1. Critical Junctures in Research Practice & Policy
November 5, 2010
Faculty of Land & Food Systems
Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems
Will Valley
PhD candidate
Project Coordinator
Think&EatGreen@School
Yona Sipos
PhD candidate
Project Coordinator
UBC Based Community
Food Assessment Project
Dr. Alejandro Rojas
Associate Professor
Principal 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
2. • Context
• Culture of fragmentation
• Land, Food and Community series
• Community inquiry & engagement
• What have we learned?
Our pathway
3. l Fragmentation of knowledge, faculty, community-
university relations, learner's persona
l Fragmentation of food persona: disconnect and deskilling
4. The Land, Food & CommunityThe Land, Food & Community SeriesSeries
StructureStructure & Projects& Projects
LFC I: Awareness
à Think&EatGreen@School (Food Security Project in Vancouver)
LFC II: Tools and Methodology
àUBC Based Community Food Assessment
Project in BC
LFC III: Application
àUBC Food System Project
5. Food System
Projects
Community generated
research agenda
Externally
generated
research agenda
Community
inquiry
Community
engagement
Map of Participatory Research ApproachesMap of Participatory Research Approaches
CommunityCommunity
EngagedEngaged
ScholarshipScholarship
6. 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
