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Centre for Qualitative Research
School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University
Research Seminar
The Fragile Community: Communication, Health, and Community Building in an AIDS Residence
Professor Lawrence R. Frey
Department of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Wednesday 6 May, 2009
12- 1.30 pm,
Room B407, Bournemouth House,
Bournemouth University
You are cordially invited to the above lunch time seminar which is open to all. Please feel free to bring your lunch.
Abstract
This multimedia presentation examines the compelling concept of "community" that has captured the imagination of scholars and the public alike by exploring how collective communicative practices helped to create and sustain everyday communal life amidst the crises of human loss at Bonaventure House, a residential facility for people living with AIDS. Based on a decade of research and volunteer work, the presentation weaves together the voices of residents, staff, volunteers, and the researcher with photographic images to explore in an intimate, vivid, and compelling narrative form how residents moved from being a newcomer to a community member to someone the community remembered, and how the community "re-membered" after the loss of its members. In addition to lessons learned from this research about communication, health, and community, Frey explores the commitments, methodological practices, ethical dilemmas, and dissemination of activist scholarship designed to promote social justice.
Biography
Lawrence R. Frey is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. His teaching and research focus on applied communication (communication activism for social justice, community studies, and health communication), group communication, and research methods (both qualitative and quantitative). He is the author or editor of 15 books, three special journal issues, and more than 65 journal articles and book chapters, and he is the recipient of 14 awards for scholarship, including the 2000 Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship from the National Communication Association (NCA). His most recent book, Communication Activism (2 vols., coedited with Kevin M. Carragee), received the 2008 Outstanding Edited Scholarly Book Award from NCA's Applied Communication Division. He is a past president of the Central States Communication Association and a recipient of the Outstanding Young Teacher Award from that organization, as well as a recipient of the Master Teacher Award from the Communication and Instruction Interest Group of the Western States Communication Association.
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