The Author
Claire Smith is the author of many articles that have been published in a variety of academic and popular journals. Claire has engaged audiences as a keynote speaker at regional, as well as at national events, where she has talked about her experiences as a member of the Canadian Equestrian Team, a severe Traumatic Brain Injury survivor, and a PhD. She is a director of the Ontario Brain Injury Association and a member of the Leeds and Grenville Accessibility Committee. In 2017, she was nominated as an amazing person in Ottawa (http://www.amazingpeople.ca/2017-amazing-person/) for her volunteer efforts. She lives in Merrickville, Ontario.
Academic Publications
Academic Journal Articles
Smith, C. (2015). (Re)imagining ‘normal’ movement: Dystonia, the chronic illness disrupting my life. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 4(3), 92-107. doi: 10.1525/dcqr.2015.4.2.92
Smith, C. (2012). (re)discovering meaning: a tale of two losses. Qualitative Inquiry, 18 (10), 862-867.
Smith, C. (2012). What would I change the next time? A confessional tale of in-depth qualitative data collection. Qualitative Research Journal, 12 (1), 98-110.
Smith, C. (2008). Performing My Recovery: A Play of Chaos, Restitution, and Quest After Traumatic Brain Injury. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9(2), Art. 30,
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/2-08/08-2-30-e.htm
Smith, C. (2007). Innovative rehabilitation after head injury: Examining the use of a creative intervention, Journal of Social Work Practice, 21(3), 297 – 309.
Smith, C. & Squire, F. (2007). Narrative perspectives: two reflections from a continuum of experience, Reflective Practice, 8(3), 375 – 386.
Carlson, P., Boudreau, M., Davis, J., Johnston, J., Lemsky, C., McColl, M., Minnes, P., Smith, C. (2006). ‘Participate to learn’: A promising practice for community ABI rehabilitation, Brain Injury, 20(11), 1111-1117.
Smith, C. (2005). Epistemological intimacy: A move to autoethnography, International Journal of Qualitative Methods,4(2), Article 6,
https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/IJQM/article/view/4448
Academic Book Sections
Smith, C. (forthcoming). Reflections on a delayed mid-life crisis & a long overdue forgiveness: My chang(ed)(ing) life after severe traumatic brain injury. In L. Peterson & C. Kiesinger (Eds.), Tales of Change: Navigating the (Un)expected at Midlife. Lexington Press.
Smith, C. (2017). A ghostly presence: (un)belonging in spaces on the peripheries. In D.M. Bolen, S.L. Pensoneau-Conway, and T.E. Adams (Eds.), Doing Autoethnography. Boston, MA: Sense Publishers.
Smith, C. (2009). Innovative rehabilitation after head injury: examining the use of a creative intervention. In P. Chamberlayne & M. Smith (Eds.), Art, Creativity and Imagination in Social Work Practice, (pp. 39-53). New York: Routledge.
Other Publications
Smith, C. (2018, November). Life-changing losses don’t define who I am. CBC: Player’s Own Voice. https://www.cbc.ca/playersvoice/entry/life-changing-losses-dont-define-who-i-am
Smith, C. (2018, October). Reconceptualizing loss: An opportunity for change. Concussion Legacy Foundation Canada. https://www.concussionfoundation.ca/personal-stories/2018/10/22/la79vsuxhmczndmltdg5nv918hkre7
Smith, C. (2018, September). #IAmTheFaceOfBrainInjury. Ontario Brain Injury Association Newsletter. http://obia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OBIA-Review-25-3-for-web-with-links.pdf, p. 37
Smith, C. (2016, October). Claire Smith’s Dystonia is in the background. http://www.dystoniacanada.org/my-dystonia-story-claire
Smith, C. (2014, January 17). Putting loss in perspective. The Chronicle of the Horse. (circulation 19,000).
Smith, C. (2003, March). My journey from one way of life to another. Ontario Brain Injury Association Review. (readership 5,000), 3-6.
Smith, C. (2001, November). Motivation. Horse and Country. Ottawa, Ont.
Smith, C. (2000, June 30). Claire Smith is charting a new course. The Chronicle of the Horse (circulation 19,000), 26-27.
Smith, C. (1999, January 15). The road to recovery has been full of new realizations for Claire Smith. The Chronicle of the Horse (circulation 19,000), 66-67.