Congratulations to the following School of Environmental Design and Rural Development undergraduate and graduate students who received the following awards at the Ontario Agriculture College fall awards celebration banquet which were held on November 18 and December 2, 2014:
The MSc in Capacity Development & Extension at the University of Guelph is aimed at students interested in acquiring the theoretical foundation and applied skills for the interdisciplinary field of agricultural knowledge management, rural and environmental communication, adult learning and applied leadership and organizational change studies.
The Glocal Classroom project held its third conference this weekend entitled “Voice & Matter – Glocal Conference on Communication for Development”. The conference took place at Roskilde University and Malmö University.
Tenacity and courage... two words that Dr. Helen Hambly Odame of (SEDRD-CDE) uses to describe Nikki Whaites (Alumnus 2005). Her work with organizations such as Journalists for Human Rights and War Child Canada demonstrate how graduates of SEDRD's Capacity Development and Extension program have become leading facilitators of communication for development and social justice in Canada and around the world. Please read the story about Nikki in the at Guelph.
The Editorial article by Professor Oscar Hemer is a reflection of his experience at the May 22-23, 2014 Guelph Seminar of the Glocal Classroom and our experience after this event at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presentation in Fergus, Ontario on May 25th.
EXTRACT from Oscar Hemer's Editorial "Canadian Divides":
Networking for social and environmental change globally is the motivation for the Glocal Online Classroom. We are four universities on four continents who have decided to build a global platform for collaboration and interchange in web-based learning, Starting in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in March, continuing in Guelph, Canada, in May, Malmö, Sweden, in September and ending at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, in November, we shall be carrying out a world series of seminars hosted by the participating universities.
At the recent 2014 Rural Research KTT Day: Rural Networking-Research into Action Conference two students from the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development received the following awards:
Professor Glen Filson, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development is mentioned in the April 2014 digital magazine Country Guide. The article is entitled "World Crops", a story of ethno-cultural vegetables which is the hottest trend in food crops.
Congratulations to Keisha Davis, MSc student in the Capacity Development and Extension program, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development who won the graduate student poster competition on April 15, 2014 at the 4th Annual Knowledge Exchange Day held in joint collaboration by OMAF, MRA and UofG. Keisha presented a poster about her thesis research, 'Crossover effects of ethno-cultural vegetables (ECV): Examining Guelph consumers' ECV preferences'. Her poster received the largest number of votes for the day, making her the 1st prize winner.
Most of us who work in agricultural and rural development sectors have an interest about role of social media in communication for social change. Ataharul Chowdhury and Helen Hambly in their article published in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Canadian Communication Association raise critiques on role of social media in collective change processes of agricultural and rural development. They argue that mere 'access to new media' does not suffice to enable social and collective change.