Speaker: Diane Dupont, Professor of Economics

Recently named a Brock University Distinguished Professor, Diane Dupont is an internationally known expert in water and its valuation. Diane was a founding member of Brock’s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC) and a key collaborator in the Water Economics, Policy and Governance Network (WEPGN).

Her WIL talk is entitled “Moving beyond “homo economicus”: bringing heterogeneity to economics.”

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Speaker: Cathy van Ingen, Professor of Kinesiology

Cathy describes herself as a scholar-activist whose research examines the relationship between sport, inequality, and social change. Her work broadly explores gender-based violence, trauma-informed physical activity, geographies of sport, boxing, sport for development and peace, and documentary filmmaking. Cathy co-founded ‘Shape Your Life,’ a free, non-contact, trauma-informed boxing program for women-identified survivors of violence, and later founded ‘Shape Your Life Youth’, focusing on youth who have experienced violence and/or trauma. 

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Speaker: Arja Vainio-Mattila, Provost and Vice-President, Academic

Arja joined Brock University in July, bringing with her nearly 30 years of experience in institutional development and global leadership. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Turku, Finland, a Master of Philosophy in Geography from the School of Oriental and African Studies in the U.K., and a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology and Geography from University College London.

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