Author Archives: Dusty Columbia Embury
Columbia Embury www.wright.edu
Author Archives: Dusty Columbia Embury
Columbia Embury www.wright.edu
Blog post by Alfredo Ortiz Aragón I’ll add an example of my own; one that touches on the need for context-specific practice, which I successfully avoided for years! (yet not on purpose). For many years I facilitated organizational capacity self-assessments, meant to help NGOs with whom we were working to better understand their strengths and weaknesses […]
Read More...Dr. Svante Lifvergren writes of our work, ““An ageing population with more citizens suffering from multiple diseases is putting increasing pressure on the healthcare system. To meet these challenges, it is imperative to invite elderly to co-create new structures and processes together with the care provider to transform the care system. “Active ageing” seeks to […]
Read More...Blog post by Jasmine Lambert “practivist [prak-ti-vist] :a person who works in a professional manner, or regularly does an skill or activity that requires practice, to support causes they care about” An Ideal Professional During a recent event (called “Deans’ seminar”) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), we (current […]
Read More...I am in the early stages of the fieldwork of my PhD research project which focuses on the impact of infant massage on families at times when they are also facing challenging life circumstances. I am a student at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) in Birmingham and the University of Wolverhampton (both […]
Read More...blogpost written by Deborah Isobell Imagine the amount of funding that research projects receive every year. Not just nationally, but globally. Now take a moment to think about the knowledge generated from that research. Is it being used to its full potential to change peoples’ lived experiences? In instances where the application of research-derived knowledge […]
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