This month, CQ bids farewell to Tenzin Butsang, our Administrative Coordinator for the past 5 years, and welcomes PhD student, David Puvan, to the team!
Tenzin joined CQ in May 2020 under Director, Dr. Brenda Gladstone. She is a PhD candidate in the Social and Behavioural Health Sciences Division of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Her dissertation research uses critical narrative inquiry to examine carceral parenthood through the experiences of formerly incarcerated Indigenous mothers. Tenzin is looking forward to defending her thesis this year and extends her deepest gratitude to the CQ community for making her time at CQ such a special one.
David Puvan is a second-year PhD student at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Originally from Singapore, he completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Social Work at the National University of Singapore. His research and practice centre on arts-based approaches to social justice, drawing on Freire’s critical consciousness and Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. David has also been an applied theatre practitioner for over a decade, and is passionate about fostering dialogue, reflection, and collective action through participatory arts-based methods. In this new role, he looks forward to contributing to the CQ’s mission of advancing critical and innovative qualitative inquiry.
We wish Tenzin all the best and thank her for her work with CQ and are pleased to welcome David to the team!
