Ruth Lowndes is a Research Associate at York University, engaged full time on the project, Reimagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices. She is a co-applicant on a related international project, Changing Places: Unpaid Work in Public Spaces, which uses team-based rapid ethnography within a feminist perspective to examine how the paid and unpaid work involved in care changes with a person’s transition into long-term residential care. She is registered with the College of Nurses of Ontario and is a Certified Diabetes Educator.