AALL Connect Inspire Share #2 – Trauma-Informed Education: A Gazan Perspective – 21 May 2025

Our second Connect Inspire Share session for 2025 is a co-presentation from an Australia-based learning advisor, Dr Martin McMorrow, and a Palestinian academic, Dr Ahmed Junina, based in Gaza. Martin will introduce Trauma-Informed Education and its key principles: Safety, Trustworthiness, Choice, Collaboration, and Empowerment. Ahmed will then give examples of how his teaching over the last two years has aligned with these principles. There will be opportunities for participants to ask questions both during the session and afterwards.

Martin is the learning co-ordinator within Student Success at The University of Notre Dame, Australia. He has previously worked in learning support, ESOL teaching and teacher education in New Zealand, the UK, Brazil, Europe, and Kiribati.
Ahmed is Head of English at Al-Aqsa University, Gaza. He completed his PhD at AUT in Auckland and is also Cambridge CELTA and DELTA qualified. Martin is one of the contributors to a British Council-funded project which Ahmed is leading, in which 60 Palestinian students will create videos in English to tell their stories.

We very much look forward to seeing you at the session.

AALL members have received a Zoom link for this session, however if you have not received the link and would like to join the session, please email Steve Campitelli from the AALL PD Committee: cas@unimelb.edu.au