Event Title
Community Wellbeing: What is it and how can research help produce more of it?
Description
Researchers can make a difference in improving wellbeing through being “committed, fair witnesses”. Committed to research that might improve the well being of families and communities. Fair in the sense of deploying the strongest research designs, methods, questions, and analyses we cam. Witness through ethnography, fieldwork, contextual and cultural understanding and direct, personal connection to the experiences of the participants in our research, as well as through distal, quantitative measures. Examples will include reducing poverty and improving children’ wellbeing among working poor; improving family accommodation to children with autism in India; understanding friendships and self-identity among youth with disabilities; and understanding the complexity of families and documentation status among immigrants in California.
About the Lecturer: Tom S Weisner, PhD is Research Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Departments of Psychiatry (Semel Institute, Center for Culture & Health) and Anthropology at UCLA
Document Type
Event
Start Date
8-10-2014 12:00 PM
End Date
8-10-2014 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Well-being; Pubic health; Families--Economic conditions; Family services
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Well-being, Wellbeing improvement
Rights
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Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Community Wellbeing: What is it and how can research help produce more of it?
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Researchers can make a difference in improving wellbeing through being “committed, fair witnesses”. Committed to research that might improve the well being of families and communities. Fair in the sense of deploying the strongest research designs, methods, questions, and analyses we cam. Witness through ethnography, fieldwork, contextual and cultural understanding and direct, personal connection to the experiences of the participants in our research, as well as through distal, quantitative measures. Examples will include reducing poverty and improving children’ wellbeing among working poor; improving family accommodation to children with autism in India; understanding friendships and self-identity among youth with disabilities; and understanding the complexity of families and documentation status among immigrants in California.
About the Lecturer: Tom S Weisner, PhD is Research Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Departments of Psychiatry (Semel Institute, Center for Culture & Health) and Anthropology at UCLA
