Early career parenting in academia
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Speakers:
Dr. Bronwyn Bragg: Bronwyn Bragg is a SSHRC funded postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. Her current research examines the extended precarity facing migrant and refugees who work in the Canadian meatpacking industry. She is also working on a book based on ethnographic fieldwork with Syrian mothers and their children during their early years of settlement in Canada. Broadly her works examines the gendered and racialized dimensions of so-called 'integration' in Canada. Bronwyn is also mom to two boys: Henry born in 2018, and Robin born in 2021.
Dr. Pamela Baer: Dr. Pamela Baer (she/they) is a community activist, educator and artist with a focus on gender and sexual diversity in K-12 schools. Her current research program works to understand how performance and storytelling can be re-imagined as a collaborative approach to queer and trans pedagogy. Pam has worked alongside school boards, teachers, social service agencies, NGOs, and arts organizations to explore issues related to 2SLGBTQ+ experiences, HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, teen pregnancy, mental health, substance abuse, Indigenous experiences, homelessness, immigration, and family. Her approach to arts education is one that is highly participatory and most often draws on interdisciplinary artistic interventions to engage children and youth. The results of these projects vary from performances that are toured in schools, to YouTube videos posted to create an online dialogue. Their commonality lies in the centrality of creative work to provoke ongoing social, cultural and sometimes very personal conversations. Pamela holds a PhD in Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto where she currently works in teacher education with a focus on ‘Educational Research’, ‘Gender, Sexuality, and Schooling’, and ‘Critical Arts-Based Pedagogy’.
Dr. Sarah Flicker: Sarah Flicker is a full professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University (Toronto, Canada) where she holds a Research Chair in Community Based Participatory Research. Her research focuses on adolescent health promotion, and engages youth and allied actors in environmental, sexual and reproductive justice scholarship and activism. She is the mom of 11 year-old Gabriel and 8 year-old Gemma.
Location: Zoom