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About the Class: |
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Many less-experienced HIV researchers from resource-limited settings are not familiar with the practices of writing up and publishing research for competitive international conferences or journals. Yet, there is an increasing need for research – and it’s dissemination – by early-career practitioner-researchers on the front line producing knowledge from practice– if there is to be continuous improvement in scaling-up HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in particular, and research capacity building. This paper reports on an online abstract mentoring programme conducted by the International AIDS Society aimed at less-experienced researchers, prior to the AIDS 2008 and IAS 2009 conferences. It explores how such online mentoring can not only build skills, but also enhance the induction of novices by mentors into the literacy practices of a global learning community. I will provide a demo. of the system (www.ias2009.org/mentor) and report on the results from the evaluation, as well as how such online mentoring can be scaled-up thanks to Web 2.0 technologies redressing the balance of access to desirable literacy practices.
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About the presenter:
Nellie Deutsch
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Gurmti graduated from Brown University (USA) In International Relations & Economics. After working in advertising and websites during the dot-com hey-day, he got into Business Communications Training for executives and civil servants in the Netherlands. He then pursued a Masters in Education, specializing in Trainer Development, at Exeter University UK. Gurmit then became a teacher trainer and educational researcher in the Center for Research into Pedagogy and Practice in Singapore. He was awarded the Presidential Scholarship to pursue my PhD in Education in Australia, but could not pursue it because he was denied a student visa for being HIV+. So, he spent a year on sabbatical and wrote a novel instead. After that, he became Coordinator for Education, Training and Mentoring at the International AIDS Society in Geneva Switzerland. His current job is now recast as Professional Development Coordinator. As he thinks of new ways to integrate health, media and education, I am trying out the WikiEducator community, and starting up a pilot on an HIV AIDS Portal. He hopes to develop ongoing virtual conferences, to create learning conversations to produce and not transmit received knowledge, by bringing scientists, educators, activists and people living with HIV together in a global learning enterprise integrating social learning, social justice, human rights, to realize the vision of universal access to health and education as one world.
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