Connecting Research to Rural Ontario

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Rural economic development practitioners are at the front line of facilitating, prosperous, rural communities, places, and environments across Ontario. This initiative created a series of plain language summaries on innovative approaches to building and maintaining sustainable rural livelihoods in a post-pandemic environment. This initiative mobilizes knowledge shared at the 2024 North Atlantic Forum to rural stakeholders in Ontario, ensuring this critical information reaches rural communities and businesses. The summaries focus on what is transferable to rural Ontario to advance rural development and rural businesses. This initiative disseminated new knowledge outputs to key rural Ontario stakeholders, such as local governments, economic development actors, nonprofit organizations, and businesses.

A team of graduate students from the University of Guelph, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the University of Prince Edward Island prepared seven, one-page research summaries. Graduate students included: Lucas Berek (University of Guelph), Eliza MacLauchlan (University of Prince Edward Island), Christine Miller (University of Prince Edward Island), Damilola Oyewale (University of Guelph), Natasha Pennell (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Avery Velez (Memorial University of Newfoundland).

Research Team

  • Laurie Brinklow (University of Prince Edward Island)
  • Sheila Downer (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
  • Ryan Gibson (University of Guelph)
  • Lucas Berek (University of Guelph)

Resources

Funding Acknowledgement

This research is funded by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, a collaboration between the Government of Ontario and the University of Guelph. The project is grateful for the support of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation and the Rural Ontario Institute.