Will C. van den Hoonaard
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Biography
Born in the Netherlands in 1942, [Will van den Hoonaard] experienced the Dutch Hunger Winter and lived as a child in a cave in France… He is a founding member of Canada's Inter-Agency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics and the first Chair of its Social Sciences and Humanities Research Ethics Special Working Committee, the group that authored Giving Voice to the Spectrum (2004) and its subsequent documents with the aim of developing proposals for changing Canada's research-ethics regime. He has served on numerous national academic bodies, including standing-grant committees of Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme. He is former Chair of the Historical Cartography Section of the Canadian Cartographic Association and served as book-review editor of a number of scholarly journals. A longstanding field researcher, he has conducted research in Iceland, among the Dutch of New Brunswick, and [within] the world of mapmakers. He has lectured throughout Scandinavia, Iceland, Slovenia, Brazil, Argentina, China, the United States, and Australia.
A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he holds other awards, including the University of New Brunswick Merit Award, the "Global Citizen" Award on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, and the University of New Brunswick President's Medal (2007).
Professor van den Hoonaard was born in The Hague and received a PhD from the University of Manchester in 1977. In the late 1970s he represented the Bahá'í International Community, an international non-governmental organization at the United Nations in New York.
How has New Brunswick influenced your work?
New Brunswick has given me the opportunity to write on a wide variety of topics: ethics in research, Iceland, the equality of women and men, cartography, the Moon, qualitative research, the Baha'i Community of Canada, etc.
What do you consider to be the highlight of your career so far?
Having only a Grade 3 education, I was fortunate to have been able to author at least 15 books.
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