PhDs Go Public 2019, 1st Talk: PEOPLE, POLICY, PRACTICE

https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/17442-phds-go-public-2019-1st-talk-people-policy-practice

The event will take place on Friday, 29 March 2019, at 17:30, at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, Alma VanDusen Room.

As part of this event, EDST PhD student, Keith Dormond, will be presenting his work entitled “Understanding honour related violence and oppression in ways that are helpful for victims, their communities, and Canadian society”. His work “examines how service providers such as the police, educators, settlement workers, social workers, counsellors and mental health professionals among others, understand and respond to incidents of violence against women that are motivated by notions of honour and shame.”

<https://www.grad.ubc.ca/campus-community/meet-our-students/dormond-keith>

EDST’s Dr. André Mazawi will be delivering the event’s opening speech, entitled “Thoughts in/action, scholarship, and engaging the public good”.