A New Look at Consumer Vulnerability: The Why, What, How and Where of Adopting a Strengths-Based Ap

KIND REMINDER!

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce that ServCollab is a co-sponsor of the event "A New Look at Consumer Vulnerability: The Why, What, How and Where of Adopting a Strengths-Based Approach" organized by BEST CENTER.

Four very interesting and thought-provoking presentations are included in the event:

- Why serving all of humanity is needed (Prof. Ray P. Fisk – ServCollab)

- What does it mean to change the narrative of consumer vulnerability using a strengths-based lens? (Dr. Rowan Bedggood – Swinburne University of Technology)

- How to move from loss to gain framing of social issues: The Women’s Butterfly, Project for empowering mature women (Prof. Rebekah Russell-Bennett – BEST, QUT)

- Where do human rights fit in strengths-based service design? (Prof. Maria Raciti – University of the Sunshine Coast)

Cost: FREE

Date: Tuesday 13th July Time: 9.00am – 10.30am (AEST)

Location: Online (via Zoom). Zoom details TBC.

You can register and find more information about the event here:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/a-new-look-at-consumer-vulnerability-tickets-160155781253

Remembering Tilly Edinger, the pioneering ‘brainy’ woman who fled Nazi Germany and founded palaeoneu

This year marks 100 years since the birth of palaeoneurology, the study of “fossil brains”. Notably, it serves as an important reminder of the late Tilly Edinger, without whom the field could not have evolved as it has. Tilly Edinger (1897–1967), a vertebrate paleontologist from Frankfurt, Germany, founded palaeoneurology in 1921 by combining her unique training in geology and neurology. She was the first person to apply a deep-time perspective to brain evolution, and consider endocasts from throughout the geological record as more than mere curiosities.

You can read more here:

https://theconversation.com/remembering-tilly-edinger-the-pioneering-brainy-woman-who-fled-nazi-germany-and-founded-palaeoneurology-160194?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3BL02EEgches9dh-ZdzT-E7MqKVPs-Gb_5lT2us_Sc4teiIcVw3iElujk#Echobox=1623051216

The US could be facing its worst drought in 1,200 years, and summer hasn't even reached its peak yet

The Washington Post reported on June 18 that more than 40 million Americans saw triple-digit temperatures where they live in the prior week. Temperature records were also broken in Salt Lake City last Tuesday when the weather services measured a high of 107 degrees, breaking the area's 147-year record for temperatures in June.

A scientist The Guardian spoke with even warned that the US could experience one of the worst droughts in its modern history.

"This current drought is potentially on track to become the worst that we've seen in at least 1,200 years. And the reason is linked directly to human-caused climate change," Kathleen Johnson, an associate professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, told the Guardian.

You can read more here: https://www.insider.com/the-west-coast-could-see-worst-drought-in-1200-years-2021-6?utm_campaign=sf-bi-main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR2Nw5Q2Hu-9XTnfVN74o-WTZMVuMPsGE7c-dYVli3Ln6NT6iBNXopeq2eA