Upcoming conference at the University of Toronto Mississauga:
BUILDING BRIDGES: NAVIGATING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GRADUATE STUDENTS AND VULNERABLE OR MARGINALIZED PEOPLES AND COMMUNITIES
April 9, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm
Building Bridges has been designed as a series of workshops encouraging discussion, research, and cross-community engagement between current and future professionals in health care, law, policing, criminology, and forensic science, and the individuals or communities at risk of interactions with such.
Conference sessions are focused on both the consideration of vulnerable persons and/or marginalized communities in research and practice, as well as the consideration of graduate students as individuals in conflicting positions of privilege and precarity. Graduate students will be introduced to managing the stresses of graduate school and prebuilding resiliency, specifically in future positions where there may exist a high-risk of direct or vicarious trauma. In addition, attendees will partake in discussions surrounding current practices and future outlooks regarding interactions with vulnerable persons and/or marginalized communities in the aforementioned fields, and become familiar with the skills beneficial for such. Overall, the aim of this conference is to generate a stronger, more nuanced, and more empathetic understanding of vulnerable and marginalized peoples and communities, and facilitate movement towards positive interaction through further outreach, research, and education.
While the target audience is graduate and professional students in the fields of l aw, health care, policing, criminology, and forensic sciences, early career researchers and working professionals in the aforementioned fields are encouraged to attend.
Submission of abstracts for poster presentations from students whose research involves working with vulnerable and/or marginalized peoples and communities is invited. Deadline – February 28, 2020.
Please visit the website for further information: https://buildingbridgesutm.wixsite.com/buildingbridges
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