[PEN] See you at PEN this week! + UW presentation

[Carrie Liston]

  Meeting this week

PEN members and friends:

We look forward to seeing you this Thursday at the Greenlake branch of
the Seattle Public Library from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Directions to our meeting
site are below.

 

Carolyn Cohen has arranged for mini-presentations on sessions from the
recent American Evaluation Association annual meeting. We will hear
from: Carlyn Orians, Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and
Evaluation; Dawn Hanson Smart, Clegg and Associates; Susan Sloan,
Whatcom County Health Department; Ron Maynard, Washington Department of
Health;  Bill Harris, Facilitated Systems; Bill Leon, Geo Education and
Research; Jami Bodyani Northwest Institute for Children and Family; and
Carolyn Cohen, Cohen Research and Evaluation. And our range of
presentations include: measuring advocacy endeavors, social networks and
diffusion, strategies for dealing with long distance evaluation, and
systems thinking in evaluation. See you there!

http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=branch_open_directions&branchID=11
<http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=branch_open_directions&branchID=1
1> 

 

 

Presentation at UW

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is pleased to be hosting Budd
Hall, Joan Wharf-Higgins and Elizabeth Grove-White from the University
of Victoria this week: 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 in the University of Washington School of
Social Work Building, Room 305, 4101 15th Avenue NE, Seattle.
Directions: 

http://depts.washington.edu/sswweb/directions.html
<http://depts.washington.edu/sswweb/directions.html> 

 

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,
community-university partnerships and community-based health
promotion/disease prevention initiatives. Please let me know as soon as
possible if you are interested in meeting with one or more of them
outside the seminar.  They have some time available on Wednesday
November 15.

 

Thanks!

 

Sarena

 

Sarena D. Seifer

Research Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Public
Health and Community Medicine Executive Director, Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health

Tel: 206-616-4305

Email: sarena at u.washington.edu

Website: www.ccph.info

 

Budd Hall, founding Director of the University of Victoria's new Office
of Community-Based Research, 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
<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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