Vanessa Oliver

Education:
           BA, University of Toronto
           MA, Queen's University, Kingston
           PhD, York University, Toronto

• Research Interests
• Selected Publications

Email:voliver@mta.ca
Office: Avard-Dixon 222
Phone: 364-2232

Research Interests

My areas of specialization are youth studies, health equity and arts and community based research.  My recent projects include: a narrative study of homeless youth’s access to health and social services, an evaluation of community-based research uptake at Planned Parenthood Toronto, and arts-based, youth-led projects with Aboriginal youth around HIV prevention and decolonization. 

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Selected Publications

Oliver, V.  (2013).  Healing Home: Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Oliver, V., van der Meulen, E., & Flicker, S. (forthcoming). If You Teach Them, They Will Come:  Providers Reactions to Incorporating Pleasure into Youth Sexual Education. Manuscript submitted for publication to the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

Oliver, V. & Cheff, R.  (2012).  The Social Network:  Homeless young women, social capital, and the health implications of belonging.  Youth and Society.  Online first, May 30. 
           
Oliver, V. & Cheff, R.  (2012).  Sexual Health: The Role of Sexual Health Services Among Homeless Young Women Living in Toronto, Canada.  Health Promotion Practice, 13(3), 370-377.

van der Meulen, E., Oliver, V., Flicker, S, Travers, R., & The Toronto Teen Survey Team. (2010).  Finding the Funding for Youth Sexual Health Services and Education: Perspectives from Ontario Service Providers. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.

Lakhani, A., Oliver, V., Yee, J., Jackson, R. & Flicker, S.  (2010). “Keep the Fire Burning    Brightly:” Aboriginal Youth Using Hip Hop to Decolonize a Chilly Climate.  In A.L. Sandberg & T. Sandberg (Eds.), Climate Change—Who’s Carrying the Burden (205-216).  Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 

Oliver, V. (2009). Homesick: Gender, Youth and Homelessness in Toronto
The Health Experiences of Young Women in Exceptional Circumstances. Policy and Social Justice. The Ontario Women’s Health Network. Winter Bulletin.

Jacobson, N., Oliver, V., Koch, A. (2009). An Urban Geography of Dignity. Health and Place, 15(3), 695–701.

Oliver, V. (2008). The Canadian Charter and its Implications for Homelessness. Parity, February, 21.1, 29.

Daly, T., Armstrong, P., Amstrong, H., Braedley, S., Oliver, V. (2008). Contradictions: Health Equity and Women’s Health Services in Toronto. Commissioned Report. The Wellesley Institute, Toronto.