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Thursday, October 20, 2016
by Maeve Lydon, CFICE Aligning Institutions for Community Impact Community Co-Lead Our Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) policy and action work over the next three years (2016-2019) will focus on strengthening both Canadian communities and the national community-campus engagement (CCE) movement in Canada. We continue to... More
Sunday, September 13, 2015
CFICE is very pleased to share this survey report on Global Trends in Training Community-Based Research in Higher Education Institutions and Civil Society Organizations! This is the first global survey that we know of on training in Community-Based Research (CBR). The study was conducted by the UNESCO Chair in CBR and Social Responsibility in... More
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Knowledge mobilization helps us do research that is useful and used. But the field itself is fraught with a dizzying array of terminology and concepts, leaving researchers and their community partners unsure about what knowledge mobilization means in their situation. As a result, developing a knowledge mobilization strategy takes thoughtful... More
Monday, May 25, 2015
1. SPRC & McMaster Colleagues Seeking Community Partners for Input to Community-Based Research Toolkit Colleagues at McMaster and SPRC are putting together a list of 15-20 invitees to attend a workshop which willlead to the development of a community based research toolkit. If you have any names of people across various sectors in the... More
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Taken from the Center for Community Based Research website: The Centre for Community Based Research together with Community- Based Research Canada organized a National Summit on Collaborative Community-Campus Research. This event was held on November 3 and 4, 2014 in Waterloo, Ontario and brought together over 60 leaders of community-based... More
Thursday, December 11, 2014
The journal of Scholarly and Research Communication has released a special issue titled: Community-based participatory research. This issue covers a number of topics such as strategies for sustaining complex partnerships, engaged scholarship regarding the Queer Liberation Theory Project, and Knowledge Co-Creation and Assistive Technology. You can... More
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The following report outlines options and approaches for the sustainable development of the Oblate lands in Old Ottawa East. The development of the Oblate lands, which will be able to accommodate 3,000 new residents, presents a rare opportunity to implement “deep” sustainability performance and quality of life in the heart of Ottawa. The... More
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Professors, we need you! A divide is growing between university professors and the rest of the world. On one hand, anti-intellectualism is becoming mainstream in that public figures and policy make it increasingly difficult for research to be accepted by the masses. On the other hand, university professors alienate themselves by failing to... More
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The Community Academic Collaborative is a network of academics and food actors (non-profits, community organizers, farmers and more) who are all working and thinking together about how to improve the collaborative research we do together, so that it serves the interests of our communities and contributes to advancing the food systems we want.... More
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