Part‑time Instructors

A long-time practitioner, Shelagh joined the IDS department in 2020 as a part-time lecturer of INTD3002 – “Development in Practice”. 

Prior to that, she was Associate Director (Partnerships) at the Coady Institute, responsible for equitable partnership development, program planning and educational design. This included facilitation of courses on Re-thinking Partnership as well as ABCD.

This was preceded by 20+ years of international cooperation with partners around the globe, including: innovative international programming (Country Director, WUSC Sri Lanka), Volunteer Cooperation (Executive Director, VSO Canada), and numerous global organizations focused on Youth leadership and Peacebuilding.

Committed to coalition building and collaboration to influence positive change, Shelagh has worked in partnership with CSOs in South Asia, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean; as well as with UN agencies such as ILO, UNOCHA and UNICEF.

She is also an active volunteer in Canadian networks, local community organizations and national boards. (including: Royal Roads University Advisory Council, GAC Covid-19 Solutions Team, Atlantic Council for International Cooperation)

As a practitioner, her research, conference presentations and publications include work on Equitable & Multi-stakeholder Partnerships, Facilitating Transformative Leadership Learning as well as Community Participation and Conflict Management.

Shelagh can be contacted at ssavage@dal.ca

Gianisa Adisaputri, M. Emergency Management (Auckland University of Technology), M.D. (State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah), is an award-winning scientist, physician, instructor and consultant. Dr. Adisaputri is an instructor in Dalhousie’s International Development Studies Department, and a PhD student in the Faculty of Health. Her research interests include access to healthcare, psychological resilience, and emergency management. Her dissertation investigates access to primary care among immigrant women in rural communities. Dr. Adisapurti has published several articles in leading journals, which have garnered over 200 academic citations, and won several notable awards, including New Zealand ASEAN Scholarship and the Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship. She is a frequent reviewer for several prestigious journals including The International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Previously, she was a member of the Indonesian Medical Association, a medical manager at a multinational pharmaceutical company, and an English-Indonesian translator.

Gianisa can be contacted at gianisa@dal.ca

Dr. Amofah's research interest is on sustainable African communities, emerging development cooperation, indigenous women entrepreneurship, poverty reduction, disability studies, and women livelihood empowerment. Originally trained in urban planning with special interest in revamping 'dead' urban spaces in African, he obtained his PhD in Sociology at Tallinn University, focusing on emerging development cooperation between recently westernized countries and communities in Africa. His recent research and projects have been on disability rights and social capital, rural business value chain for women empowerment, African cultural and privacy rights, as well as sustainable development in urbanizing African communities. Dr. Amofah's research conceptually and methodologically create awareness in scholarship on wholistic rural and community development towards sustainable livelihood

Seth can be contacted at seth.amofah@dal.ca

Neil Balan holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities, and he has fifteen years of varied university teaching experience at all undergraduate levels. He's generally interested in worldly Marxisms and revolutionary struggles, critical security and military studies, and critiques of state and military violence, paramilitary violence, neoimperialism, and liberal militarism.  He works at different universities in Kjipuktuk, and he's interested in collective teaching and learning by foregrounding interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, and internationalism whether in International Development Studies or beyond. He's also a CUPE 3912 member and interested in collective action inside and outside university spaces." 

Neil can be reached at neil.balan@dal.ca