{"id":44555,"date":"2017-04-21T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44555"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T18:20:27","slug":"roundtable-to-explore-brock-community-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/04\/roundtable-to-explore-brock-community-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundtable to explore Brock-community partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock\u2019s Social Justice Research Institute (SJRI) is hosting a community research roundtable to discuss building partnerships between the University and the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event is set to take place Thursday, May 11 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Plaza 600F.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panelists will include Glen Walker, Chair of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wipeoutpoverty.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Niagara Poverty Reduction Network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Executive Director of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.positivelivingniagara.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Positive Living Niagara<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Marc Todd, Manager of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regional.niagara.on.ca\/social-services\/default.aspx?topnav=1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social Assistance and Employment Opportunities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Niagara Region; and Natalie Chaumont, Program Manager, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagararegion.ca\/social-services\/niagara-prosperity-initiative\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Niagara Prosperity Initiative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedwayniagara.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United Way of Niagara Falls and Greater Fort Erie<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock University President Tom Traves will also be in attendance to participate as a discussant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Niagara community members will share their research priorities and perspectives while also reflecting on how partnerships can be built to address urgent issues in a number of areas, such as poverty reduction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event is open to the Brock research community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone interested in attending is asked to RSVP to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:sjri@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sjri@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Friday, May 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More information about the event and the participating panelists is available on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/calendar-events\/32509\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SJRI website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Social Justice Research Institute (SJRI) is hosting a community research roundtable to discuss building partnerships between the University and the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[5234,720,617,5235,1083,5236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}