The document outlines the detailed program for the 1st Annual Rural Research Workshop with the theme "From Policy to Research and Back Again". The all-day event includes keynote addresses, research presentations in concurrent sessions on topics like social and community development, economic development, rural health, rural and agricultural policy. It also includes luncheon panel presentations from rural research institutes and a closing plenary discussion on next steps. The workshop aims to facilitate discussion between researchers and policymakers on rural issues.

1. DETAILED PROGRAMME
“FROM POLICY TO RESEARCH AND BACK AGAIN”
1ST ANNUAL RURAL RESEARCH WORKSHOP
May 5, 2011
* Simultaneous interpretation will be provided all day in Victoria Hall. Bytown Pavilion, 111 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
7:45 - 8:30 Registration & networking / Posters displayed all day
8:30 - 9:15 Keynote Address “From Policy to Research and Back Again: Evidence from the South”
– Julio A. Berdegué, Principal Researcher at RIMISP – Latin American Center for Rural Development
9:15 - 9:45 Federal Government Research Needs – Report from the Annual General Meeting of the federal Rural
Development Network
– Christine M. Burton, Acting Executive Director, Rural and Co-operatives Secretariat
9:45 - 10:00 Morning break
10:00 - 11:45 Research Presentations: Four concurrent sessions (CS)
P1- Social Isolation among Young Quebec Farmers (Diane Parent)
(This presentation will be given in French.)
CS1 SOCIAL AND
P2 - Measuring social support: A comparison of the New Rural Economy Project and
COMMUNITY General Social Survey approaches (Bill Reimer)
(Victoria Hall*) DEVELOPMENT I
P3 - Rethinking the rural health deficit: Does sense of belonging have an influence?
(Peter Kitchen)
P4 - The problem a (non) city is: The spatial distribution of creative workers
CS2 (Kevin Stolarick)
ECONOMIC P5 - The homogeneity dilemma: Fine tuning tourism supports for rural communities
DEVELOPMENT (Nicole Vaugeois)
(Ottawa
Room A) P6 - Managing Canada's rural regions in a knowledge-based economy
(Charles Conteh)
P7 - Setting the socio-historical context for professional ethics: Relevant professional
CS3 struggles for practising rural Canadian psychologists (Judi L. Malone)
P8 - Listening to the voices of rural Manitobans: Using consumer input to inform mental
RURAL HEALTH health planning at the regional level (Karen G. Dyck)
(Ottawa
Room B) P9 - Towards an understanding of the determinants of health in the old order of
Mennonites (Kathryn Fisher)
P10 - Now for the bad news: Prairie agriculture's contribution to the rural development
CS4 policy debate (Andrew N. Reed)
RURAL AND P11 - Triage at the periphery: Place-based policy in resource-dependent rural
AGRICULTURAL communities (Rose M. Olfert)
(Ottawa POLICY
Room C) P12 - The rural policy and agricultural policy interface: A quantitative assessment
(Alessandro Alasia)
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“From Policy to Research and Back Again”
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
12:15 - 1:00 Luncheon panel presentations:
Rural research institutes’ experiences with “From Policy to Research and Back Again”
 Bill Ashton – Rural Development Institute, Brandon University
 Greg Halseth – Rural and Small Town Studies Program, University of Northern British Columbia
 Bruno Jean – Centre de recherche sur le développement territorial, Université du Québec à Rimouski
1:00-2:45 Research Presentations: Four concurrent sessions (CS)
CHANGING P13 - Building rural health and supporting small-scale agriculture: A comparative case
CS5 PARADIGMS IN study of farm-to-school activity in Maine and Nova Scotia (Chloe Kennedy)
AGRICULTURE: P14 - Policy's role in socio-agricultural transition: A community study in Tatamagouche,
THE ATLANTIC Nova Scotia (Louise Hanavan)
(Victoria Hall*) CANADIAN
CONTEXT P15 - Co-operatives and emerging markets in Atlantic Canada (Greg Cameron)
P16 - Using mobility to gain stability: Household strategies and rural futures
CS6 SOCIAL AND (Deatra Walsh)
COMMUNITY P17 - Evidence-based program planning for rural economic development (Toby Williams)
DEVELOPMENT
(Ottawa P18 - Developing responsive, flexible policies to support youth in transition in the new
II
Room A) rural economy (Laura Ryser)
P19 – Understanding traditional food behaviour and food security in rural First Nation
CS7 SOCIAL AND communities: Implications for food policy (Connie H. Nelson)
COMMUNITY
P20 - Using the Geoweb to engage rural communities in economic and environmental
DEVELOPMENT
decision-making (Peter A. Johnson)
(Ottawa III
Room B) P21 - Campus in the country: Community college involvement in rural community
development (Nelson Rogers)
P22 - Reframing forest-based development as First Nation-municipal collaboration:
CS8 Lessons from Lake Superior's north shore (Ryan Bullock)
SUSTAINABLE P23 - Non-timber forest products, maple syrup and climate change (Brenda Murphy)
DEVELOPMENT
(Ottawa P24 – Attitudes towards new renewable energy technologies in the Eastern Ontario
Room C) Highlands (Stewart Fast)
2:45 - 3:00 Afternoon break
3:00 - 4:25 Plenary: Where do we go from here?
A facilitated discussion among all participants on what we heard, what we did not hear, and where we need to go from
here.
4:25 - 4:30 Closing remarks
Co-chair, 2011 Rural Research Workshop
* Simultaneous interpretation will be provided all day in Victoria Hall.
WORKSHOP PARTNERS
Natural Resources Canada