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Dr. Claudia Mitchell: Reimagining Social Justice

Claudia Mitchell is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated studies with the Faculty of Education at McGill University, and an Honorary Professor in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, where she established the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change. Dr. Mitchell is the winner of the 2022 José Vasconcelos World Award of Education from the World Cultural Council. In September 2015, Dr. Mitchell was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the Director of the Institute of Human Development and Well-Being within McGill Education. Her research interests span work in schools with teachers and young people, particularly in the context of gender, HIV, and AIDS; studies in Higher Education of mainstreaming issues of gender, HIV, and AIDS in South Africa and Ethiopia; girlhood studies, in particular, work related to gender-based violence; and participatory visual methodologies and community-based research in health education, housing and agriculture. In 2008 she was given an award by the Canadian Bureau of International Education for her innovative work with young people in development contexts. She is involved in a number of research projects. These include studies funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada on the uses of digital technology with teachers, and research on "what difference does this make?" in relation to arts-based methodologies for addressing HIV and AIDS in rural communities in South Africa; the Canadian Institute for Health Research in relation to the uses of participatory methodologies for working with aboriginal youth in addressing HIV and AIDS; and the National Research Foundation (South Africa) focusing on two key areas (gender and sanitation, indigenous knowledge and women teachers in the age of AIDS). Founder of YAHAnet and the Participatory Cultures Lab at McGill, Claudia is also an editor of the academic journal, Girlhood Studies.