calvin prowse

social worker, peer futurist, researcher, & creative

On this page you can find a list of various pieces I have published over the years, including research articles, blog posts, zines, and short films.

academic publications
(open access)

Calvin Prowse (2023). Dreaming Peer Support Futures [Major Research Paper, York University].

Calvin Prowse (2022). Troubling Peer Support Institutionalization: A Mad Institutional Ethnography; Or, Everyday Documentation, De/Valuing, & Values Work in Institutionalized Peer Support [MSW Thesis, McMaster University].

in progress

Calvin Prowse (manuscript in preparation). Introducing Peer Support Futures. Critical Disability Discourses.

Calvin Prowse (manuscript in preparation). Work as Recovery: Peer Support and the Social Relations of Labour Extraction. Critical Disability Discourses.

de Bie, A., … Prowse, C., et al. (manuscript in preparation). What has Mad Student Community Meant to Us? Mourning Mad Losses as Methodology and Praxis.

Disability Justice Network of Ontario (research in progress). “What Happened to You?”: The Disablement of Youth Across Socioeconomic Indicators.

reports

Push Back on Mac (2022). Leading Post-Secondary Education Towards a “New Normal”: Centering Safety, Accessibility, Innovation, and Interdependence in the World of COVID-19 [Policy Brief]. 

Disability Action Group (2020, March 24). COVID-19 Remote Learning Accessibility Audit. McMaster School of Social Work.

blog posts

Colene Allen & Calvin Prowse (2023). Dreaming Together: (Re)Imagining Pathways for Peer Advancement [Blog Post]. PeerWorks.

Calvin Prowse (2020). COVID-19: Information, resources, and considerations for peer support [Blog Post]. Ontario Peer Development Initiative.

zines

Available for purchase through my zine shop:

  • mycotopia (fungal futures) (2023)
  • Introducing Peer Support Futures (2023)
  • purple basil lemonade (2023)
  • poems, &c. (2023)
  • Sweet Dreams Spellbook: A Field Guide for Dreamwork (2023)
  • Peer Support Institutionalization: Troubling Documentation Work (2023)
  • Peer Support Institutionalization: Troubling De/Valuing Work (2023)
  • Peer Support Institutionalization: Facilitating Values Work (2023)
  • Community and / as Magic (2019)

multimedia

Calvin Prowse (2018). dis(gay)bled [short film]. In Your Pocket: Time After Time. RT Collective.