Jean Hill
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Posted in: Criminal Justice, Marginalized Groups, Public Policy, Violence PreventionWe, the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA), are in solidarity with those calling to move funding out of policing and into systems that facilitate community wellness. For this reason, we take up policing as an institution.
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Posted in: Anti-Racism, Marginalized GroupsIn response to the repeated police killings of Black people, including the recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks, and the global mobilization demanding structural change to ensure that Black Lives Matter, the Society for Community Research and Action membership pulled together resources to support awareness raising and action for […]
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Posted in: Sense of Community | Tags: PodcastsOn this episode of RadioActive I bring you the Online Technologies Lab researchers who shared their work on Online Fighting Game Communities.
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Posted in: Marginalized Groups, Mental Health | Tags: PodcastsIn this episode of RadioActive Lauren Munro, a Ph.D. student at Wilifrid Laurier University, explains what fat activism is and how the social movement challenges stigmas around fatness.
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Posted in: Marginalized Groups, Violence Prevention | Tags: PodcastsDr. Tracy Hipp is a Community Psychology graduate from Georgia State University who has focused her research on developing an understanding of the experiences of sexual violence of non-heterosexual and non gender conforming women through the inclusion of their often excluded voices.
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Posted in: Environment, Marginalized Groups, Uncategorized | Tags: PodcastsDuring this interview Dr. Riemer explains the complexity of the concept of Sustainability and argues for the need for more social science in sustainability research – stating that “we need to breathe air, but we also need to be in community”.
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Posted in: Healthcare, Marginalized Groups | Tags: PodcastsThere are communities facing risk of genocidal impact due to HIV/AIDS including black men, and indigenous communities, who are largely ignored or delegitimized in their experiences and differential health outcomes. Dr. Wilson’s work highlights the need to reclaim narratives of resistance by immigrants, communities of colour and indigenous communities.
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Posted in: Marginalized Groups | Tags: PodcastsIn this special episode of RadioActive, Dr. Dominique Thomas and Allana Zuckerman join Natalie to talk about the upcoming Black Lives Matter special issue of the journal, Community Psychology in a Global Perspective.
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Posted in: Education, Marginalized Groups | Tags: PodcastsFor this episode of RadioActive Natalie took a stop over in Atlanta, Georgia to interview Dr. Dominique Thomas about his recent research on campus racial climate for African American Students.
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Posted in: Public Policy, Violence Prevention | Tags: ResearchA policy brief developed by the Research-to-Policy Collaboration with support from the Society for Community Research and Action. Approximately 40 million people worldwide, including many in the United States, are estimated to be victims of human trafficking — a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control both adults […]
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