Workshop: Building Respectful Relations, 28 May 2007
Building Respectful Relationships: Conducting Community-Based Research Workshopfor Graduate Students Studying the Social Economy
Graduate students interested in co-operatives, the social economy and community-based research attended a day-long workshop on Community-based Research Methodology. The workshop was held on Monday, May 28 -- the day before the CASC/ICA/ACE coordinated conference Co-operative Innovation: Influencing the Social Economy which was part of Congress 2007 at the Universityof Saskatchewan.
This workshop was hosted by the Northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan Social Economy Regional Node of the Canadian Social Economy Partnerships. The node's Linking, Learning, Leveraging website contains links to all the workshop information below. Clicking on the links below will direct you to the node's website.
Presentation slides: Brett Fairbairn
Workshop Agenda
Monday, May 28th – 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Location: Arts 217
| 8:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 | Welcome, introductions |
| 9:00 | Building Respectful Relations |
| Dr. Brett Fairbairn, Head, Department of History and Centre for the Study of Co-operatives Fellow in Co-operative Thought and Ideas |
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| 10:00 | Refreshment Break |
| 10:15 | Studies In and With Communities: A Primer on Community-Based Research |
| Dr. Michael Gertler, Department of Sociology and Centre for the Study of Co-operatives Fellow in Community and Co-operative Development Dr. Paul Wilkinson, Manager, Station 20 West; Community Partner, Linking, Learning, Leveraging |
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| 11:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 | Matching purpose, participants and methods: Conducting research in Aboriginal communities |
| Lois Gray, Graduate Student, University of Manitoba | |
| 1:45 | Making sense of it all and whose “sense”: innovative data collection methods and forms |
| Dr. Jorge Sousa, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta | |
| Len Usiskin, Manager, Quint Development Corporation; Community Partner, Linking, Learning, Leveraging | |
| 3:00 | Refreshment Break |
| 3:15 | Building a Graduate Student Network |
| Dr. Ian MacPherson, Director, B.C. Institute for Co-operative Studies, Victoria; Co-director, Social Economy National Hub |
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| Janel Smith, Co-ordinator, Social Economy Graduate Student Network | |
| 4:30 | Wrap up |
| 5:00 | Congress Registration, CASC/ACE/ICA Opening Reception |
