Michaela Knot

Michaela Knot is a qualitative health researcher and accessibility expert who coordinates various projects on the CNIB Research team. She has over 15 years of research experience with mixed methods, patient reported outcomes research, participatory action research and codesign. She was involved in the first cohort of the Rick Hansen Accessibility Certificate course at Vancouver Community College and has undertaken PhD work in medical anthropology in health equity and disability. At present she is the lead research and strategy operations on the team. As part of the role, she has coordinated multiple Accessibility Standards Canada projects and health research related to medical devices, transportation, service delivery and accessibility. As part of the CNIB Research team she also supervises students on accessibility, research ethics and fostering responsible research practice with people with disabilities and accountability of research and data towards lived experience.