MA Geography Speaker Series presents…
‘We Need More of This’: Benefits of a University-Community Rural Land Use Planning Partnership

Dr. Christopher Fullerton, Department of Geography, Brock University

Date: Oct 31, 2014
Time: 10 am to 12 Noon
Location:  MC C405

Abstract: Rural communities often do not have the financial or technical capacity to undertake major land use planning exercises. At the same time, university-based researchers have increasingly been called upon to engage with communities outside the academy in order both to demonstrate the practical relevance of their research activities and to provide their students with hands-on experience that might help them secure employment after graduating. Thus, there is an excellent opportunity for universities to partner with rural communities to address their respective needs. This presentation will document one such initiative, a seven-year project through which the author and a total of seventeen Brock University Geography students worked with the Township of South Algonquin to create its first ever land use plan. Among other benefits, this initiative provided a much-needed set of formal land use policies for the municipality, a rich body of rural development research data for the faculty member, and career-oriented community planning experience for the students.

The Social Justice and Equity Studies Program is pleased to provide a presentation/conversation with Dr. Anne Harris on “Queer Youth Drama”.

“Pay and Working Conditions: When Being a Man or a Woman is Less Important than the Sex of Your Co-workers”

A talk by Dr. Brendan Burchell, University of Cambridge

Wednesday November 12 at 1 pm in Welch Hall 207

Description:
This presentation uses data visualisation to pick apart the effects of an employee’s own sex, social class and the gendering of the occupation to get a detailed understanding of their impact on pay, hours of work and working conditions. In many cases being female has less impact on job quality than working in a feminized environment.  Hidden and complex patterns in the data are discovered through careful graphing of the data.

Biography:
Dr Brendan Burchell is a Reader in the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Magdalene College.  His research interests include gender differences in working conditions, and aspects of labour markets that impinge upon individual wellbeing such as job insecurity and work intensity, zero hours contracts and unemployment.

This talk is sponsored by the Centre for Labour Studies at Brock University.