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Friday, May 11, 2018
By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications RA This is part two of a three-part series on the ABC’s of CCE Partnerships, where we share some of the most important things to keep in mind when engaging in a CCE Partnership. Here, we’ve identified some strategies for sharing resources in a way that empowers the community... More
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications RA This is part one of a three-part series on the ABC’s of CCE Partnerships, where we share some of the most important things to keep in mind when engaging in a CCE Partnership. Here, we’ve identified some of the main things we’ve found important to consider when taking... More
Friday, May 4, 2018
Rhonda Ferguson is a postdoctoral fellow with Lakehead University and Food Secure Canada. She has been researching the relationship between agricultural trade, food security, and human rights throughout her postgraduate work. Rhonda has joined the CFICE team as part of the Community-Campus Engagement Brokering (Food Sovereignty) working group.... More
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
In CFICE’s “Conversations With” series, we interview community-campus engagement (CCE) practitioners to get their insights on CCE. Interview conducted by Erin Martel, CFICE Communications Research Assistant. This month, we hear from John Marris, Executive Director of the Trent Community Research Centre (TCRC). John brings a wealth of... More
Thursday, April 26, 2018
On Thursday April 26, 2018 CFICE, the Trent Community Research Centre and McMaster University's Office of Community Engagement co-presented Making Connections, Building Relationships: How community and campus-based brokers facilitate community-based research opportunities for students. Moderated by David Tough, the webinar had presenters John... More
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
In CFICE’s “Conversations With” series, we interview community-campus engagement (CCE) practitioners to get their insights on CCE. Interview conducted by Erin Martel, CFICE Communications Research Assistant. This month, we hear from Cathy Malcolm Edwards, a research facilitator at Carleton University who focuses on social innovation. Having... More
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
by Ethan Walker, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Back in February, you may have seen the announcement that Food Secure Canada (FSC) won a government contract to coordinate a Northern Food Systems Study funded by the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). Typically, government contracts are given to academic... More
Friday, January 5, 2018
This is a short-term contract to make a lasting impression with local environmental non-profit organizations, by being the first to design a framework to standardize data on university and college engagement opportunities and pilot the data collection/dissemination with community groups here in Ottawa. You will be co-creating a brokering tool to... More
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Our partners in the Community-Campus Engagement Brokering (Food Sovereignty) working group have been busy this year advocating for a National Food Policy in Canada. They have also been busily writing up the lessons learned from this work in a new journal article titled A people-centred approach to food policy making: Lessons from Canada’s... More
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
On Tuesday, December 5, 2017 CFICE presented Students in the Community: Models of Student Community Engagement. Moderated by Nadine Changfoot, the webinar had presenters, Robert (Bobby) Hackett, Eileen O'Connor, and Stephen Hill discussing several different models for integrating student training and engagement throughout their university... More
Thursday, October 12, 2017
by Amanda Wilson, Community Co-Lead, CCE Brokering (Food Sovereignty) Working Group One of the first projects I became involved in when I joined CFICE was developing a peer review process for a series of discussion papers mapping the food policy landscape in Canada. It was part of a research collaboration between Food Secure Canada... More
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
It is with great pleasure that we share the news that our Community-Campus Engagement Brokering (Ottawa) Working Group Academic Co-lead, Eileen O'Connor, has been appointed as the new Chairholder in University Teaching at University of Ottawa. The official press release announcement follows (reposted from University of Ottawa): New Chairholder... More
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