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Interview with Susan McGrath on Zoomer Radio

mmillard — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:34:17 +0000

(Sept. 3 2015) Susan McGrath interview on Goldhawk Fights Back, Zoomer Radio

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Ottawa will help Syrian refugees if the feds ask, Mayor Jim Watson says

mmillard — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:57:10 +0000

(September 3, 2015) Ottawa will help Syrian refugees if the feds ask, Mayor Jim Watson says, by David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen

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Video on the Refugee Research Network as Socially Engaged Research

mmillard — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:53:31 +0000

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BHER In the News

mmillard — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:42:02 +0000

To read more about the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project in the news, you can refer to BHER In the News

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15 TED Talks on refugee resilience

mmillard — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:33:06 +0000

http://innovation.unhcr.org/15-ted-talks-on-refugee-resilience/

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Can Canada duplicate its boat people rescue with Syrian refugees?

mmillard — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 20:33:16 +0000

The summer of ’79 was just starting. The Pope was Polish, Sony had introduced the first Walkman and Gloria Gaynor was tearing up the disco scene with “I Will Survive.”

Howard Adelman, a 91��ɫ philosophy professor, was ending weeks of isolation at his cottage on an island in Georgian Bay, where he had been working on a book about German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

He had also just written an article on research into the reception German Jewish refugees received in Canada, the United States and Britain in the late 1930s.

Returning to Toronto for a weekend, Adelman began wading through six weeks of newspapers and was stunned to see the Vietnamese “boat people” crisis had exploded across the news during his absence.

Countries neighbouring Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos were swamped as tens of thousands of refugees fled the chaos of Communism.

“One couldn’t help wanting to do something and say, ‘Never again!’ ” Adelman recalls.

True to his background as a 1960s activist and co-founder of Rochdale College, Toronto’s controversial experiment in alternative education, he called a meeting, inviting a local Catholic priest, two rabbis, an alderman and ministers from the Anglican and United Churches to his house to discuss the crisis.

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Susan McGrath appointed to the Order of Canada

mmillard — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 20:29:00 +0000

91��ɫ researcher Susan McGrath (MES '90), a professor in the School of Social Work in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada for her contributions to research and policy on refugee rights and for fostering collaboration among scholars in her field.

McGrath’s academic and research interests include: developing a global refugee research network (), refugee resettlement, community development, community-based mental health programs and transnational social work.

She serves as a member of the boards of the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture and the journal Refuge. Her research and writing focus on community work with vulnerable populations, including refugees.

Her current funded projects explore the impact of collective trauma on community practice with refugees, GLBTT and Aboriginal populations; examine social sustainability among newcomers in three Canadian cities; and support the development of social work in Rwanda.

Recently, she and colleagues in Canada and Sudan studied enterprise development needs in camps for the internally displaced in Southern Sudan and Darfur. McGrath is the principal investigator of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Strategic Knowledge Cluster grant to support the development of Refugee Research Networks across Canada and globally.

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2014

mmillard — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:54:23 +0000

(December 26, 2014) Four 91��ɫ community members appointed to Order of Canada, YFile (September 26, 2014) Can Canada duplicate its boat people rescue with Syrian refugees?, Toronto Star (September 10, 2014) 91��ɫ researcher nominated as finalist for prestigious SSHRC Impact Award

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2013

mmillard — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:53:16 +0000

(November 6, 2013) Training teachers at the world’s largest refugee camp, University Affairs (October 6, 2013) Bringing Universities to Refugee Camps in Kenya, New 91��ɫ Times (October 3, 2013) Can education be a challenge to terror? op ed published in The Globe and Mail (February 4, 2013) 91��ɫ receives $6.2 million from CIDA for international […]

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2012

mmillard — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:52:27 +0000

(Oct 15, 2012) , The Guardian, UK

(Sept 18, 2012)

(September 16, 2012)

(September 15, 2012) , op ed published in the Toronto Star, written by Benjamin Berger and .

(August 21, 2012) (Part 2 of podcast)

CBC "As It Happens" podcast of interview with CRS Community Scholar Hassan Shire Sheikh

(April 10, 2012) Online learning inspires refugees, IRIN Africa:

(Mar. 14, 2012) Refugee policies should be based on fact, not fiction, Embassy Magazine:

(also available at )

(Feb. 22, 2012) CBC Metro Morning Podcast about offering online programs to refugees in camps:

(Feb. 2, 2012) 91��ɫ project offers higher education to refugees

A project that offers students an opportunity to take a course with Burmese refugees who are half a world away in camps on the Thai-Burma border.

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