During the 2019 Rural Symposium, five graduates supervised by Dr. Ryan Gibson, presented their research focused on evidence-based policy, rural policy interventions, rural innovation, opioid crisis, trail development, and rural infrastructure. Copies of the presentations and posters can be found below:
- Making a Difference: Provincial Policy Reflections on Knowledge Mobilization (Ashleigh Weeden)
- Creating Effective Rural Policies: Rural Lenses and their Effectiveness (Louis Helps)
- Rural 2.0: Investigating Place-Based Rural Innovation Systems & their Implications for Public Policy and Community Development Practice (Ashleigh Weeden)
- The Opioid Epidemic and Rural First Nations Communities (Shannon Labelle)
- Exchanging Locally Informed Recreational Trail Development Practices to Build a Better Trans Canada Trail (Timothy Hunting)
- Building the Future: Rural Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development (Ashleigh Weeden)
The Rural Symposium is opportunity for graduate students to share their research with researchers, policy analysts and program staff with the OMAFRA, and rural organizations. Further information about the 2019 Rural Symposium, including copies of presentations and posters, can be found at http://ruraldev.ca/2019-rural-symposium/. Highlights from the Rural Symposium can also be found on social media (#ruralsym19).
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