Multidisciplinary Applied Research at King's (MARK) Networking Event

We are pleased to invite you to attend the Multidisciplinary Applied Research at King’s (MARK) Networking Event. This event is designed to promote community-university partnerships that would foster collaborative research initiatives in pursuit of MARK’s mission to “facilitate and showcase innovative research with applications for the betterment of individuals and/or society.”

The event will feature presentations by two leaders in building university-community collaboration, Dr. Karen Bax of the Mary J. Wright Research and Education Centre at Merrymount, and Dr. Mohammed Baobaid of the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support & Integration.

Dr. Karen Bax is an Assistant Professor within the Faculty of Education at Western University. Registered as a Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Bax engages in training future scholars and practitioners through teaching and as the practicum supervisor for students in the Ph.D. in School and Applied Child Psychology program. Dr. Bax is also the Managing Director of Western’s Mary J. Wright Research and Education Centre at Merrymount, a unique university-community collaboration that emphasizes early child development research in real-world settings and knowledge sharing across systems. Dr. Bax is involved in applied research related to social-emotional learning and self-regulation of children who have experienced adversity.

Mohammed Baobaid, PhD, earned his doctoral degree from the institute of Psychology at the University of Erlangen Nurnberg in Germany and is currently the Executive Director and founder of the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration (MRCSSI). Dr. Baobaid has been instrumental in initiating research elements in works related to violence prevention including family violence and youth violence. For 30 years he has conducted research to identify challenges of working with victims of family violence and developing culturally appropriate responses to family and youth violence in Yemen and Canada.

Refreshments will be provided.

Paid parking is available directly to the West of Innovation Works and street parking is available on the North and South side of King St and on Clarence St.

This event is business casual.