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WEBINAR: Bringing the University to Rural Ontario: Brokering Campus & Community Engagement in Haliburton
August 29, 2018 at 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
| Location: | Online - Register for more information! |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | Munzaleen Sajjad |
| Contact Email: | sajjadm@brandonu.ca |
This webinar will explore the 30-year history of a relationship between Trent University and the rural community of Haliburton, Ontario in community development and policy change. An overview of the role of U-Links Community-Based Research Centre, a community-based organization that brokers the relationship between the community and the university will be provided (Blake) along with the perspective of a faculty member (Hill) whose students have been engaged for many years in the community and masters student (Amon) who has participated in numerous community-based research projects and is now researching the impact of this work on the community.
Presenters
Jim Blake is the consultant for the Haliburton County Development Corporation, Curator of the Haliburton Sculpture Forest and a part-time faculty member at the Fleming College. Jim is the president and co-founder of the Haliburton County Community-Co-operative, co-chair and co-founder of the U-Links Centre for Community-Based Research and has collaborated with Trent University for over 25 years to facilitate community-based research in Haliburton County.
Emily Amon is completing her Masters of Arts in Sustainability Studies at Trent University, and has a background in community-based research and environmental sciences and studies. Her current work focuses on the contributions of community based research to local sustainable development in Haliburton Ontario, by evaluating U-Links Centre for Community Based Research. Emily’s work is partially funded by SSHRC.
Stephen Hill is an Associate Professor in the School of the Environment at Trent University and co-lead, with Jim Blake, of the Student Pathways working group in the CFICE project (Communities First: Impacts of Community Engagement), a SSHRC funded research project that studies how community and campus partners work together to positively impact communities (https://carleton.ca/communityfirst/).