CBR Canada News

Message from Rhonda Kropp Associate Vice-President, Learning Health Systems I am pleased to announce the release of CIHR's Research Excellence Framework, a major step in advancing our strategic plan commitment to research excellence in all its diversity. This Framework positions CIHR on a clear path towards achieving our vision where Canadian health research is recognized as inclusive, collaborative, transparent, culturally safe, and focused on real-world impact. We are lo

Date & Time Aug 22, 2024 01:00 PM in America/Toronto Description Explore opportunities to strengthen your organization’s research capacity, develop a research project, or share research findings by applying to the National Housing Strategy Research and Planning Fund! The NHS Research and Planning Fund provides support to not-for-profit organizations, registered charities, Indigenous governments, and Indigenous organizations to plan, undertake, and share research on affordabl

Funding for not-for-profit organizations, registered charities, and Indigenous partners. Funds help to plan, undertake and share research related to affordable housing in Canada. The Research and Planning Fund advances evidence-based research used to understand and address housing challenges in Canada. It focuses on vulnerable groups in the housing system. The fund also promotes collaboration and engagement in housing research. Additionally, it supports developing research sk

The Living Knowledge Conference is the European counterpart to CBRCanada's C2UExpo conference. CBRCanada is thrilled to again be facilitating sessions at the 10th Living Knowledge Conference: Building and Sustaining Next Generation Engagement taking place in Girona, Spain this June 25-28th. Registration for the conference is open until June 12th. CBRCanada's LK 2024 sessions are: Tuesday, June 25th, 3-5pm Workshop: Skills Training: “Authentic or tokenistic Community-Universi

May 21, 2024 The Community-Based Research Excellence Awards is an annual CBRCanada program that nationally recognizes exceptional people and partnerships that embody the what it means to do community-based research well. Launched in 2021, this is our fourth year of the Awards program and we couldn't be more impressed by the caliber of nominees in both categories - Excellence in Community-Campus Researcher Partnership and Emerging Community-Based Researcher. Thank you to all 4

Community-Based Research Canada (CBRCanada) invites qualified candidates to join the Board of Directors. For over 10 years, the CBRCanada Board has provided leadership, governance, and oversight to the organization, guiding it from its beginnings as a network of community-based researchers to its current position as a national champion and facilitator of community-based research excellence. Made up exclusively of volunteers, the Board supports CBRCanada in its mission to adv

As always, there is so much to look forward to in the CBRCanada network as we move toward spring. First and foremost, we are so pleased that C2UExpo, in person, is back! Please join us at Lakehead University, in beautiful Thunder Bay Ontario, June 5th to 8th, for C2UExpo 2023, Connected Communities. Collective Change . Where during COVID we hosted two online Mini C2UExpos, with a focus on celebrating excellence in community engaged research, the in-person gathering at Lakeh

It’s almost as if you’re at a party, but you don’t know anyone. For a while, it’s fine to float around the room, tuning into conversations here and there. But after some time, you notice a feeling of loneliness. Of, like, invisibility. Of ‘I definitely don’t belong here’. It is disheartening enough that, when reflecting on her early university experience, my sister repeatedly returned to these sentiments of paralyzing estrangement from her broader campus community. It is even

Wilfrid Laurier University researchers are deeply engaged in their communities. As part of Laurier’s strategy to foster enriching partnerships, the university is strengthening its partnership with Community-Based Research (CBR) Canada , a national champion and facilitator of community-based research. CBR Canada employees have moved their operations to Laurier’s Waterloo campus. The university is providing the organization with office space, information and communication tech

Community-Based Research Canada presents “Moving the Dial”: our Winter & Spring 2023 E-Learning series. This 6-month series running from January to June 2023 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 soc

C2UExpo is Canada’s leading conference on community-based research (CBR) and community-campus engagement. CBRCanada is thrilled to have Lakehead University in Thunder Bay as the host of the 8th in-person C2UExpo in June 2023. C2UExpo 2023's theme is Connected Communities. Collective Change. Come together with community champions, community-based researchers, and community engagement professionals from across Turtle Island and beyond to inspire new ways of sharing knowledge an

Your ideas and feedback are needed to shape Community-Based Research Canada's programs and future directions. Take a few minutes to fill out the survey below by October 26th. The results of this survey will be shared during our AGM and in the next e-Newsletter. Thank you for your input! #MemberNews

Your ideas and feedback are needed to shape Community-Based Research Canada's programs and future directions. Take a few minutes to fill out the survey by October 21st. The results of this survey will be shared during our AGM and in the next e-Newsletter. #CBRCanadaNews

Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Ontario June 5-8, 2023 October 6, 2022 – Thunder Bay, Ont. Lakehead University will host the in-person International 2023 C2UExpo (Community-Campus-Exposition) in Thunder Bay from June 5 to 8, 2023, bringing people from across Turtle Island and beyond. Lakehead’s compelling proposal was chosen through a selection and review process by Community-Based Research Canada’s (CBRCanada) Board of Directors. Lakehead University is ideally suited to hos

Community-based research has great potential to contribute toward transformative societal impacts that benefit and uplift marginalized communities across Canada and the world. This important work, however, often goes under recognized. CBRCanada is seeking panelists for an upcoming panel discussion on the topic of "Community-based research at the cross-roads: Equity, social justice, and change.” To mark the two-year anniversary of the pandemic, CBRCanada invites application

Community-Based Research Canada (CBRCanada) invites qualified candidates to join the Board of Directors. For over 10 years, the CBRCanada Board has provided leadership, governance, and oversight to the organization, guiding it from its beginnings as a network of community-based researchers to its current position as a national champion and facilitator of community-based research excellence. Made up exclusively of volunteers, the Board supports CBRCanada in its mission to adv

Community-based research has great potential to contribute toward transformative societal impacts that benefit and uplift marginalized communities across Canada and the world. This important work, however, often goes under recognized. CBRCanada recognizes excellence in community-based research and is thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for the Award for Excellence in Community-Campus Research Partnership and Award for Emerging Community-Based Researcher. Award

CBRCanada is excited to announce its very own certificate course. See details in the flyer and indicate your interest by filling out the course form. #CBRCanadaNews

As the calendar turned to 2022, like all of you, we hoped that COVID-19 would be in the rear-view mirror along with 2021. But the Omicron variant is giving the Pandemic one last major spike – hopefully - before we reach the endemic stage. Despite the ongoing pandemic CBRCanada has continued to keep its head down and develop and offer timely and relevant services and programs to our growing membership. Speaking of our members, we are now 46 organizations strong and we would li

CBRCanada is delivering an 8-part virtual learning series titled “Community-Based Research and COVID-19: Addressing Widening Inequities and Amplifying Community- Based Visions for Change”. The summary below highlights themes from September and October's live online discussions. A PDF version is available here #CBRCanadaNews