Kristi Heather Kenyon
Kristi Heather Kenyon is an Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg’s Global College where she teaches in the Human Rights Program. Her research is at the intersection of political science, public health, development, human rights and law. She focuses on the ways that human rights and health are understood and implemented. She is particularly interested in innovations in health and human rights promotion and protection at local and community levels that have a concrete impact on people's lives.
Originally from British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, Kristi completed her BA in Political Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC), moved to the UK to earn an MA in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, and returned to UBC completing her PhD in Political Science in 2013. She subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University and in the Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (South Africa).
Kristi’s research is inspired and informed by a previous career as a human rights practitioner and by ongoing hands-on engagement. She has worked with the Amnesty International International Secretariat (London), the Asian Institute for Development Communication (Kuala Lumpur) and the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (Gaborone). She currently sits on the City of Winnipeg’s Human Rights Committee of Council and is the University of Winnipeg faculty liaison for the Canadian International Council - Winnipeg Branch.
website: U of W Faculty | Personal
Originally from British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, Kristi completed her BA in Political Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC), moved to the UK to earn an MA in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, and returned to UBC completing her PhD in Political Science in 2013. She subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University and in the Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (South Africa).
Kristi’s research is inspired and informed by a previous career as a human rights practitioner and by ongoing hands-on engagement. She has worked with the Amnesty International International Secretariat (London), the Asian Institute for Development Communication (Kuala Lumpur) and the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (Gaborone). She currently sits on the City of Winnipeg’s Human Rights Committee of Council and is the University of Winnipeg faculty liaison for the Canadian International Council - Winnipeg Branch.
website: U of W Faculty | Personal
Claire E. Brolan
Dr Claire E Brolan (PhD (Public Health) MA LLB (Hons) BA) is an interdisciplinary public health & policy scholar specialising in health and human rights, as well as the SDGs and health equity. Claire is based at the Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland (UQ) (Brisbane, Australia) and completed her post-doctoral studies on the right to health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, The University of Toronto. Claire also is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (QCIDD) at UQ. She is a qualified lawyer (non-practising), and has published over 60 peer-reviewed and other publications spanning the public health, human rights, law and justice disciplinary domains. Claire is passionate that game-changing public health, rights & development research is translated into multi-sectoral policy and legal/regulatory impact, and advocates embedding participatory governance structures in public health (and inter-related/cross-sectoral) decision-making.
Regiane Garcia
Dr. Regiane Garcia is a Research Associate at the University of Winnipeg’s Global College. Dr. Garcia has a PhD in Law from the University of British Columbia, LLM in Law from the University of Toronto, and a Law Degree from Mackenzie University in Brazil, where she was admitted to the Brazilian Bar (1997) (currently non-practicing) and practiced civil law prior to academia. Dr. Garcia’s research interests focus on rights, law, policy, public health and social determinants of health. She is also working on the intersections between the health system, criminal system and multisectoral governance. Dr. Garcia has extensive experience in empirical legal research, qualitative research methods and data collection, and working with populations living where the DCC is located
Ada Chukwudozie
Ada Chukwudozie (MA Human Rights, LLB (Hons), BL) is currently a graduate student at the University of Winnipeg, pursuing a Master's degree in development practice- Indigenous development. Ada is a qualified lawyer (non-practicing) with an MA in Human Rights from University College London, and has been involved in the publishing of plain language summaries of systematic reviews for the Campbell Collaboration on a wide array of editorial topic areas including: methods, social welfare, education, disability, education, international development, and crime and justice. Ada is a passionate about issues of social justice and human rights and is an advocate of community-driven research that drives policy.
Ryan Coulling
Ryan Coulling (he/him) is a recent PhD graduate from Carleton University and a current Fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. Broadly, his research is grounded in aspects of social justice. He is interested in the ways that power is exerted—especially via emotional and affective reactions by people of privilege and from within institutions and social structures.
Ryan's research can be understood along three intertwined lines of inquiry.How do different systems of power and oppression interact to form complex identities? In what implicit and explicit ways are people implicated in these systems? In what ways are systems of power and oppression institutionalized? How might we work towards social justice if we and our society are co-constituted in systems of injustice? Central to my research agenda and these lines of inquiry is the desire to centre an intersectional analysis.
Ryan's research can be understood along three intertwined lines of inquiry.How do different systems of power and oppression interact to form complex identities? In what implicit and explicit ways are people implicated in these systems? In what ways are systems of power and oppression institutionalized? How might we work towards social justice if we and our society are co-constituted in systems of injustice? Central to my research agenda and these lines of inquiry is the desire to centre an intersectional analysis.