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Voicing Change: Co-Creating Knowledge and Capacity for Sustainable Food Systems Voicing Change: Co-Creating Knowledge and Capacity for...

The Professional Diploma in Participatory Health Research is a 1-year part-time program offered by the University of Limerick in Ireland. It is intended for existing research or clinical professionals seeking additional qualification to employ participatory processes in their research. Starting September 2024. Learn more> #MemberNews

In today’s dynamic, complex, and ever-evolving global landscape, universities often find themselves on the front lines of social tension, economic and environmental uncertainty, and political change. These challenges transcend geographical boundaries, impacting universities worldwide irrespective of their size, traditions, cultures, or operational styles. Against this backdrop, this issue of IAU Horizons wishes to investigate the pivotal role of values, exploring both the way

Author: Shelly Lepp, Chief Executive Officer of the Writers Collective of Canada, shares insights gained through the organization’s journey with evaluation. In 2013, a group of unhoused men and women gathered in Writers Collective of Canada’s (WCC) first writing workshop at Toronto’s toughest drop-in shelter. “I bet you have stories to tell,” WCC founder, Susan Turk Mozer prompted. “Nobody has stories like we do!” they replied. The group wrote together—first tentatively t

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the Moving Upstream: Structural Determinants of Health - Catalyst Grants. This funding opportunity will be led by CIHR - Institute of Population and Public Health, in partnership with the Institute of Aging, the Institute of Infection and Immunity, the Institute of Cancer Research, the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, the Institute of Gender and Health, the Institu

The CIHR Catalyst Grant: Community Based Research in Climate Change Priority Areas supports the partnered work of communities and researchers in knowledge development and capacity-building initiatives of relevance to communities working to combat the differential health impacts of climate change. Registration deadline: August 14, 2024 Application deadline: September 12, 2024. Learn more> #MemberNews

PAN is piloting its' Organizational Stigma Assessment Cycle Project with two community-based organizations as an evaluation and capacity-building program to learn where stigma and discrimination may inadvertently occur in their services. Learn more> #MemberNews

The Government of Canada's Budget 2024 - Fairness for Every Generation proposes a historic level of investment in research and innovation, including $1.8 billion in core research grant funding over five years starting in 2024-25 and an additional $748. million per year ongoing. Learn more> #MemberNews

The Banting Posdoctoral Fellowships is a Tri-Agency program that provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, nationally and internationally of $70,000 per year for two-years. Application Deadline: September 17, 2024. Learn more> #MemberNews

This international joint initiative represents a collaboration among research funders from Canada, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the United States. The Arctic region has seen and continues to see rapid and drastic changes, mostly due to climate change, which has a bigger impact in the Arctic than in the rest of the world. Declining sea ice has also opened possibilities of new transport routes, new opportunities for resource extra

Rankin, J., Boulton, T., Fang, X. Y., & Denis, A. (2024). Co-Developing a Radical Mental Health Doula Model of Support: Reflections on...

The Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health is hosting a new podcast, called  “ Indigenous Planetary Health ”. ...

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

Rampersaud, M., & Mussell, L. (2021). “Half the time I felt like nobody loved me”: The Costs of ‘Aging Out’ of State Guardianship in...

Article written by Emily Springer, for Michigan State University’s The Engaged Scholar eNewsletter In 2018, Aaron Stark stood on stage in Boulder, Colorado, and began his Ted Talk by uttering the words, “I was almost a school shooter.” Stark, a high school student in 1996, admitted through tear-streaked eyes and a quivering voice that in a moment of pain and anger, he almost committed a terrible atrocity. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a report

The South Asian and Tamil Women's Collective (SATWC) is leading the first community-based research project on the career and employment needs of young South Asian and Tamil women, and gender diverse communities across the GTA. The SAWTC research team is inviting participants for the study that meet the following requirements: Be within the age range of 18-30 years old Be a Canadian citizen or have permanent resident status Identify as South Asian and/or Tamil Self-identify a

The Youth & Innovation Project at University of Waterloo is hiring for two positions: 1) a Research and Administrative Assistant and a 2) Communications Assistant. Both roles are full-time for 9 months starting June 3rd 2024. Deadline to Apply: Monday April 29th. Learn more> #MemberNews

Supported by Durham College’s Social Impact Hub, the Building Bridges Together project team, including the research steering committee, people with lived experience of poverty and community service providers, co-created three social innovations that breakdown access barriers to financial literacy and services for people experiencing low income. Financial Help Hub (FHH) innovation is rooted in the research data that pointed to a lack of inclusive access to already existing f

MacEwan University is set to host the Community-College-University Exposition (C2UExpo), Canada’s leading community-based research conference, from May 12 to 15, 2025. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners from across sectors to showcase how campus-community partnerships are addressing local and global challenges. This also marks the first time the conference will be held in Alberta. “C2UExpo’s 2025 theme, ‘Partners in Place,’ aligns with MacEwan’s dedi

The March 2024 Community of Practice explored the topic of community-based research, with guest speaker Jess Klassen, the Manitoba...