Please find below suggested Dalhousie University experts on current topics of regional, provincial, national and international interest for Tuesday, April 2, 2019.
Former CWHL player concerned for future of professional women’s hockey
Dalhousie Expert: Shannon MacAulay, Assistant Coach, Dalhousie Women’s Hockey Team.
Research Specialties: Collegiate athletics, women’s hockey, international hockey.
Contact: sh329019@dal.ca and 902-978-1274.
Dalhousie faculty member awarded Canadian Senate Commemorative Medal for community-based research
Dalhousie Expert: Jeff Karabanow, Professor, School of Social Work.
Research Specialties: Homelessness and poverty, housing, international social work, homelessness and trauma, street youth, and street culture.
Contact: jeff.karabanow@dal.ca and 902-449-1426.
Reports of Canada warming up twice as fast as rest of the world are devastating for Arctic regions
Dalhousie Expert: Dr. Andrew Medeiros, Assistant Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies.
Research Specialties: Water security, community-based research and engagement, freshwater sustainability, paleoecology, biogeography, conservation Science, Arctic ecosystems.
Contact: andrew.medeiros@dal.ca and 902-494-6355.
Climate change, environmental racism, having significant impact on society’s most vulnerable
Dalhousie Expert: Ingrid Waldron, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Healthy Populations Institute.
Research Specialties: Medical sociology, sociology of health and illness, mental illness in Black Canadian, immigrant and Indigenous Communities, Environment Health Inequities.
Contact: iwaldron@dal.ca and 902-494-4267.
Federal political parties already in election mode
Dalhousie Expert: Dr. Howard Ramos, Professor, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology.
Research Specialties: Social justice and inequality, migration – immigration, social change, social movements, social statistics.
Contact: howard.ramos@dal.ca 902-494-3130/902-494-6595.