Rice conducts research in several areas: stories relating to body image; variation in young women's experiences of growing to adulthood; and everyday experiences of women with disabilities and physical differences in social and health care encounters; and body image as an equity issue in an educational setting.
Rice examines how new technology and artistic techniques such as photography, autobiographical filmmaking and drama can change views about bodily differences, including size, disabilities, altered appearances, an atypical bodies [REF].