On the Edge: Emerging Scholars

On the Edge: Emerging Scholars is a speaker series featuring cutting edge research presented by emerging scholars and researchers from Edmonton's academic community. Presented in partnership with the University of Alberta's Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. This is an online event hosted on Zoom. A link to the session will be emailed to registrants a few days beforehand. Please register using this link: Zoom, a third-party app, will be used for this virtual session. By joining, you acknowledge that EPL does not take responsibility for Zoom's privacy policies and practices. Presenter Name: Mariane Kalliny Mariane Kalliny is a Coptic Canadian researcher and community advocate based in Edmonton, Alberta. Her work is grounded in a commitment to understanding how culture, faith, migration, and stigma shape people’s experiences of mental health and care. Through her graduate research at the University of Alberta, she explores these questions with Coptic Orthodox communities, centring lived experience and culturally safer approaches to wellbeing. Fluent in English and Arabic, Mariane values curiosity, connection, and learning from diverse communities. Outside of research, she enjoys reading, swimming, travelling, and spending time with her cat, Dolly. Title: Bridging the Culture Gap: Learning and Advocating for Mental Health Knowledge within My Community Studies have shown that immigrants and refugees are statistically more likely to suffer from mental health concerns due to pre- and post-migration trauma. By reflecting on my own experiences as an Egyptian-born immigrant in Canada, and diving into the collective trauma within the Coptic Orthodox community, I researched the mental health experiences of my community in Alberta. In this talk, I will share what led me to my research, my experience working both formally and informally with community members, and the advocacy work done and to be done in

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