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Critical Junctures in Research Practice & Policy November 5, 2010
Faculty of Land & Food SystemsIntegrated Studies in Land and Food Systems
Will ValleyPhD candidateProject CoordinatorThink&EatGreen@School
Yona Sipos PhD candidateProject CoordinatorUBC Based Community Food Assessment Project
Dr. Alejandro RojasAssociate ProfessorPrincipal Investigator Think&EatGreen@School
From Inquiry to Engagement:From Inquiry to Engagement:A Reflection on 10 Years of Community-Based
Learning & Research on Food Security & Sustainability at the University of British
Columbia
• Context
• Culture of fragmentation
• Land, Food and Community series
• Community inquiry & engagement
• What have we learned?
Our pathway
l Fragmentation of knowledge, faculty, community-university relations, learner's persona
l Fragmentation of food persona: disconnect and deskilling
The Land, Food & Community The Land, Food & Community Series Series Structure Structure & Projects& Projects
LFC I: Awarenessà Think&EatGreen@School (Food Security Project in Vancouver)
LFC II: Tools and Methodology àUBC Based Community Food Assessment Project in BC
LFC III: ApplicationàUBC Food System Project
Food System Projects
Community generated research agenda
Externally generated research agenda
Community inquiry
Community engagement
Map of Participatory Research ApproachesMap of Participatory Research Approaches
Community Community EngagedEngaged
ScholarshipScholarship
What have we learned?What have we learned?
• Institutional change can begin in classroom & expand through Community Based Learning
• Space for collaborative inquiry of integrative issues is paramount
• Relationship building takes time, develop through iterative process of Action Research
• Positive outcomes will accumulate
• Model can be used with large class size
UBC Farm in the Winter