Community Engagement Directory This document lists University of Regina faculty, instructors, and staff who have an interest in working with the wider community in research, teaching, or service. A. Brenda Anderson Women's & Gender Studies and Religious Studies, Luther College E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (306) 585-5170 My research and community engagement focuses on two main areas. First, I work on issues relating to women in religion and specifically women in Islam. I am engaged in a project of interviewing Muslim women on their practices of veiling and not veiling, and their concerns about identities and security in Canada. I also work on interreligious dialogue from feminist perspectives. The second area I focus on is Stolen and Murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, examining global patterns relating to colonialism and sexualized racism manifested epistemologically as well as physically around the world. Keywords: women, religion, Islam, violence, race M. Isabel Azzopardi Literacy Facilitator Campus for All, Faculty of Education Email: [email protected] Campus for All is a pilot program that provides for 9 audit spaces for students with intellectual disabilities during fall and winter semesters. The steering committee has representatives from Regina Community Living, People First, and Faculty of Education and Registrar’s Office, students and parents. The instructors and student mentors volunteer. Mentors provide 15 hours of mentorship outside of class, and receive a letter of reference. A facilitator supports the mentors and keeps in communication with the instructors and the students and helps the students network. http://education.uregina.ca/index.php?q=CampusForAll.html Keywords: literacy Angelina Baydala Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts E-mail: [email protected] 1 Phone: (306) 585-4187 Research Interests: cultural, political, and spiritual issues in psychological health, histories and understandings of psychological healing. Keywords: health, political, psychology Gloria DeSantis, PhD Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 337-3252 I am currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the field of socio-health at SPHERU. Before academia, I spent 20 years working and volunteering in non-profit social service organizations. I’m interested in working with: marginalized communities, social determinants of health (e.g., poverty, social connectedness), mixing of qualitative and quantitative methods – including participatory action research approaches – in capacity/needs assessments, connecting governments and funders to communities for enhanced public policy-making, searching for "non-mainstream data" to tell a story, community capacity building and healthy communities frameworks, and the importance of and "how to" involve a variety of marginalized populations in community research and planning processes with a view for social change. Keywords: health, poverty, community development, community-based research Frédéric Dupré Directeur adjoint / Manager, Engagement communautaire / Community Engagement Institut français E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (306) 337-2357 The Institut français has a Community Engagement sector and strategy to foster mutually beneficial relationships between the University and the stakeholders and organizations of Saskatchewan’s francophone community. Our strategy of community engagement is a unique way to reinvent the university's social contributions to the francophone community development. It does so through collaborative and advocacy research, academic and cultural programs and by working on projects and partnerships that contribute to the vitality of the university-community relationship. Keywords: coordinator, francophone, community development 2 Fidji Gendron Assistant Professor of Biology Bachelor of Arts in Resource and Environmental Studies Program Coordinator First Nations University of Canada E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (306) 790-5950 ext. 3335 Dr. Fidji Gendron is interested in traditional uses of native plants. She works in partnership with Elders and has developed several booklets on plant medicines. Her latest project is to look at how plants are used to treat skin infection using bioassays and chemical analyses. She is also in charge of the Shared Garden, a community garden where gardeners give some of their crop to the First Nations University of Canada students. Keywords: biology, plants, health, First Nations Hirsch Greenberg Department of Justice Studies, Faculty of Arts E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (306) 585-4038 Areas of interest to me include teaching, research and practice: restorative justice, inter- professional and inter-organizational collaboration; housing and homelessness; victim services; justice; community development; community integration of offenders. Keywords: justice, housing, victims, offenders Mary Hampton Department of Psychology, Luther College E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (306) 585-4826 Dr. Hampton is the facilitator of the research team and the supervisor of the academic trainees. She is currently a Professor of Psychology at Luther College, University of Regina, and a registered Clinical Psychologist with the Saskatchewan Psychological Association. Dr. Hampton received her Ed.M. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University in 1980, and her Ed.D. in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University in 1987. Her research and teaching interests include women's health, adolescent sexual health, cross-cultural community development, community psychology, clinical and community psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and humanistic psychology. 3 Keywords: psychology, women, sexual health, community development Yolanda Hansen Community Research Unit, Faculty of Arts E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (306) 585-4084 My interests and work focus on community-based research, community service-learning and general community-university engagement. The Community Research Unit facilitates connections between the community and University of Regina, primarily but not exclusively through the Faculty of Arts. As Coordinator of the CRU, I help facilitate community-based research projects with community and university partners by connecting researchers with interested community groups and facilitating the process. I am also the primary organizer of the annual Arts CARES; a week-long service-learning program held during the February break for Arts students or any U of R student registered in participating Arts classes. Keywords: Coordinator, service-learning, community-based research Cindy Hanson Adult Education, Faculty of Education Email: [email protected] Phone: (306) 585-4513 Cindy Hanson is an educator/academic whose community work initially emerged from her rural, Saskatchewan roots but who has worked internationally in over 15 countries in the past two decades. Her teaching interests fall broadly into the category of adult and transformative education. Her areas of emphasis and research are critical education, feminism, communities of practice and international development. Recently she received funding for research on the Prairie School for Union Women, knowledge-sharing on pedagogical practices toward internationalization, and building collaborations with Indigenous communities of practice. Keywords: adult education, transformative education, feminism, international development, communities of practice Larena Hoeber Faculty of Kinesiology & Health Studies E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (306) 585-4363 4 Teaching interests: In many of the courses I teach (volunteer management, diversity in kinesiology, sport and recreation), I encourage students to be active participants in the community as a means of understanding the concepts delivered in class, and to serve the community. Research interests: Community sport organizations, sport and recreation volunteers, in/exclusion in sport and recreation Keywords: community sport, recreation, volunteer management Margot Hurlbert Department of Justice Studies and Department of Sociology and Social Studies Fellow, Canadian Plains Research Center E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (306)-585-4232 My research focuses on the reduction of people’s vulnerability to climate change specifically in relation to water and societal decisions respecting water. Globally and locally the water ‘crisis,’ accentuated by climate change, is increasingly recognized as a crisis of water governance, or decision making processes of people, government, and business in respect of activities affecting water. One solution is governance through local water committees. This research explores the role of local water committees in the Prairie Provinces and identifies bridges assisting and barriers facing the committees in their role in water governance and the reduction of risk and vulnerability surrounding climate change. Keywords: water, climate change, policy Hussameldin Ibrahim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor - Process Systems Engineering, University of Regina E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (306) 337-3347 Dr. Ibrahim is one of the lead researchers in our world-renowned International Test Centre for CO2 Capture and is a pioneering developer of one of our most successful technologies – one of the world's most effective processes for converting hydrocarbon fuels (e.g. gasoline and natural gas) and bio-based fuels (e.g. glycerol and ethanol) to renewable