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TMCIS Lunch & Learn - Scanlon Foundation, its Research Institute, and the Annual Mapping Social Cohesion Report (Presentation by Anthea Hancocks)
- Date
- February 27, 2023
- Time
- 12:00 PM EST - 1:00 PM EST
- Location
- Virtual
- Open To
- Public, Students, Faculty, Researchers
In this special Lunch and Learn hosted by TMCIS, Anthea Hancocks (external link) discussed the work of the Scanlon Foundation and the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute in Australia. She also provided insight into the annual Scanlon Foundation Mapping Social Cohesion Report (external link) .
ANTHEA HANCOCKS is the CEO of the Scanlon Foundation and its Research Institute. She has an extensive background in social cohesion and community development, strategic planning, business development, community service, education, communications, and relationship and services marketing through senior, executive positions in private and publicly listed, government, professional services, academia and not-for-profit organizations in Australia and the USA. Anthea is chair of Welcoming Australia, the Huddle Advisory Committee, the Monash University Migration and Inclusion Centre Advisory Board, as well as a member of the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council of Adult, Community and Further Education. Anthea is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a visiting Civil Society Fellow at TMU's CERC Migration.
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.
