Ricardo Diego Suárez Rojas
Visiting Lecturer
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Ricardo Diego Suárez Rojas, PhD, MSW, MA, is a bioethicist and social worker specializing in trauma, imagination, stress, and community development. He has over 15 years of experience integrating the humanities, the arts, and social and biomedical sciences in higher education settings and community settings in Mexico and the USA.
He is the founder of Laboratorio en Movimiento, an organization that promotes science, art, and community development in Chiapas. His participatory action project “Sinapsis” (2022-present) has provided scholarships to more than 100 people (multigenerational and multicultural cohorts) to study creative writing, philosophy, and the neuroscience of imagination, aiming to foster community integration.
As a researcher and project manager, he has collaborated with the BIP Lab at the University of Chicago, the International House (UChicago), the Cell to Society Lab (Boston College, neuro and social work), and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
2023-2024 “Characterizing Experiences of Workplace Violence among Hospital Patient Care Employees.” Pilot research grant funded by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Education and Research Center. Funder: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), T42OH008416). Total costs: $15,000.
2020-2021 Field Research Scholar Position for innovative research (social work field education, neuroscience, and critical pedagogy) as part of the Transforming the Field Education Landscape Project at The University of Calgary. $500.
2019 City Hall Youth Award granted by the Mayor of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, due to Laboratorio en Movimiento’s research quality and contributions to the city. $500.
2019 First place in the “National Short Story Competition Joaquín Porrúa: Literary Promises,” for the short story “Ahuízotl.”
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Education
PhD, Boston College
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Contact
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Address
Renaissance Park 202B
