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Postdoctoral fellow Rachel Weldrick

Rachel Weldrick

DepartmentUrban and Regional Planning
Areas of ExpertiseAging and later life; Housing and homelessness; Qualitative and community-based methods

Dr. Rachel Weldrick currently holds a CMHC-SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship and is a fellow in the School of Urban and Regional Planning. Dr. Weldrick completed her PhD in Social Gerontology at McMaster University where she studied place-based risk factors and neighbourhood characteristics linked to social isolation and exclusion among older people. Since then, Rachel conducted postdoctoral work at Simon Fraser University with the Aging in the Right Place Partnership – a cross-Canada project addressing homelessness and housing insecurity among older persons. Since joining TMU, Rachel has launched a study with older persons who live alone and rent in the urban peripheries of Toronto and Hamilton. Throughout her work, Rachel prioritizes participatory research, community-based methods, collaborative development of knowledge mobilization outputs, and mixed methods.