{"id":505,"date":"2009-10-26T15:51:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T19:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/?page_id=505"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:03:34","slug":"elizabeth-whitmore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/faculty-and-staff\/elizabeth-whitmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Whitmore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Elizabeth Whitmore\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Elizabeth (Bessa) Whitmore, Professor Emerita at Carleton University School of Social Work, Ottawa, Canada, has been teaching the Capstone seminar (Development Studies specialization) since 2004. The course involves a partnership with World University Service of Canada (WUSC) in which students act as \u2018consultants.\u2019 The topics, proposed by WUSC are based on their needs and interests in any given year, and have varied from work on MDGs, how to use information technologies more effectively, to developing more effective monitoring and evaluation approaches for selected programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She brings broad experience in international development work, including teaching, community work and\/or research in Guyana, Nicaragua, Chile, Ethiopia and Botswana. Her particular interest is in participatory approaches to research and evaluation. She has written widely on these topics, including <em>Seeds of fire: International development in an age of globalism<\/em> (2000), an edited volume <em>Understanding and practicing participatory evaluation <\/em>(<em>1998), <\/em>in addition to<em> <\/em>book chapters and journal articles. She is currently writing a book on the meaning of success in social justice activism work, based on a research project in collaboration with activist groups and organizations across Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth (Bessa) Whitmore, Professor Emerita at Carleton University School of Social Work, Ottawa, Canada, has been teaching the Capstone seminar (Development Studies specialization) since 2004. The course involves a partnership with World University Service of Canada (WUSC) in which students act as \u2018consultants.\u2019 The topics, proposed by WUSC are based on their needs and interests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-505","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions\/895"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}