Laura Pacheco

Laura Pacheco, MSW, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University. She is the co-chair of the Parents and Parenting Special Interest Research Group (SIRG) for Parents with Intellectual Disability at the International Association on the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IASSIDD) and co-facilitates the Research and Knowledge Exchange on Critical Disability Studies at Memorial University. She has lived experience with disability and has over 15 years of experience in both research, praxis, and evidence-informed program development with disabled parents. Her expertise lies in qualitative and intersectional research methodologies including narrative research, discourse analysis, and community-based participatory research.