Transferring Rural Research: From Letterfrack to Rural Ontario

Transferring Rural Research: From Letterfrack to Rural Ontario
Researchers, policymakers and practitioners recently gathered in Letterfrack, Ireland for the 2024 North Atlantic Forum. The Forum focused on sustainable livelihoods and sought to engage new ideas in rural development, policy practice, and the social economy. To facilitate knowledge mobilization a series of rural research summaries were created by graduate students on innovative approaches to sustainable livelihoods. The summaries provides a snapshot of r

Barrett’s PhD Available Online

Barrett’s PhD Available Online
  Josh Barrett's PhD dissertation titled A New Localism for Newfoundland and Labrador? An Exploratory Study of Rural Local Government Entrepreneurialism is now available in the University of Guelph's Atrium! The abstract to Josh's PhD dissertation is listed below: The roles and responsibilities of local governments are changing. Historically, the expectation of service delivery was focused on areas such as garbage collection, street paving,