Four SEDRD graduate students were recently profiled by the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation [1] (CRRF) as emerging rural scholars! The February 2020 CRRF national newsletter [2] highlighted the research being conducted by Victoria Agyepong, Koren Lam, and Ashleigh Weeden.  The research themes are noted below:

• Victoria Aygepong: Bringing People to the Centre: Governance of Digital Circular Food Economy in Non-Metro Ontario.
• Angela Asuncion: Canada and the Philippines - A comparative analysis of environmental corporate social responsibility practices and their associated impacts on rural communities
• Koren Lam: Rural Telecommuters in Southwestern Ontario
• Ashleigh Weeden: Developing a Place-Based Approach to Rural Innovation Policy

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