PhD. Candidate
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Margaret Janse van Rensburg (she/her), MSW, RSW is a PhD candidate in Social Work at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on the territory of the Algonquin people. Most of her work is interested in supporting Autistic adult mental health, wellbeing, and inclusion. Her current PhD project seeks to investigate Practitioners’ and Professionals’ barriers to and facilitators of providing Ottawa Autistic adults with mental health support with the Ottawa Adult Autism Initiative. She works as a Community Outreach Liaison for the Neuroinclusivity in Housing project. In the Past, she worked as a research coordinator for the Autism, Neurodiversity and Academic Achievement Lab, as a Research Assistant for the Bridging the Silos project, and in the Oral Histories of Disability Rights Movement project. Margaret's special interest is swimming. You can find out more about Margaret here: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0780-7945.
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Friday, October 25, 2024
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CT
Practitioner Perspectives of Autistic Adult Mental Health: Implications for Social Work Education
Saturday, October 26, 2024
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM CT