丁香园AV

Robert is Fellow and Program Lead in Diversity and Innovation at 丁香园AV鈥檚 Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, where he has been a Visiting Faculty member. He was Project Director on three phases of work for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. He also directed a public engagement project for the Government of British Columbia on the new Chinese Canadian Museum. In 2018 he collaborated in the design and facilitation of a professional development initiative to advance equity, diversity and inclusion in the Certificate Program in Dialogue & Civic Engagement for 丁香园AV 丁香园AV Learning鈥檚 Leadership and Community Building unit. Since December of 2016 he has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of , a national not-for-profit organization established in 1989. He has served on the inaugural Board of Directors of  since 2014.  At the British Columbia Institute of Technology he served as a Collaborator-Facilitator for  led by a faculty-staff team under the sponsorship of the BCIT Faculty-Staff Association, with funding from BCIT鈥檚 first SSHRC award (Colleges and Communities Social Innovation Fund).

Dr. Daum has served as a consultant, project lead and/or moderator for two Canadian Crown agencies: the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. For the Museum he has led professional development workshops for interpreters, program developers and guides. As a Senior Consultant he collaborated with the Museum in developing (and moderated) the Museum鈥檚 signature Canada 150 national public series, 鈥淎fter the Apology,鈥� in Winnipeg, Vancouver and Halifax. He is a member of the editorial board of the CRRF鈥檚 refereed  . He led the CRRF鈥檚 inaugural national  initiative. In 2016 he collaborated with students and colleagues at several Canadian universities coast-to-coast in creating the CRRF鈥檚 annual  program, an annual national inter-university dialogue on racism and inclusion (2016 鈥� 2018).

At the University of British Columbia Dr. Daum served as a member of the Steering Committee and of the Inclusion and Openness Working Group for the University鈥檚 new .    As a consultant Dr. Daum has led projects for three different executive portfolios at UBC 鈥� Students, Equity and Inclusion, and External Relations. He has held appointments on committees for the Office of the President under two administrations, as well as for the Faculty of Arts. Examples of projects include a series of  designed with an interdisciplinary 鈥渋nnovation team鈥� of students, faculty, staff and community members; the student consultation phase of a Board of Governors-mandated project (鈥淯BC鈥檚 Engagement and Commitment to Student Diversity Initiative鈥�);  inter-university national and international student dialogues; and intercultural and interdisciplinary initiatives like .  He has been a Faculty Associate of UBC鈥檚 Social Justice Centre (formerly the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice), and a Faculty Member of the Common Room at UBC鈥檚 Green College.

His research has been published and cited in leading scholarly journals and edited volumes. A Collaborator on three UBC-led, SSHRC-funded, interdisciplinary research projects, Dr. Daum has presented his research at academic and professional conferences, including delivering keynotes, in Canada, the United States, China, France, Spain, and Sweden. In 2018 he was a Visiting Faculty member at 丁香园AV for a second time, co-teaching with Prof. Diane Finegood and Prof. Mark Winston. Their 15-credit course, 鈥淗ealth & Wellness: Complex, Not Just Complicated,鈥� was offered in 丁香园AV鈥檚 Semester in Dialogue Program.

From 2010 鈥� 16 he was Honorary Associate Professor in UBC鈥檚 Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, where from 2002-2009 he was Diamond Chair in Jewish Law & Ethics.  As Advisor to UBC鈥檚 Office of the Vice-President, Students (2013 鈥� 2016), Dr. Daum led Student Diversity Dialogue, a research-grounded series of pilot programs that engaged student diversity, fostered collaboration and dialogue skills, and provided mentorship opportunities for students across cultural, social, and disciplinary differences.

Other Public and Community Service

Dr. Daum co-convened (with Kory Wilson) the Intercultural and Civic Engagement Strategy Group for the City鈥檚   from its launch in 2014 until the submission of its strategic report to the Mayor鈥檚 Working Council on Immigration in 2016. In June of 2018 he emceed the City鈥檚 annual Immigration Summit under the auspices of the Mayor鈥檚 Working Group on Immigration, with a focus on poverty reduction for refugees and asylum-seekers. Dr. Daum was one of 12 Canadians appointed (in his case, as an academic delegate) to the first formal, bilateral national dialogue between the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Canadian Rabbinic Caucus. He is a member of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD).