Meet our Visiting Scholars!

Dr. Narjes Azizi


Narjes Azizi received her Ph.D. in Sociology and MA in Social Science from Islamic Azad University, Iran. Currently, she is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Culture and Organizational Research (CCOR) at the University of Windsor and an honorary project director at the Nobel Institute of Environmental peace, Canada. Previously, she was a research assistant at Mellat Bank and a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Iran. As a mixed researcher, her research interests are institutional trust in the context of corporate social responsibility, employees' behavior, and social participation in organizations.

 

Dr. Youngkeun Kim

Professor Youngkeun Kim received his doctorate in educational counseling from the Department of Education, Seoul National University, Korea in August 2014, and has been teaching undergraduate and graduate students as an associate professor at the Department of Counseling and Psychotherapy, Inje University, Korea since March 2015. He is a counseling psychologist (No. 600) certified by the Korean Counseling Psychological Association, and has been providing counseling and psychotherapy to clients in Korea for about 20 years. His research interests are emotion, trauma, and therapeutic relationship, and in particular, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is his main theoretical basis. He believes that understanding emotions can be the foundation of human understanding, and expects that emotions can faithfully play a role as a bridge between the principles of psychodynamic psychotherapy and neuroscience, which are developing remarkably today.


Dr. Leesa Hooker

Associate Professor Hooker is a Principal Research Fellow and Associate Dean Research and Industry Engagement at the La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria in Australia. She leads research streams at La Trobe University on Preventing and Reducing Violence against Women, and Children and Child, Family and Community Health. Dr. Hooker has established expertise in the epidemiology of family violence, women’s mental health, sexual and reproductive health and parenting. Her research includes intervention trials, observation studies and systematic reviews with a focus on improving maternal and child health outcomes, and the healthcare service response to abused women and children.