How can communities better prepare and respond to natural hazards and disasters? In what ways can community science empower community members to build disaster resilient…
As the weather is getting colder, a long-time advocate for marginalized members of the city of Kamloops is speaking out about the homelessness crisis and…
Shay Pearson, who earned a Bachelor of Social Work at TRU in 2006. is a finalist for the Premier’s Innovation and Excellence award. The Peter…
A TRU faculty member living on the North Shore is working to make his neighbourhood better prepared for fires. Bala Nikku, an assistant professor with…
TRU faculty member Bala Nikku offers his perspective on rebuilding Lytton as a place which is safer, stronger, smarter, resilient, but also culturally appropriate and…
TRU Associate Professor of social work Wendy Hulko and University of Windsor Associate Professor of nursing Noeman Mirza studied early media coverage of the COVID-19…
Natalie Clark, a faculty member at TRU, suggests ways that RCMP officers can better connect with Indigenous people, particularly when there is a situation of…
Radio NL talked with Lorry Ann Austin from TRU's School of Social Work and Human Service about the importance of social workers during the pandemic.…
TRU's Oleksandr Kondrashov, who teaches in the School of Social Work and Human Service, has completed a map of houses in Kamloops with notable holiday…
How has working in a pandemic impacted the mental health of frontline health-care workers? For those who are coping well, what has made them resilient?…
How has working in a pandemic impacted the mental health of frontline health-care workers? For those who are coping well, what has made them resilient?…
Jaden Stefanyk from Dawson Creek spoke at TRU's Virtual Spring Convocation as valedictorian of the 2020 Faculty of Education and Social Work class and graduated…
She’s the world’s first Canada Research Chair in Indigenizing higher education. And she has provided face masks to communities across Canada, to the Navajo Nation…
[caption id="attachment_1986150" align="alignright" width="350"] Dr. Wendy Hulko[/caption] It is time to explore social work and aging differently. When Wendy Hulko and collaborators Shari Brotman (McGill…
Excited, giggling kids marching about, adults scurrying after them, joyful exclamations, and abandoned, half-eaten mandarin oranges filled the ordinarily peaceful, serene space of the round…
Dr. Rebecca Sanford teaches in the School of Social Work and Human Service. Her primary area of expertise is suicide and mental health. She talks…
TRU faculty member Dr. Rebecca Sanford, who teaches in the School of Social Work and Human Service, is also a clinical social worker, researcher, educator…
Thompson Rivers University assistant professor Dr. Bala Nikku talked with Radio NL's Howie Reimer about the threat of earthquakes in British Columbia. [audio mp3="http://inside.tru.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/july-9-dr.-bala-nikku.mp3"][/audio]
This story first appeared in the spring 2019 edition of Bridges Magazine: The Sustainability Issue. Bridges is the official publication of TRU alumni and friends,…
Former TRU WolfPack soccer star Tim Unaegbu saw life through a different lens this past year living and working in South Korea. His vision, memories…
