Presentation requests

Dr. Kershaw is an enthusiastic public speaker.  He regularly accepts invitations to speak locally, nationally and internationally.

Depending on timing, travel, audience and event objectives, Dr. Kershaw may charge speaking fees in addition to travel costs, including air (direct flights when possible), ground transportation (taxi, or other driver), per diem, hotel with internet, etc.  Please contact paul.kershaw@ubc.ca for further information.

Because Paul gives many presentations throughout the year, he tends to use his time traveling to events to prepare his slide deck for specific audiences.  Generally, this means he will not provide slides until the morning of his presentation.

Paul requires a PowerPoint projector and screen to be provided on-site, but prefers to link his own laptop directly to the projector.  If other arrangements are necessary, please let Dr. Kershaw know one week in advance.

Paul requires a lapel microphone when sound amplification is required.

A headshot and short bio for presentations or advertisements can be found below.

Dr. Paul Kershaw is a farmer morning and night.  By day, he is an academic, public speaker, volunteer and media contributor, presently writing a weekly column for the Vancouver Sun.  Kershaw is one of Canada’s leading thinkers about family policy, showing its important contributions to crime prevention, going green, population health, school achievement, Truth & Reconciliation, gender equality and business profitability. His contributions to public dialogue are innovative, provocative and fervently committed to the evidence, making Kershaw difficult to categorize.  While the Tyee implies Kershaw is part of a right wing conspiracy, public investment skeptics suggest Kershaw is socialist.  CKNW radio jokingly calls him the “Boomer Hater,” while Canadian Family magazine describes him as “the ‘Generation Squeeze’ guru.”  Twice the Canadian Political Science Association has awarded Kershaw national prizes for his policy research and feminist theory. “Armed with a laptop and a raft of statistics,” The Vancouver Province describes Kershaw as “a one-man road show trying to change Canada one talk at a time.”  Change is necessary, he urges, because Canada no longer works for all generations.  At the University of British Columbia, Kershaw is the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) Scholar of Social Care, Citizenship and the Determinants of Health.