Writing

Continuous Improvement in Digital Government

Delivering Lean Training, Virtually. 2020. Medium. Written with Anthony Longo

Mythbusting: Lean is not about firing people. 2020. LinkedIn.

Inclusivity in Education

Rodney, Alexandra, Belinda Leach, Gwen Chapman and Samantha Brennan. (forthcoming). "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Projects in the University Context: Moving Scholarship and Policy into Practice." In Doing Diversity in Teaching, Writing and Research, Abby Day, Lois Lee and Jim Spickard (Eds.). Policy Press.

Rodney, Alexandra. 2019. Inclusive curriculum planning: Using design thinking to enhance equity, diversity and inclusivity in the classroom. Queen’s Knowledge Forum. Fall 2019, p. 16.

Health, Food & Gender

Rodney, Alexandra. (forthcoming). “Bodies, behaviours and brand-engagement: The evaluation of authenticity on healthy living blogs.” In Identity and Authenticity, Patrick Williams and Kaylan Schwarz, eds. New York: Routledge.

Rodney, Alexandra. 2019. "The rise of the blogspert: Biopedagogy, self-knowledge and lay expertise on women's healthy living blogs." Social Theory & Health. 1-7 (Published online ahead of print).

Rodney, Alexandra. 2018. "Pathogenic or health-promoting? How food is framed in healthy-living media for women." Social Science and Medicine 213: 37-44.

Rodney, Alexandra, Sarah Cappeliez, Merin Oleschuk and Josée Johnston [equal authorship]. 2017. “The online domestic goddess? An analysis of food blog femininities.” Food, Culture and Society 20 (4): 685-707.

Rodney, Alexandra, Josée Johnston and Phillipa Chong. 2017. "Chefs at home? Masculinities on offer in celebrity chefs' cookbooks." In The Masculine Hearth: Food, Masculinities and Home, Michelle Szabo and Shelley Koch (eds.). London: Bloomsbury.

Rodney, Alexandra. 2017. Review of Gender, Class and Food: Families, Bodies and Health by Julie M. Parsons. Graduate Journal of Food Studies. 4 (1).

Rodney, Alexandra. 2015. "What celebrity chefs' cookbooks reveal about cultural inequality." Canadian Sociological Association Culture Cluster (blog post).

Rodney, Alexandra and Josée Johnston. 2015. "Vegetarianism and Veganism, Health Implications." Food Issues: An Encyclopedia, Ken Albala (ed.). New York: SAGE Publications.

Johnston, Josée, Alexandra Rodney and Phillipa Chong. 2014. "Making change in the kitchen? A study of celebrity cookbooks, culinary personas, and inequality." Poetics. 47: 1-22.

Teaching Sociology

Rodney, Alexandra. 2017. "Teaching Food Insecurity: The Social Assistance Food Budget Challenge." Graduate Journal of Food Studies IV (2), Fall 2017.

Social Innovation in Higher Ed and Human-Centered Design

Rodney, Alexandra, Julia Smeed, Heather Kelly and David Newman. 2017. "University of Toronto's Innovation Hub: Working collaboratively to understand students' needs." Communique 18(2), Winter.

Rodney, Alexandra, Jacqueline Beaulieu, Margaryta Ignatenko and Julia Smeed. 2017. "Disrupting power norms to empower students: Four perspectives." Communique 18 (1), Fall.

Bentum, Denise, Kate Bowers and Alexandra Rodney. 2017. "Collaborating in a Decentralized Postsecondary Institution: Three Insights from the Organizational Learning Team." The Innovation Hub (blog post), University of Toronto.

Rodney, Alexandra. 2017. "From Research to Design: Six Key Insights from the Operations and Design Team". The Innovation Hub (blog post), University of Toronto.

Rodney, Alexandra. 2016. "What is Design Thinking?" The Innovation Hub (blog post), University of Toronto.

Rodney, Alexandra. 2016. "Ecosystem Mapping." The Innovation Hub (blog post), University of Toronto.

Rodney, Alexandra. 2016. "What is an Innovation Hub?" The Innovation Hub (blog post), University of Toronto.

Youth Well-being

Gambhir, Mira and Alexandra Rodney. 2018. “Girls and Bullying: A Literature Review.” Chandaria Research Centre. Toronto.

Gambhir, Mira and Alexandra Rodney. 2018. “Cyberbullying and Girls: A Literature Review.” Chandaria Research Centre. Toronto.

Food Practices and Cultures

Rodney, Alexandra. 2015. “Food Deserts.” In Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies, J. Michael Ryan and Dan Cook (eds). New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

Johnston, Josée, Alexandra Rodney and Michelle Szabo. 2014. "Ethical Eating." In Acquired Tastes: Why Families Eat the Way They Do, Beagan BL, Chapman GE, Johnston J, McPhail D, Power E, Vallianatos H. (eds). Vancouver: UBC Press. pp. 59-77.

Johnston, Josée and Alexandra Rodney. 2014."Vegetarianism." In Acquired Tastes: Why Families Eat the Way They Do, Beagan BL, Chapman GE, Johnston J, McPhail D, Power E, Vallianatos H. (eds). Vancouver: UBC Press. pp. 99-115.

Johnston, Josée, Alexandra Rodney and Michelle Szabo. 2012. "Place, Ethical Eating and Everyday Food Practices: A Tale of Two Neighbourhoods." Sociology. 46 (6): 1091-1108.

Johnston, Josée, Alexandra Rodney and Michelle Szabo. 2012. Les gens bien mangent bien : comprendre le répertoire culturel de l’alimentation éthique . IdeAs. Idées d'Amérique. Issue 3.

Johnston, Josée, Michelle Szabo and Alexandra Rodney. 2011. “Good Food, Good People: Understanding the Cultural Repertoire of Ethical Eating.” Journal of Consumer Culture 11 (3): 293-318.

Health Book Reviews

Rodney, Alexandra. 2015. Review of Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease by Alan Cassels. Canadian Review of Sociology 52 (1): 112-114.

Rodney, Alexandra. 2014. Review of HIV Prevention and Bisexual Realities by Viviane Namaste, et al. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 39 (1), pp. 117-119.

Consumption and Production

Rodney, Alexandra. 2016. "Totem Vodka and Cultural Appropriation." Sociological Images August 24.

Johnston, Josée and Alexandra Rodney. 2015. "Whole Foods Market." Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed. George Ritzer (ed). New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

Rodney, Alexandra and Josée Johnston. 2015. "PLU (Price Look-Up) Codes." Food Issues: An Encyclopedia, Ken Albala (ed.). New York: SAGE Publications.

Rodney, Alexandra and Josée Johnston. 2015. "Ghost Writers for Celebrity Chefs." Food Issues: An Encyclopedia, Ken Albala (ed.). New York: SAGE Publications.

Rodney, Alexandra. 2014. Review of Blogging (2nd ed.) by Jill Walker Rettberg. Canadian Journal of Sociology. 39 (3): 429-432.