Contact Details
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- Position
- Research Fellow
- Department
- Department of Preventive and Social Medicine (Dunedin)
- Research summary
- Strength-based community and social development arenas
Research
Dr Jeremy Simons has over 20 years of experience teaching, training, researching, and working in strength-based community and social development arenas. This includes developing, implementing, evaluating, and supporting restorative justice and peace-building projects in community, school, indigenous, and transitional justice settings.
His academic interests span peace and conflict studies and intersect with anthropological and sociological approaches. He has taught social research methodology and conflict transformation at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and is an accomplished appreciative inquiry and adult education trainer.
His PhD research traced the development of indigenous Lumad justice and peace-building activism in Mindanao, Philippines. He has lived significant portions of his life in the Philippines, the United States and in New Zealand.