Prof. Allan Borowski of La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) conducted a workshop on research thesis preparation and supervision for Ben-Gurion University social work and nursing graduate students and faculty members on Thursday.  The workshop was sponsored by the Regional Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research (RADAR) Center, Spitzer Dept. of Social Work and the Toby Mower Curriculum for the Prevention and Treatment of Addiction, Recanati Dept. of Nursing.

Prof. Borowski is an internationally recognized scholar and researcher from La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia).  An elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, he has conducted thesis supervision training workshops at universities around the world including those in Israel, the United States, China and elsewhere.

About 25 faculty members and graduate student participants were on hand to improve their research efforts with the Department of Social Work (Regional Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center) and the Department of Nursing (Toby Mower Curriculum for the Prevention and Treatment of Addiction).

“This is a first: bringing these two BGU units together with mutual interests and concerns - the prevention and treatment of addiction,” says RADAR Center director Prof. Richard Isralowitz and the Toby Mower Curriculum head Miri Farkash.