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Conference announcement: The Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education

The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development and Ontario Agricultural College will be hosting the international conference of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) in Guelph, April 26–29, 2023. Established in 1984, AIAEE is a leading international professional organization for agricultural and extension educators who share a common goal of strengthening agricultural and extension education programs and institutions worldwide.

CELA 2023 Conference Logo Competition Won by BLA student Shayla Spalding

Congratulations to Bachelor of Landscape Architecture student, Shayla Spalding who won the graphic design competition for the 2023 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture annual conference.  

graphic image of mountains/city on graph with vertical linesImage above:  CELA graphic image created by BLA student, Shayla Spalding.

PhD Candidate Ashleigh Weeden starts 2022 with a spate of publications addressing key challenges in contemporary rural development policy and practice

The first half of 2022 has seen a number of publications by Rural Studies PhD Candidate Ashleigh Weeden. These research contributions cover a range of current challenges facing rural communities written largely through the lens of exploring what “the right to be rural” means for contemporary rural development and policy. From explorations of pandemic-driven displacements to the challenges of modeling rural connectivity policies, Ashleigh has worked with colleagues across the province and across Canada to produce the following publications:

Interview with BLA student, Emma Cervinka

Emma Cervinka, a third year Bachelor of Landscape Architecture student, was recently interviewed for the Ontario Agricultural College Q&A article and discussed her experience in the landscape architecture program and the takeaways from the paid experiential learning through the course LARC*4620 Internship in Landscape Architecture, where she worked at Proslide Technology Inc, a waterslide and waterpark design company based in Ottawa, Ontario.  Learn more in the article entitled

The Impact of Worker Housing Location on Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program Participants

On March 26, 2022, Louis Helps, a PhD student in the Rural Studies program, presented at the 24th Metropolis Conference – Reopening Canada: Looking to the Future of Immigration, Settlement, and Integration in Vancouver. Metropolis is the largest national annual event gathering people from across academia, government, and the private and non-profit sectors to discuss issues pertaining to Canadian immigration.

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