Kim Sawchuk earned her bachelor's degree in 1982 from the University of Winnipeg, with gold medal honors for a dual-major in Political Science and History.
10 Facts About Kim Sawchuk
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Kim Sawchuk completed both a Master's in 1986 and her PhD in Social and Political Thought in 1991 from York University in Toronto.
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Kim Sawchuk joined the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University in 1990 and by 2011 was an associate professor.
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Kim Sawchuk has been writing articles on the cultural impact of aging and technology since 1992, and examines cultural attitudes towards aging.
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Kim Sawchuk has noted that if elderly people are portrayed in advertising at all, they are portrayed primarily as caricatures of their youth.
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Kim Sawchuk has participated in a wide number of research projects.
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Kim Sawchuk began participation in 2014 in a two-year trans-cultural project between Canada and the European Union called "Performigrations: people are the territory".
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In 2014, Kim Sawchuk received a grant of approximately $3 million to research, over a seven-year period, the topic Ageing, Communication, Technologies : Experiencing a Digital World In Later Life.
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Kim Sawchuk co-founded the Mobile Media Lab in 2006 She is the organizer of the Critical Disability Studies Working Group at Concordia and works in collaboration with artists and scholars to document and critically examine ableism in cities such as Montreal, Quebec.
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Kim Sawchuk has co-edited numerous books and special issues of journals.