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Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria

In from the cold?

Community-Based Research and Universities at the Brink of a New

Era

Budd Hall, Director

Knowledge, learning and action What is the relationship of knowledge to the

search for social justice and social change? Whose knowledge is privileged? How?, Why? What role do/can Universities play in a

movement for the democratization of knowledge production and utilization?

How is knowledge created in community, movement and civil society settings

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Organization of my remarks Some Canadian antecedents Origins of the participatory research

movement in Canada Canadian universities and CBR Community Based Research Canada Global Alliance for Community-Engaged

Research

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Frontier College - 1899 Alfred Fitzpatrick - Justice for the

campmen Labourer-Teachers Reading camp association

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Women’s Institutes- 1909 Adelaide Hoodless and Laura Rose,

Ontario Agricultural College “…for months on end, I had no woman

to talk to, and my husband had no time to even listen”

Mrs. Gordon Grant, “Today the womenhood of not only B.C. but of all the world is being awakened”, 1913

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Antigonish Movement-1930-40s St. Francis Xavier University Fr. Jimmy Tompkins-Knowledge for the

People Fr. Moses Coady Coady International Institute

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Saskatchewan-1944 Election of Tommy Douglas and the

CCF Establishment of the Division of Adult

Education Watson Tomkins, David Smith and

Murray Thomson

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The National Film Board John Grierson-1939 National Film

Board Act “Democracy needs its own form of

wildfire written across the sky” Grierson

Industrial Film Circuits - French and English

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Participatory Research Project Working out of OISE/UT Roots in Tanzania - early 1970s First World Assembly of Adult Education-

1976 dian marino, Ted Jackson, Deborah Barndt,

Greg Conchelos, Al Vigoda, Linda Harasim Big Trout Lake, Women Workers, Urban

Immigrants

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Participatory Research A three pronged activity that combines

social investigation, learning and action Conceived in Tanzania, influenced by

Nyerere, Freire, Horton and Swantz Gain support and visibility in

community-based groups and international NGOs

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International Participatory Research Network -1977 To share ideas as equals based on our

own engagement in local political action and struggles

Nodes in Tanzania, India,Chile, Netherlands, USA, Canada, Caribbean

Convergence - Our journal of choice

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International PR Network Founded Centro El Canelo de Nos in Chile- Society for Participatory Research in Asia-

1981 Many publications - influence in health

promotion, sociology, dis/ability studies, social work, adult education, Aboriginal studies, environmental studies

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Movement led research Labour movement – occupational health

and safety Gay Rights – HIV/AIDS taking control of

research for survival Environmental movements – Research

for advocacy Anti-racism movements – for rights,

education and justice

Movement led research Aboriginal self-determination Women’s movements Solidarity and global social justice

movements Peace movements Ex-psychiatric patients movements

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Movement led research Disability movements Community economic development

movements Anti-poverty movement World Social Forum

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Impact on the Univesities Service aux collectivities - Quebec,

1970s Journal de Recherches et Actions

Communautaires (REAC) - 1980s Faculty of Environmental Studies, York

University OISE - Transformative Learning Centre The journal Convergence

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Research Councils/Foundations Community University Research

Alliances – SSHRC Canadian Institutes for Health

Research-CBR HIV/AIDS Committee, Guidelines for Aboriginal Research

McConnell Family Foundation - support for CEDTAP, Service Learning, Trent University, St. F. Xavier

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University Institutionalisation From individuals to projects From projects to centres From centres to university-wide

structures Creation of national and international

spaces

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A diversity of structures today

Service aux collectivités-UQAM Centre for Community-based Research-

Kitchener Trent Centre for Community Education Centre for Community Innovation, Carleton

University Community Research Centre-Trois Rivieres

More examples Harris Centre – Memorial University of

Newfoundland Research Impact and Knowledge Mobilization

project – York University and University of Victoria

Institute for Community-Based Research, Vancouver Island University

Community-University Institute for Social Research, U of Saskatchewan

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More examples Centre for Community Research, Learning

and Action, Wilfred Laurier University Office of Community-Based Research,

University of Victoria Social Innovation Group, University of

Waterloo Institute of CBR, Vancouver Island University

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Challenges: Community CBR was born in community, remains

grounded through community and grows in community

Building capacity in communities Building community CBR institutions Working with independent CB research

groups: CCPA, Pembina Institute, Caledon Institute

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Further challenges:Community Learning about new forms intellectual

property rights Learning about MOUs and Partnership

Agreements Getting paid for our role as researchers Building capacity in the community

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Challenges re strengthening CBR in the Universities

Creating space for “community scholars in residence”?

Making links with community service learning, continuing education, coop, the arts within our universities

Support for faculty and students already doing CBR

Challenges re Universities Recognition for excellence in CBR for

tenure and promotion Increased teaching of CBR More opportunities for student

engagement in CBR Creating structures to support CBR

across the entire university

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Policy changes at Research Councils Increased support for domestic and

international CBR collaborations Increased pools of multi-research

council funding ie pools of joint NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC funding

Increased funding to community/civil society groups

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Office of Community-Based Research Co-Chaired by VP Research and CEO

of United Way, Victoria Base-budgeted by the University of

Victoria An open door to the community Active in Canadian and international

networks

OCBR activities Knowledge Mobilization Help Desk Ceneuel: CBR in Aboriginal

Communities Series Engaging Communities: International

Perspective Series Building CBR skills in Community Focus on Homelessness and Housing

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OCBR Activities Green Community Mapping CBR Institutes – May, 2009 Vancouver Island Community Research

Alliance CBR Courses Food Security and Sustainability

network

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Community-Based Research Canada: An invitation Built on CUEXPO contacts Inclusive value added to existing

networks in HIV/AIDS, Aboriginal, Social Economy, Homeslessness, etc

Carleton, UQAM and Uvic initial leadership – Katherine Graham, Chair

From Recession to Renewal-May 2009

Global Alliance for Community-Engaged Research: An invitation

Born at CUEXP0-2008

Initial leadership-Canada, India, Germany-Netherlands

Next meeting- Belfast, Ireland August 28, 2009

Focus: a global policy brief for the World Conference on Higher Education

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Why? Because the world is not OK Because we want to end poverty, homeless,

inequity and injustice and more Because communities, knowledge,

universities can contribute to a stronger and more responsive politics

Because our educational institutions need to be transformed

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And Because the seeds of the

transformation of our communities, our universities, our lives, and our world can be found in our practices, our activism and our dreams…within this room…with each of you…and all of us…today