Meet Prof. Wayne Caldwell Descriptive Transcipt

Summary: A brief description of Prof. Wayne Caldwell's research into rural communities at the University of Guelph and insight into where graduates of the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development work. 

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Text: :60 Second Snapshots
Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Wayne: My research focuses on rural planning and development, 
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particularly the connections between agriculture and 
rural communities and how the changes in agriculture impact rural communities 
themselves.
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I focus on things such as immigration into rural communities.I 
focus on issues such as farmland preservation.
I look at issues such as the natural heritage and how that's dealt with in rural communities, really from a 
planning and economic development perspective.
I think it's critically 
important as it impacts of future rural
communities and our ability and sustainability in rural communities across the country.

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Wayne: I think the most 
exciting aspect of my research work
focuses on the work that I do with communities themselves. 
We have all kinds of different perspectives on the future 
of communities. 
Different people have different aspirations for their 
communities and part of the challenge is
working through with people 
the changes that they envision that will 
happen in their communities in helping
them to move in a positive direction looking to the future.

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Wayne: If I reflect on some of my past graduate students and 
what they're doing within the workplace,they're working across the country in 
every province and every territory.
Working at a community level usually, sometimes working in consultancies, sometimes working with municipal government, 
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sometimes working with provincial governments and NGOs.

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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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