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Improving how we understand and measure sexual wellbeing to capture human flourishing and social justice

Presentation by Dr Karen Lorimer
Co-Coordinator, HDCA Thematic Group on Gender and Sexuality

Dr Karen Lorimer (BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD, PGCAP, FHEA) is a Reader in Social Science and Health, in the School of Health & Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. She is a sociologist, interested in sexual health, sexual wellbeing, capability approach and gender-based violence. She currently leads a British Academy/Leverhulme project on working class women and sexual violence.

Karen is an active member of the Gender Research and Equalities Network at GCU. She is a member of the Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses, and is a member of the Scottish Government’s National Monitoring and Research Group (NMRG).

HDCA Webinar Gender and Sexuality Health and Disability HDCA Videos
38 minutes

Engaging Communities in Case-Study Research to Transform Institutions––and How Spiritual Capabilities can Contribute

The Human Rights Thematic Group hosts a presentation by TG member Bill Walker, Ridley College, Melbourne, who picks up from Dustin Sharp’s recent talk to the HDCA Human Rights Thematic Group introducing the concept of a “larger we” (https://hd-ca.org/videos/a-larger-we-spirituality-identity-human-rights-and-social-change). In this presentation he describes his own spiritual journey of engaging with injustice through advocacy and other action for, with, and by communities. 

HDCA Webinar Human Rights HDCA Videos
95 minutes

A Larger We: Spirituality, Identity, Human Rights, and Social Change

Dustin Sharp, Associate Professor at the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego.  

Dustin Sharp formerly served as researcher for Francophone West Africa at Human Rights Watch. He has published with Human Rights Quarterly and the Journal of Human Rights. He is the author of Rethinking Transitional Justice for the 21st Century: Beyond the End of History (CUP 2018).

HDCA Webinar 2022 Human Rights
59 minutes
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