Dr. Alex Michalos, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) gold medalist for research achievement whose significant contributions to research in his field have helped to improve the human condition, will deliver two talks at TRU this month.

At 7:30 pm on Monday, January 16th, he will speak on Canadian Well-Being, and on Tuesday, January 17th, he will deliver a talk at 11:30 am on the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. Both talks will be presented in the Alumni Theatre located in the TRU Clock Tower building, and are free and open to the public.

Dr. Michalos, who established the now-32-year-old international, interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, Social Indicators Research, is the author of 17 books, 88 scholarly articles and 180 book reviews.

He served as a consultant for both governments and non-governmental organizations in North America, Europe and Africa on quality of life issues and social indicators, and in 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, where he served in a variety of positions, including President of Academy II, Chair of the Annual Program Committee, and as the Royal Society’s representative on UNESCO.

Dr. Michalos has also been elected to a number of other key posts, including President of the International Society for Philosophy and Technology from 1983 to 1985, President of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies from 1998 to 2000, and President of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Sectoral Commission on Natural, Social and Human Sciences in 2004.

He received a TRU honorary doctorate last June.

For more information, please contact Derek Cook at 828-5244 or by email.