Resilience - Lecture by Prof Shaul Kimhi

Research Support Assistant, Human & Health Research, University of Huddersfield

Martha McLean

Free and Public Event.
Professor Shaul Kimhi is visiting from Tel Hai College, Israel to give a lecture about the concept of resilience. The planned lecture will focus on:
- the meaning of resilience in social science and alternative definitions of resilience
- levels of resilience, individual community and national and associations among levels of resilience
- the balance between strength and vulnerability as a better indicator of resilience
- research approaches for measuring resilience
- self report Vs 'objective' indicators of resilience and alternative measures of resilience
and
- why it is important to study resilience from a theoretical and practical point of view.