Community-University Research Partnerships in Canadian Social Economy

1. Community-University Research Partnerships: Reflections on the Canadian Social Economy Experience Peter V. Hall and Ian MacPherson (editors), University of Victoria, 2011.

2. Funded Social Economy CURAs

3. Chapter 1: Introduction: Learning from the Social Economy Community-University Research Partnerships • Peter Hall with Janel Smith, Aliez Kay, Rupert Downing, Ian MacPherson & Annie McKitrick • Chapter 2: Why Staying the Course is Important: Reflecting on the Community-University Relationships Associated with the Canadian Social Economy Research Partnership, 2005-2011 • Ian MacPherson & Mike Toye • Chapter 3:Partners in Research: Reflections on Creating and Sustaining a Collaborative Research Network • Leslie Brown • Chapter 4: Proposal for Evaluating the Research Partnership Process • Denis Bussières & Jean-Marc Fontan • Chapter 5: Community University Research: The Southern Ontario Social Economy Research Alliance • Jennifer Hann, Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter &UshnishSengupta • Chapter 6: Respectful Research Relations: Learnings from Communities • Gayle Broad • Chapter 7: Research as Engagement: Rebuilding the Knowledge Economy of the Northern Saskatchewan Trappers Association Co-operative • Isobel M. Findlay, Clifford Ray& Maria Basualdo • Chapter 8: Pushing the Boundaries? Community-University Engagement and the British Columbia-Alberta Research Alliance on the Social Economy • Karen Heisler, Mary Beckie & Sean Markey • Chapter 9: Researching the Social Economy in Canada’s North: Reflections on the Node Partnerships and Processes • Chris Southcott, Valoree Walker, David Natcher, Jennifer Alsop, Tobi Jeans & Nicholas Falvo • Chapter 10: The Academic/Practitioner Divide - Fact or Fiction? Reflections on the Role of the Lead Staff Person • Annie McKitrick, Stuart Wulff, Heather Acton, Denis Bussières, Noreen Miller, Laurie Mook &Valoree Walker • Afterword • Edward T. Jackson

4. Appendix A: Organizational Structures • A1 Structure of the Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships • A2 BC and Alberta Node (BALTA) • A3 Atlantic Node: The Social Economy and Sustainability Research Network • A4 Social Economy Research Network of Northern Canada (SERNNoCa) • A5 Southern Ontario: Social Economy Center at OISE • A6 Northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan Node: Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Social Enterprises, Knowledgeable Economies and Sustainable Communities • A7 Québec Node: The Alliance de rechercheuniversités-communautés en économiesociale (ARUC-ÉS) and the Réseauquébécois de recherché partenariale en économiesociale (RQRP-ÉS) • Appendix B: Quebec Coordinator Reflections (French) • Appendix C: Fostering Positive Community Research Partnerships • List of Tables: • Table 1.1 - Funded Social Economy CURAs • Table 1.2 - Categories, Keywords and Questions for Understanding Engaged Research Partnerships • Table 3.1 - Partnered Research – A Taste of the Complexities • Table 3.2 - Enabling a Transformational Approach to Research Partnership • Table 3.1 - Enabling a Transformational Approach to Research Partnership • Table 4.1- Evaluation of Research Partnerships • Table 4.2 - Example of the Evaluation of Research Partnerships • Table 4.3 - Les projets du Réseauquébécois de recherchepartenariale en économiesociale • Table 5.1 - Southern Ontario Research Node • Table 5.2 - Alliance Sub-projects • Table 6.1 - Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northern Ontario Research Node • Table 8.1 - BALTA Project Timeline and Evaluation Program • Table 8.2 - BALTA Research Projects • Table 9.1 - SERNNoCa Research Projects • Table 11.1 - Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships: Seven Different Organizational Models • List of Figures • Figure 3.1 - Iterative Processes for a Collaborative and Sustainable Research Partnership • Figure 3.2 - Governance Diagram • Figure 4.1 - Research Partnership Space • Figure 4.2 - Example of the Research Partnership Space • Figure 5.1 - Variations of Research • Figure 5.2 - Project Classification: Southern Ontario Social Economy Research Alliance • Figure 8.1 - BALTA External and Internal Process Engagement

5. Some Key Characteristics of the Six Nodes and the Hub The six regional nodes were: Atlantic; Québec; Southern Ontario; Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northern Ontario; British Columbia and Alberta (BALTA); & Northern Canada. Number of time zones working across: ranged from five for the Hub and Northern Node to one for Quebec and Southern Ontario. Number of provinces and territories worked in: Half a province for the Southern Ontario Node (mostly the Greater Toronto area), one for Québec, two for BALTA, four for the Atlantic Node, three for the Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northern Ontario Node, and three territories and two provinces for the Northern Node. Number of languages: One for the Québec Node, two for the Hub, Atlantic and Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northern Ontario Nodes and between three to five for the Northern Node depending on the territory (Yukon – 8 aboriginal languages, NWT – 9 aboriginal languages, Nunavut & Nunavik– Inuktitut). Some BALTA outputs have been translated into French, German, Japanese and Swedish. The Hub assisted with the translation of material – mostly from French to English. Starting date: Four nodes and the hub began in September 2005 and two of the nodes began in March/April 2006. Experience of Social Economy research: One node had no staff with prior experience in working or researching the Social Economy, four nodes had Principal Investigators who had worked together in the past and belonged to the same academic society (Canadian Association for the Study of Cooperation), and one node was headed by a community organization with few ties to the academic researchers.

6. Categories, Keywords and Questions for Understanding Engaged Research Partnerships • Governance (e.g., who decides which research projects?) • Networking (e.g., are they building on and/or building new networks?) • Definition of the sector (e.g., was the sector pre-defined?) • Content of research (e.g., what topics, how do new topics get included?) • Process (methods) of research (e.g., participatory content of actual research?) • Capacity-building (e.g., university capacity to reach out, student and community training) • Evaluation (e.g., who evaluates, when, to what effect?) • Knowledge mobilization (e.g., what dissemination formats are employed?)

7. Atlantic Node Governance

8. BALTA External and Internal Process Engagement