Adjunct Professor
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Simon Carroll is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Victoria. He teaches a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. He has a particular interest in the areas of the sociology of aging, sociological theory, the sociology of health and illness, and in social justice and social inequalities. His research over the past 20 years has been focused on sociological approaches to understanding health systems, specifically focused on reorienting health systems from a health promotion perspective. Methodologically, he has been involved in an emerging approach to knowledge synthesis, called ‘realist synthesis’. He has also contributed to the development of a variant of participatory action research, called Collaborative Action Research, which uses community-based participatory research principles extended to multiple stakeholders in intersectoral settings. Over the past decade, he has been engaged in the field of Aging and Technology, working with the AGEWELL network and acting as Research Associate for the KISSS-AT project, an Implementation Science Team focused on assistive technologies to improve the health and well-being of older adults.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET