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Thank you to everyone who joined us in Halifax! Presentations that have been submitted are available for download.

Affiliated Research Centres









 

Principal Investigator

Dr. Michael Ungar - School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada


Director of Research

Dr. Linda Liebenberg - School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada



Co-investigators

Site Coordinators

Collaborators

Site Researchers / Research Associates



Co-investigators

Mr. Quinton Adams - Department of Educational Psychology and Specialised Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Dr. Ken Barter - School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland, Canada

Ms. Hania Bitar - PYALARA, East-Jerusalem, Palestinian Occupied Territories

Dr. Mary Armstrong - Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA

Dr. Roger Boothroyd - Department of Mental Health, Law and Policy, Tampa, Florida, Florida, USA

Dr. Tara Callaghan - Psychology Department, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada

Dr. Ann Cameron - Psychology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dr. Normand Carrey - Department of Psychiatry, IWK Children's Hospital, Halifax, NS, Canada

Dr. Maria Cheung - School of Social Work, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Dr. Luis Duque - School of Public Health, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Dr. David Este -Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Jane Gilgun - School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Dr. Nancy Heath - Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Dr. Christine Jourdan - Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Ms. Angela Ifunya - Protect Children's Rights Trust, Moshi, Tanzania

Dr. Wai-Man Kwong - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Dr. John LeBlanc - Department of Pediatrics, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada

Dr. Kathryn Levine - School of Social Work, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Dr. Bruce MacLaurin - Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Alexander Makhnach - Institute of Psychology and Psychotherapy; Institute of Psychology Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Father George Menamparampi - Don Brosco, Manipur, India

Dr. Jean Mitchell - Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada

Dr. Kader Musleh - Social Sciences Department, Bethlehem University, West Bank, Palestinian Occupied Territories

Dr. Fausta Philip - Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Chief Anastasia Qupee - Sheshatshiu Innu Band Council, Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canada

Dr. Les Samuelson - Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

Dr. Zahava Solomon - School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Dr. Eli Teram - Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Victor Thiessen - Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, NS, Canada

Dr. Nathalie Trepanier - Special Education, Department of psychopedagogie and andragogie University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Father Jerry Kulang Thomas - Don Brosco Provincial Office, Guwahati, Assam, India


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Site Coordinators

Mr. Quinton Adams - Department of Educational Psychology And Specialised Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Ms. Lyla Andrews - Sheshatshiu Innu Band Council, Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canada

Dr. Mary Armstrong - Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA

Ms. Hania Bitar
- PYALARA, East-Jerusalem, Palestinian Occupied Territories

Ms. Louanne Devanney
- The Nova Scotia-Gambia Association, Halifax NS, Canada

Dr. Luis Duque - School of Public Health, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Ms. Angela Ifunya - Protect Children's Rights Trust, Moshi, Tanzania

Dr. Kathryn Levine
- School of Social Work, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Dr. Alexander Makhnach - Institute of Psychology and Psychotherapy; Institute of Psychology Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Dr. Zahava Solomon - School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Dr. Linda Liebenberg - School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Dr. Tak-Yan Lee - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Dr. Wai-Man Kwong - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Father Jerry Kulang Thomas - Don Brosco Provincial Office, Guwahati, Assam, India


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Collaborators

Dr. Laura Abrams - Department of Social Welfare, UCLA School of Public Affairs, California, USA

Cindy Blackstock - Executive Director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Ontario, Canada

Judi Fairholm - Canada Red Cross

Dr. Michael Greenacre
- Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Wayne Hammond - Director, Resiliency Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada

Dr. Clyde Hertzman - Library Processing Center, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

Dr. Sylvia Kaaya - Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Dr. Silvia Koller
- Department of Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Anna Laktinova - Institute of Psychology Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Dr. Tak-Yan Lee
- University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Dr. Richard Lerner - Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, MA, USA; Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science

Dr. Hamilton McCubbin - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA

Dr. Patrick McGrath - IWK Health Center, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dr. Johann Mouton - Center for Research on Science and Technology, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Dr. Thomas Nochajsk - School of Social Work, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA

Dr. Irene Salam Singh - Head, Department of History, Manipur University, Imphal, India

Dr. Neerja Sharma - Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Childhood Studies, Lady Irwin College, University of Dehli, New Dehli, India

Mr. Toine van Teeffelen - Director, Arab Educational Institute, West Bank, Palestinian Occupied Territories

Dr. Wenxin Zhang - Faculty of Education, Shandong Teacher's University, Jinan, China


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Site Researchers / Research Associates

Dr. Marion Brown - School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Ms. Wanda MacDonald - Capital District Health Authority, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

Andrea Gregus - Speech Pathology, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

Danny Horesh - Tel Aviv University, Israel

Babita Nambam - Uripok Tourangbam Leikai, Manipur, India

Dr. Sharon Clark - Psychologist, Children's day treatment, IWK Health Center, Halifax, NS, Canada

Dr. Barbara Broom - Clinical Nurse Specialist, Child and adolescent mental health, IWK Health Center, Halifax, NS, Canada

Rasha Othman
- Pyalara, East-Jerusalem, Palestinian Occupied Territories

Osama Damo - Pyalara, East-Jerusalem, Palestinian Occupied Territories

Colombia Hernandez - School of Public Health, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Nachelle Nuna - Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Canada
 

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Latest News

CYRM

We are continuing with the validation of the current, 28-item version of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM). You can read about the development of the CYRM and its reliability and validity in the paper:

Ungar, M., Liebenberg, L., Boothroyd, R., Kwong, WM., Lee, TY., Leblanc, J., Duque, L., & Makhnach, A. (2008). The study of youth resilience across cultures: Lessons from a pilot study of measurement development. Research in Human Development, 5(3), 166-180.




Did you know that we now have four research programs running in more than a dozen countries worldwide? Visit our project pages to find out more.

Looking for books from the presenters at our June 2010 conference? The event bookseller still has copies and can ship them to you. Please see their website for details: www.kingsbookstore.ca


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Researching Resilience

 Resilience in Action

 

RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS
The RRC is committed to assisting the professional development of students and graduates interested in youth resilience and researching youth. Onsite internships are designed to provide participants with challenging work experience under the guidance and supervision of researchers with extensive knowledge of youth resilience and mixed research methods. Internships normally result in publications (see the various projects and publications on our website for more details).

While we are unable to fund internships, we are happy to provide mentoring to individuals who are able to secure their own funding to join the RRC team at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

If you are interested in applying, please submit a cover letter specifying your area of interest and anticipated goals, as well as the length of the internship you are seeking. A 3-5 page sample of your writing is also requested. Please contact us at:

RESILIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
6414 COBURG ROAD
HALIFAX NS B3H 2A7
CANADA

Applications can also be emailed to rrc@dal.ca


 

Conference Announcement:

Resilience - Why bother? Share, swap and debate resilience research and practice knowledge

University of Brighton, England, 6-7 April 2011

This exciting conference promises to be a creative mix of different individuals and groups, coming together to examine what resilience research is telling us AND consider ways of working in light of these findings. Just how does resilience help us to foster healthy responses in times of trouble?
The programme will include keynotes from leading international academics, parents, young people and practitioners. Expect workshops, panel debate, posters and networking.

To see the Call for contributions and further details, click here.


 


Last Updated: Jun 21, 2010