CBRCanada Webinar: Moving the Dial On: Equity-Informed Approaches to the Climate Emergency
Thu, Apr 27
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Join CBRCanada in this e-learning event in the "Moving The Dial" series highlighting community-based research making positive social change.


Time & Location
Apr 27, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webinar
About the Event
Community-Based Research Canada presents “Moving the Dial”: our 2023 E-Learning series. This series will highlight action-oriented community-based research that is ‘moving the dial’ on today’s pressing societal challenges. An important hallmark of community-based research, taking an action-orientated and impactful approach, means research partnerships mobilizing knowledge and mobilizing communities towards positive societal change. The research projects highlighted within this series demonstrate impact of community-based research. We will hear about research partnerships that facilitated actions improving societal conditions, including changes in policies, systems, organizations, and communities where everyone is supported and belongs.
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