After a successful run with the first three presentations in its 41st anniversary webinar series, the Social Development Research Center conducted its initial online workshop on September 11 entitled “A Guide to Qualitative and Quantitative Research.” With College of Liberal …
The Social Development Research Center has accepted an invitation to join the Dignified Pacific Initiative (DPI), whose goal is to empower communities in the Pacific region to rearticulate the role and worth of their cultural and natural resources as contributions …
The Social Development Research Center displays its range of expertise once more as it establishes a groundbreaking new program in response to the “new normal.” This term, it welcomes Dr. Kaitu’u ‘I Pangai Funaki, founder of the Dignified Pacific Initiative …
Social norms are difficult. All people do the same things, or else they face exclusion from society. This harsh but inescapable reality was tackled by Rajan Parajuli, resident representative for the Population Media Center in Nepal, in a presentation entitled …
Sustainable development can only happen if we see not what we lack, but how we can be solutions. This was a central point in the presentation made by Dr. Kaitu’u ‘I Pangai Funaki on the “Art of Reciprocity (Fefoaki’aki) in …
How do we solve a problem like LGBTQ+ access to health services? This is what Dr. Cameron McKenzie, a social worker and assistant professor from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, set out to do in the first webinar in …
Social media company Facebook announced the recipients of the Ethics in Artificial Intelligence for the Asia Pacific research awards on June 17, 2020. Among the winners named in the public announcement were SDRC Director Dr. Melvin A. Jabar and senior …
‘We receive no incentives, there is no age limit to who can do our work. Because our passion is to care for children, this is what we do.” This poignant “selfie” of a Child Development Worker (CDW) was one among …
Dr. Pilar Ramos Jimenez has been appointed as DLSU’s Scientist-in-Residence, particularly for the Social Development Research Center (SDRC), effective September 2019. Dr. Ramos-Jimenez served as a faculty member of the Behavioral Sciences Department for over two decades. She initiated the …
The Buzzooks.com site features news this week on former SDRC research assistant Kent Tangcalagan, who was part of the team led by Dr. Ma. Elena Chiong-Javier on the project “Conservation Agriculture for Food Security in Cambodia and the Philippines” …