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While in Ireland as part of the latest Teach CoLab partner meeting, US-based sexual health educators Celia Thomas and Magdalene Tran join SETU’s Rob O’Connor in the studio to discuss their work and their relationship with Teach CoLab.  

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In March 2024, a number of students from the University of Washington Bothel (USA) and South East Technological University (Ireland) began an exchange programme, funded via Erasmus+ and facilitated through Teach CoLab.  

 

Rob O’Connor of SETU spoke with a number of the students about their attitudes and hopes for the exchange at the start of the process. This will be followed up another podcast at the end. On the panel were US Health Studies students Maya Nikolic and Andy Pham and Irish Health Promotion student Christina O’Reilly. Also in the studio was graduate Georgina Leahy who undertook a similar exchange in 2022. Georgina now works with the Youth Diversion programme The Sway Project. 

 

This podcast will be followed up with an “after” piece when the exchange has been completed.

Two exchange students from Washington State reflect on their experiences of life in Waterford, Ireland. In a very open and easy fashion, students Mindy Vu and Jennifer Dinh talk with Rob O'Connor (from Waterford) about the people they met and places they've visited during their time in Ireland. They also compare discuss differences in the academic approaches of the Irish and US systems.

This exchange was financed through Erasmus+ funding obtained by the Teach CoLab project. For more information, please visit teachcolab.org

The TEaCH CoLab group has enjoyed a number of onsite visits over the course of its life to date, but Covid called a halt to all of that for two years. However, this March (2022),  faculty from University of Washington, Bothell travelled to WIT to work on a variety of aspects of the TEaCH CoLab project. At the end of the visit, five members of staff recorded a podcast to reflect on the experiences of the previous few days. The panel talked about the importance of professional development and personal connection to this type of work, and the various ways in which the project has benefitted students, some of whom are now on an Erasmus+ exchange between campuses. They also discussed plans for the next phase of their work.

The panel includes Jody Early and Andrea Stone from the University of Washington, Bothell and Jenny O'Connor and Mairead Barry of Waterford Institute of Technology. Hosted by Rob O'Connor of WIT.

The panel talk about academic community engagement during the COVID pandemic. They discuss projects they're involved with, how they worked pre-COVID, how things changed during COVID and what lessons can be learned for future unforeseen events.

This podcast features Dan Bustillos and Kara Adams of the University of Washington Bothel and Aisling McGrath of Waterford Institute of Technology. Hosted by Rob O'Connor (also of WIT).

During the discussion, the panel reference some research papers they have written. Bibliographic references below:

McGrath, A., Murphy, N., Egan, T., Ormond, G., & Richardson, N. (2022). An Economic Evaluation of 'Sheds for Life': A Community-Based Men's Health Initiative for Men's Sheds in Ireland. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(4), 2204. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042204 

Kennedy, D. M., Adams, K., Bustillos, D., Carlisle, S. Ezeonwu, M., Hathaway, D., Lasker, G., Shinneman, A. (Accepted 8/18/2021) Reimagining Community Engagement Sustainability: Insights for the Post Pandemic World.Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. (Due to be published soon)

One of our own TEaCH CoLab colleagues, Jody Early interviews Professor Michael Harvey of Temple University in Philadephia. The interview took place as part of Jody’s role as social media editor for the peer reviewed journal – Pedagogy in Health Promotion. Michael Harvey is a professor of public health and recently wrote an award winning paper titled:

How Do We Explain the Social, Political, and Economic Determinants of Health? A Call for the Inclusion of Social Theories of Health Inequality Within U.S. Public Health Programs.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2373379920937719