Personal information

Verified email addresses

Verified email domains

urban planning, accessibility, older adults, dementia, healthy built environments, equity, public engagement, sub/urban landscapes, care
Canada

Biography

Dr. Samantha Biglieri, RPP, MCIP is an Assistant Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University, and the Director of the Health, Access + Planning (HAP) Lab. As a planner, her research uses critical approaches at the intersection of planning and health/wellbeing, making connections with practice to build inclusive and accessible communities.

Biglieri’s work has included and continues through four overlapping areas:

(1) Understanding experiences of people living with dementia in their neighbourhoods (e.g. accessibility of built environments and public engagement tools, and wayfinding in suburban areas).

(2) Aging in the built environment, housing and policy (e.g. examining age-friendly policies, tracing financialization and long-term care, seeking alternative housing/service models).

(3) Understanding experiences and governance in sub/urban areas (e.g. examining the governance of COVID-19 in the peripheries of Milan and Toronto).

(4) Accessibility and disability in planning (e.g. understanding how professional planners conceptualize and operationalize accessibility and disability in their daily work).

Biglieri uses innovative text, oral, photo and mobile-based methods, having designed and conducted research using traditional and go-along interviews, GPS tracking, travel diaries, experiential sampling methods, photovoice, content analysis, jurisdictional scans, focus groups, as well as scoping reviews. She is also interested in the intersections of disability studies and care geographies with urban planning and how insights from this kind of research can work toward more just cities.

Biglieri is a Registered Professional Planner, and is a Full Member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and the Canadian Institute of Planners.

Activities

Employment (3)

Toronto Metropolitan University: Toronto, ON, CA

2020-07-01 to present | Assistant Professor (School of Urban and Regional Planning (Faculty of Community Services))
Employment
Source: check_circle
Toronto Metropolitan University via ORCID Member Portal

Toronto Metropolitan University: Toronto, CA

2020-06-01 to present | Assistant Professor (School of Urban & Regional Planning)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Samantha Biglieri

York University: Toronto, ON, CA

2020-01-01 to 2020-06-30 | SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow (Faculty of Environmental Studies)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Samantha Biglieri

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Waterloo, School of Planning: Waterloo, ON, CA

2015-09 to 2019-12-17 | PhD in Planning (School of Planning )
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Samantha Biglieri

Ryerson University, School of Urban and Regional Planning: Toronto, ON, CA

2013-09 to 2015-06 | Master of Planning in Urban Development (School of Urban and Regional Planning)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Samantha Biglieri

Queen's University: Kingston, ON, CA

2009-09 to 2013-06 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Global Development Studies)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Samantha Biglieri

Professional activities (4)

Toronto Council on Aging: Toronto, Ontario, CA

2020-12-10 to 2023-01-30 | Past President of the Board of Directors
Service
Source: Self-asserted source
Samantha Biglieri

Toronto Council on Aging: Toronto, Ontario, CA

2020-01 to 2020-12-10 | President of the Board of Directors
Service
Source: Self-asserted source
Samantha Biglieri

Toronto Council on Aging: Toronto, Ontario, CA

2019-01 to 2019-12 | Vice President of the Board of Directors
Service
Source: Self-asserted source
Samantha Biglieri

Toronto Council on Aging: Toronto, Ontario, CA

2016-12 to 2018-12 | Board Director
Service
Source: Self-asserted source
Samantha Biglieri

Funding (1)

Creation of a Dementia-Capable Neighbourhood from Person to Policy: A Participatory Action Research Approach

2021-06 to 2024-03 | Grant
New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration 2020 (Ottawa, Ontario, CA)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER: NFRFE-2020- 00612
Source: Self-asserted source
Samantha Biglieri