilling has developed and delivered a social justice-based curriculum for adult learners with direct service backgrounds in health care and social services on the following topics: social justice praxis in clinical chart documentation; intersectional, anti-oppressive approaches to delivering mental health services; trauma-informed care for 2SLGBTQ+ people who have experienced violence; and structural competence with trans and non-binary service users.
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