A Gender Institute Research Seminar led by Dr Olena Hankivsky
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Wednesday 11 March 2015
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6-7.30pm
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Vera Anstey Room, Old Building
Grounded in a rich history of black feminist scholarship and activism and formally coined in 1989 by black legal scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, intersectionality has been used across a number of disciplines such as gender studies, political science, history, sociology, law, psychology, and health to advance alternative conceptualizations of human identity, differences and diversity. Consequently, intersectionality is now recognized as an innovative research and policy paradigm for mitigating inequities and promoting social justice. Dr. Hankivsky’s public lecture will present methods for applying intersectionality to research and policy policy and provide examples of the 'value-added' of this approach for understanding and responding to pressing and important issues of our time.
Olena Hankivsky, PhD – Professor, School of Public Policy; Founder and Director of the Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver Canada. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 2009, Dr. Hankivsky was awarded two of the most prestigious research awards in Canada: a Research Chair in New Perspectives in Gender and Health by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a Senior Scholar Career Award in Population Health by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
Dr. Hankivsky is an internationally recognized expert in gender mainstreaming, gender based analysis and intersectionality-based analysis. Her research has been published in Social Science and Medicine, American Political Science Review, Critical Public Health and International Journal of Health Services and Policy and Society. Among her publications are Women’s Health in Canada: Critical Perspective on Theory and Policy (University of Toronto Press, 2007) and Health Inequities in Canada: Intersectional Frameworks and Practices (University of British Columbia Press, 2011) and Gender, Politics and Society in Ukraine (University of Toronto Press, 2012), Intersectionality Based Policy Analysis (Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy 2012).
Olena Hankivsky, PhD
Visiting Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Professor, School of Public Policy. Director, Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy Simon Fraser University