Climate realities in housing: advocating for change

The Australian Centre for Housing Research invites you to attend Climate Realities in Housing: Advocating for Change with guest speaker Associate Professor Julia Woodhall-Melnik, University of New Brunswick.

About the speaker:
Julia Woodhall-Melnik is an Associate Professor with the Department of Social Science, in the Faculty of Arts at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. She is also the Canada Research Chair in Resilient Communities. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and her Certification in University Teaching from the University of Waterloo where her research focused on investigating employment in low-waged service sector work as a social determinant of health. During this time, Julia also led a variety of analyses of publicly funded housing options for low-income households with non-profit organizations and academic think tanks. Julia held a Canadian Institutes of Health Research post-doctoral fellowship at McMaster University. Julia continues to produce innovative research which explores employment and housing as social determinants of physical and mental health, addiction and wellbeing. She is profoundly committed to incorporating the voices of persons with lived-experience of poverty and low-income into her research. Her goal is to produce research that positively impacts the quality of life of low-income and impoverished Canadians.