Dr. Shemer is a faculty member at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Shemer teaching and research areas are related to collaborative and participation processes, community practice,  cultural competence practice , intentional communities, rural communities (such as Kibbutz) and poverty. Dr. Shemer is a community social worker and her fields of specialty include: Enhance processes of participation in organizations; Development processes in organizations and communities with special emphasize on the importance of knowledge-from-experience; Methodology of Learning From Successes; and Participatory action research (PAR).

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