[PNWHEALTH] Save the date! Pioneer of participatory research Budd Hall visiting Seattle on November 14-15; Seminar on November 14 from 3-5 pm

[Sarena Seifer]

*please excuse cross-postings

Dear colleagues,

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is pleased to be hosting Budd Hall, 
Joan Wharf-Higgins and Elizabeth Grove-White from the University of 
Victoria in Seattle on November 14-15 (see bios below).  They will be 
giving a seminar "University-Community Engagement: Stories From the 
University of Victoria" from 3-5 pm on Tuesday November 14 (location on 
the UW campus TBD; to RSVP and receive a direct email with the location, 
please email ccphuw at u.washington.edu)

They are eager to share their experience and expertise, and to make
connections with colleagues who have shared interests around service-learning, 
community-based participatory research and community-university partnerships. 
Please let me know as soon as possible if you are interested in meeting with 
one or more of them outside of the seminar.

Thanks!

Sarena

Budd Hall, founding Director of the University of Victoria's new Office of 
Community-Based Research (see attached), has been working within a framework of 
participatory research for 35 years.  Founder of the International 
Participatory Research network in the mid-1970s, former Secretary-General of 
the International Council for Adult Education, former Dean of Education at the 
University of Victoria, Budd is also Chairperson of the Canadian Council on 
Learning's Health and Learning Knowledge Centre.  His research interests 
include community-based participatory research, social movement learning, 
global civil society and adult education policies.  He co-chaired the 
University of Victoria Task Force on Community-Based Research that recently 
issued this report: http://www.research.uvic.ca/CBRF/index.htm.  He is also a 
poet.

Joan Wharf Higgins is a Canada Research Chair in Health & Society, an Associate 
Professor in the School of Physical Education and a Scientific Advisor to the 
BC and Yukon Health and Learning Knowledge Centre. Joan's areas of research 
include the social determinants of community and population health and physical 
activity; health literacy and healthy communities; and, the application of 
social marketing theory and strategies to facilitate social change. Joan has 
recently finished heading up a federally funded, five year research project on 
community-based diabetes prevention project on the Saanich Peninsula, and is 
currently involved with a number of the project's sustainability 'spin-off's, 
as well as other community-based projects in health literacy, and province wide 
physical activity initiatives (ActionSchools!BC and Active Communities).

Elizabeth Grove-White, Executive Director of the University of Victoria 
Co-operative Education Program, was born in Dublin, Ireland, where she obtained 
her doctoral degree in English from Trinity College Dublin. She taught in the 
English Department at Victoria College at the University of Toronto where she 
specialized in twentieth-century modernist fiction.
Following the birth of the first of her four children, Dr. Grove-White embarked 
on a career in electronic and print journalism; she has written for TV Ontario, 
CBC Radio and TV, as well as for a variety of national and international print 
media and her pieces appear regularly in the Globe and Mail. Dr. Grove-White 
has won several international awards for her journalism, the most noteworthy 
being Canada's first Peabody Award for a series of documentaries on childhood. 
Fascinated by computer technology since she worked as a student reporter on 
Computer Weekly (UK), much of Dr. Grove-White's recent academic research 
focuses on literacies and the impact of new media on culture and collective 
memory.

Currently a faculty member in the University of Victoria's Department of 
English, she has served as Director of the university's Professional Writing 
Program. She continues to supervise graduate students on topics associated with 
textual and cultural history.  She has served as Executive Director of the 
University of Victoria Co-operative Education Program since July 2000 and has 
written on the theory and practice of co-operative education in Canada.

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