Publications & Presentations

Peer-Reviewed Presentations

MacGillivray, M., Aubrecht, K., Durant, L., Theuerkauf, B., & MacLellan, E. (2026). Community-based programming for people 55+ in Northeastern Nova Scotia: An Environmental Scan. Canadian Association on Gerontology annual conference, Crossing Currents: Navigating Aging through Collaboration and Coordinated Action. Charlottetown, PEI. October 15-17.

Aubrecht, K. & MacGillivray, M. (2026). Sustaining inclusive aging: The role of rural nonprofits. Canadian Association on Gerontology annual conference, Crossing Currents: Navigating Aging through Collaboration and Coordinated Action. Charlottetown, PEI. October 15-17.

Grier, E., Aubrecht, K., & MacGillivray, M. (2026). Supporting Social Participation for Newcomers Aged 55 and Over in Rural Nova Scotia: Community Organization Perspectives. Canadian Association on Gerontology annual conference, Crossing Currents: Navigating Aging through Collaboration and Coordinated Action. Charlottetown, PEI. October 15-17.

Neeve, L. & Aubrecht, K. (2026). Narratives of aging, disability, and resilience in the rural university environment. Canadian Association on Gerontology annual conference, Crossing Currents: Navigating Aging through Collaboration and Coordinated Action. Charlottetown, PEI. October 15-17.

Aubrecht, K. & MacGillivray, M. (2025). Advancing age-friendly university principles in a rural context: A case study from St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, “Learning otherwise: Older adults as agents of relational change.” Canadian Association on Gerontology annual conference, Radical Relationality and Aging: Creativity, Community, Connection. Montreal, Quebec. October 23-25.

Aubrecht, K. (2025). Forced to move: Housing, human rights and aging justice. Canadian Association on Gerontology annual conference, Radical Relationality and Aging: Creativity, Community, Connection. Montreal, Quebec. October 23-25.

MacGillivray, M., Dolan, K., & Holmes, C. (2024) Primary Care Providers’ Perceptions of Social Prescribing in Urban and Rural Nova Scotia. Canada’s Social Prescribing Conference. Toronto, ON. September 26-27. 

Hill, T. & MacGillivray, M. (2023). Relative importance of predictors of Nova Scotian’s social isolation and sense of community. International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS). Rotterdam, Netherlands. Aug 21-25. 

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Chandler, E., Rice, C., East, L., Aubrecht, K., & Greenblatt, N. (2026). Bodies in transition: Reflections on aging, disability, and bodily transitions in the social. In C. Rice, I. Mundel, N. Changfoot, & E. Chandler (Eds.), Practicing the social: Entanglements of art and social justice. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Hill, T.G., MacGillivray, M.K., Bezanson, S., Colford, L., Tanner A. (2026). Community-based social prescribing: An integrative review of program characteristics, facilitators, and barriers. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2025-026 
 
Hill, T.G. & MacGillivray, M.K. (2023). Loneliness and sense of community are not two sides of the same coin: Identifying different determinants using the 2019 Nova Scotia Quality of Life data. Journal of Community Psychology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.23089