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I am Dr. Carole Roy,
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Adult Education at St
Francis Xavier University. I received a BA in Women’s Studies and Liberal
Studies (University of Victoria), an MA in Women’s Studies (York University),
and a Ph.D. in Adult Education (University
of Toronto). I
was the recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant (2008-2011). I
also received a Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC) as well as a Postdoctoral
Fellowship (SSHRC). I taught at Trent University, Peterborough, and was a
member of a multinational interdisciplinary research team, Hidden Costs/Invisible
Contributions of Older and Dependent Adults (SSHRC-funded Major Collaborative
Research Initiative).
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I have extensive experience as
an educator with international, community-based, cross-cultural development
education programs and worked with exchanges in Tunisia,
Thailand, Uruguay, and various parts of India.
My research interests include women/older women activists, the use of arts in
social movements and community development, intergenerational learning,
experiential education, qualitative and arts-informed research. My doctoral
thesis was published by Black Rose (2004), The Raging Grannies: Wild Hats,
Cheeky Songs, and Witty Actions for a Better World, which was selected
for the 2005 Amelia Bloomer Award by the Feminist Task Force of the American
Library Association. I have recently completed a documentary film on the
French-speaking Raging Grannies with award-winning filmmakers Magnus Isacsson and Martin Duckworth (2010), which was shown on
Canal Vie, a French-speaking television network. Another documentary film
titled Granny Power was launched in
2014. I am currently doing research and working on a book on documentary film
festivals as well as working on a collected edition on the use of arts with
community groups.
Since 2005 I have initiated and coordinated
community-based documentary film festivals in Peterborough (ON), Antigonish (NS), Sydney (NS), and Inverness (NS) as well
as mini-film festivals at academic conferences and at the Nova Federal Prison
for Women. I am now doing research on documentary film festivals as sites of
citizenship education and community building.
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