SSR Seminar Series: “They Made Fun of Me for Being Different”: Experiences and Impacts of Childhood Bullying Among Young Persons with Disabilities in Singapore
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PhD Student
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of
Social Work,
University of Toronto &
Young NUS Fellow
Department of Social Work,
National University of Singapore
David Puvan (he/him) is a PhD student at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. He holds a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work (by Research) from the National University of Singapore. David is also a recipient of the NUS Development Grant. His research focuses on the use of participatory arts and theatre-based approaches to build critical consciousness and promote healing among multiply marginalized communities. Committed to research as a form of praxis and a platform to amplify silenced voices, David is actively engaged in qualitative research in the areas of bullying, violence, minority-stress and mental-wellbeing. Outside of research, David is also a trained applied theatre practitioner (specifically Theatre of the Oppressed) and facilitates workshops that use theatre games and exercises for reflection, dialogue, and community-building.
Assistant Professor in
Disability Communication,
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information,
Nanyang Technological University
Kuansong Victor, Zhuang is Assistant Professor in Disability Communication at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. Prior to joining academia, Victor worked at SG Enable, the national agency for disability for over 7 years. He was a UK Chevening scholar in 2013/14, a 2022/23 Princeton University Fung Global Fellow and a visiting fellow at the University of Sydney in 2023/24. His research lies at the intersections of communications, media, and cultural studies, and disability studies, especially as it pertains to inclusion and the workings of technology. He hopes to use his research to contribute to current debates about how inclusion happens both in Singapore and around the world.
Find out more about his work at www.ksvictorzhuang.com