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Friday, December 4, 2020
A group of ALiGN’s international partners, including members from non-profit organizations and the academic sector, came together in October for a virtual brainstorming session to discuss refugees’ media and communication practices in the times of COVID-19. Organized by Dr. Ghadah Alrasheed, Interim co-Director of the ALiGN Media Lab, in... More
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Research on the coverage of refugees reveals that less than a quarter of all news articles on migration or refugee issues mention a refugee or migrant, and far fewer directly quote them. Kathy Dobson and Ghadah Alrasheed, Interim co-Directors of ALiGN Media Lab, became more aware of this issue after they visited Nairobi last... More
Monday, August 12, 2019
ALiGN is proud to announce that, thanks to its partnership with LERRN: the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network at Carleton University, two of our writers and researchers, Kathy Dobson and Ghadah Alrasheed, have been invited to participate in the annual "Forced Migration Training" camp at the Kenya School of Government in Nairobi at the... More
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Last August, ALiGN participated in the AgroEcology Field School and Research Summit 2018, hosted by FLEdGE, Lakehead University, USC Canada, and Just Food. The event took place from August 16th to 18th, with two days of field-visits and a full-day workshop on the future of agroecology in Canada. In the workshop, farmers, researchers, community... More
Friday, November 30, 2018
On November 30th, 2018, ALiGN Media Lab--in a collaboration with the Faculty of Public Affairs, School of Journalism and Communication, and Véhicule Press--proudly co-hosted a launch for ALiGN researcher Kathy Dobson’s latest book Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada’s Toughest Neighbourhood. The book shares Dobson’s experience of growing... More
Thursday, March 29, 2018
On Saturday, 24 March 2018, ALiGN Media Lab hosted its first community workshop at Bronson Centre, Ottawa with Dr. Anna Feigenbaum as the presenter/facilitator. In this "Data Mining & Infographics for Advocacy" workshop, participants learned about basic techniques and tools to utilize and visualize data for social justice. The workshop... More
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