Keynote Speakers Mary Daly and Michael Ungar
Our keynote speaker on Thursday, 15 May, is Mary Daly. She holds the Chair in Sociology and Social Policy based at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. She is a Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College Oxford and a member of the British Academy as well as the Academy of Social Sciences. Most of her work is comparative, in a European and international context. Substantively, she is interested in and has published widely on the following social policy areas:
- long-term care and care for children;
- gender inequality;
- family policy;
- poverty and welfare state reform.
Mary Daly’s research has been supported by, among others, the Economic and Social Research Council, Horizon Europe, ILO, Council of Europe, UNWomen and UNICEF. Her current research focuses on the concept of resilience and whether and how it can be applied to families. This research is being carried out under the sic-country rEUsilience project.
Our keynote speaker on Friday, 16 May, is the founder and Director of the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University, Michael Ungar.
In 2022, Dr. Ungar was ranked the number one social work scholar in the world in recognition of his ground-breaking work as a family therapist and resilience researcher.
His work has influenced the way human development and organizational processes are understood and studied globally, with much of Dr. Ungar’s clinical work and scholarship focused on the resilience of marginalized children, families, and adult populations experiencing mental health challenges at home and in the workplace.
Dr. Ungar’s work emphasizes how to use the theory of resilience to increase both individual and institutional agility during crises.
>> Read more about Micheal Ungar
>> Read Michael Ungar’s blog Nurturing Resilience | Psychology Today