Campaign Centre
Western United Way Campaign 2024
Western University and United Way Elgin Middlesex - together, let's build our community and make lasting change in people's lives. United.
Addressing complex community challenges, together
The United Way Elgin Middlesex (UWEM) plays an integral role in addressing some of the most complex social challenges. And to do it well requires complex strategies: advocacy work, influencing public policy, and collaboration with community partners.
Western’s United Way Campaign helps UWEM build stronger communities with more resilient and healthier people.
In a community where everyone matters, UWEM supports personal well-being and strengthens communities by investing in mental health supports and services, neighbourhood and community development, and programs that address gender-based violence and ensure wellbeing and resilience for all.
Western’s strategic plan, Towards Western at 150, reminds all of us that we are an integral part of the community, and we must take the responsibility that brings seriously. Western students, faculty, and staff contribute to the development and well-being of our city and region and benefit from the many opportunities to work collaboratively with the communities to which we are inextricably linked.
The work of Western researchers is an excellent example. Scholars from a wide variety of faculties and disciplines are working to create meaningful impact by addressing issues such as homelessness, mental health, addictions, food insecurity, and domestic violence.
Meet a few Western researchers who are tackling these wicked challenges here in London, in the region, and around the world.
Meet the Researchers
Abe Oudshoorn
Abe Oudshoorn is an associate professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing. His research informs health and social systems and builds health equity to support housing stability for vulnerable populations.
Dr. Chandlee Dickey
Chandlee Dickey has been the Chair/Chief of the Department of Psychiatry since 2018. Dr. Dickey's research interest involves improving the standard of care for methamphetamine users.
Nadine Wathen
Professor Wathen's research examines the health and social service sector response to gender-based violence, interventions to reduce health inequities, and the science of knowledge mobilization.
Riley Hinson
Professor Wathen's research examines the health and social service sector response to gender-based violence, interventions to reduce health inequities, and the science of knowledge mobilization.
Jason Gilliland
Professor Wathen's research examines the health and social service sector response to gender-based violence, interventions to reduce health inequities, and the science of knowledge mobilization.
Nadine Wathen
Professor Wathen's research examines the health and social service sector response to gender-based violence, interventions to reduce health inequities, and the science of knowledge mobilization.
