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Dear <<First Name>>,

Welcome to the Winter 2019 issue of News that Nourishes, the first newsletter from the Live Work Well Research Centre, located within the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph.

We are excited to share our work, news, and upcoming events, and look forward to engaging with you in the year ahead. We will publish and distribute our newsletter four times each year, with many ways to contribute, including guest posts, research spotlights, twitter take-overs, and more. Got other ideas? Great, get in touch and let us know. We look forward to hearing from you!

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20th Anniversary and Relaunch


At the 20th anniversary celebration of the Centre for Families Work and Well-being held at the end of November 2018, we announced a new name and a new strategic direction for the Centre. 2018 marked two decades of anticipating and responding to challenges and changes in family patterns, paid work and broad economic, political, and social structures. The founding mission was to direct research and promote family and individual well-being, responsive workplaces, and sustainable communities.

The Centre's renewed mission under its new name, The Live Work Well Research Centre, embraces and continues this tradition of research impact and innovation, while also cultivating and connecting with communities where all families, livelihoods and living environments flourish. Collaborative workshops held over the past year informed the new name and renewed mission. From these workshops our direction and purpose seemed clear: in order for the researchers at the Centre to fully understand the complex issues facing people, their families and communities, the Centre's work needed to begin at the margins, expanding understandings of families, work and well-being in all their diverse forms. Read more about The Live Work Well Research Centre's celebration and renaming.
man engaging with dragonfly puzzle activity at Centre event
A guest participates in an interactive dragonfly activity, answering questions about family, livelihoods, living environments, and well-being.
Dragonfly with mosaic wings
The interactive dragonfly activity is still open. Follow the link to send us your ideas about families, livelihoods, living environment and well-being, and your thoughts will become part of our new Centre symbol.
Research cluster posters, which feature five intersecting areas of research that relate to diverse forms of families, work and well-being.
The Centre organizes its work in Research Clusters, which were featured on posters at the celebration event. Photo credit to the talented Tenille K. Campbell, a Dene/Métis photographer and author from English River First Nation in Northern Saskatchewan. Her photographs are featured in the "All My Relations" Research Cluster.
Live Work Well Centre staff celebrating with cake at the 25th Anniversary & Renaming event
Live Work Well Centre staff celebrating with cake at the 25th Anniversary & Renaming event. 
Musical performance by Professor Kim Anderson and her son, Rajan Anderson.

Around the Centre

Research Clusters

Beginning from the margins, our research is focused on five intersecting research clusters, with each cluster exploring complex themes and the ways they influence work, family and well-being in all their diverse forms. When we look at the research within and across each cluster and beyond, we explore the effects on diverse families and individual well-being, changes in work and livelihoods, factors that shape work and family relationships, needed policy changes and community actions.

Our research clusters are looking for folks to get involved in their planning, events, research, and collaborations. All are welcome and encouraged: people with lived experience, researchers, students, community organizations, and any intersection of those and more!  "All My Relations" research cluster provides Indigenous mentoring and networking, and land-based learning and activities. Displacement, Emergence and Change research cluster focuses on building inclusive cities, communities, towns and governance models to respond to displacements resulting from resource extraction, lack of living wages, and other broad socioeconomic and political shifts and challenges. Disabilities, Access and Inclusion research cluster takes an intersectional approach to disability studies and considers the complex ways that disability in all its diverse forms affects families, livelihoods and well-being. Sexual and Gender Diversity research cluster explores the intersections of sexuality, gender, sex and relationships, and how they relate to diverse families, work and well-being. Integrating Care & Livelihoods research cluster explores care across the life course including policies focused on care-providers, leave policies and research, and the complexities of work-life conflicts. Read more about the Centre's work.

Research Spotlight

Live Work Well Research Centre Awarded Research Grant

The Live Work Well Research Centre and The Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination have been awarded a one-year Partnership Engage Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The research project titled Storied Lives: shifting perspectives on poverty, will develop a collection of composite stories of those living in poverty in the Guelph-Wellington, Ontario region. 

These composite stories will work to change public attitudes and assumptions, particularly among policy and decision-makers, by amplifying the voices of those experiencing poverty. Composite stories paint a powerful first-person narrative that is made up of multiple realities and diverse experiences. These stories will help to humanize the experiences of those living in poverty in the Guelph-Wellington region and will provide a meaningful, intersectional and inclusive response to the current social and political climate in Ontario. Read more about this project.

 

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Community Well-being and the Role of Community-engaged Scholarship

Community-engaged scholarship (CES) can enhance community members' well-being while informing local policy conversations. Research co-investigated by Professor Leah Levac, the Centre's Displacements, Emergence and Change cluster co-lead, explores how a community-engaged scholarship (CES) framework can help us better understand and learn from community resilience. Read “Towards a Framework for Building Community-University Resilience Research Agendas”
 

Upcoming Events


Families in Canada Conference

March 27th and 28th, 2019

On March 27 and 28, 2019, the Live Work Well Research Centre will co-host a Guelph-based satellite Families in Canada Conference 2019 with the Vanier Institute of the Family. This unique and inclusive series of events will bring together diverse leaders from across the country who study, serve and support families in Canada for two days of knowledge-sharing and catalytic conversation. Read more & register!


Guelph Winter Pride Week

February 2nd to February 10th, 2019

Guelph Winter Pride is a week long celebration of LGBT2Q+ creativity, resiliency, and the many ways love is shared and experienced. There are many events - many of which are accessible, sober, and free! Be sure to check out the Staff & Students Meet 'n' Greet at the University of Guelph on February 4, 2019, where LGBT2Q+ students, profs, staff, and faculty will gather to discuss navigating life as an LGBT2Q+ person on campus, or check out one of the many other Winter Pride events in the Guelph community.


Accessibility Conference

May 28th and 29th, 2019

Ensuring that Ontario reaches its goal of full accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities will require a dedicated, informed and resourceful community of supporters and advocates. The Accessibility Conference is a yearly event hosted at the University of Guelph to bring together experts to share best practices, knowledge, and research. The conference brings together traditional and non-traditional ways of teaching and learning to talk about the AODA, legislation, and other issues surrounding diversity and inclusion. To keep up to date on the latest news join the Accessibility Conference Contact List.


Sexuality Conference

June 20th to 21st, 2019

The Guelph Sexuality Conference is recognized as Canada's leading, annual training and education forum for sexual health professionalsIt provides opportunities to share information, research, skills, experiences, programming, and strategies that include an anti-oppression framework to foster health and wellness, and resists shame. 

Call for Submissions

Societies Special Issue

Special Issue: Families, Work and Well-being
We invite manuscript submissions for a special issue exploring the interconnections between and among diverse forms of families, challenges as a result of changing forms of work and livelihoods, and how these affect individual’s, families’ and communities’ well-being. This special issue, edited by The Live Work Well Research Centre's Director, Deborah Stienstra, invites authors to begin from the perspectives of those who have often been at the margins in discussions of families and work.

This special issue is now open for submissions. Manuscripts should be submitted online at the Societies Special Issues website.

Deadline: June 15, 2019

Stay Engaged

Become a member!

It's free and all researchers, students and community members are welcome. We also encourage and welcome organizations that are interested in or already doing work in responding to the changing needs of families, livelihoods and living environments. Become a member and participate, collaborate and contribute to knowledge sharing, research and teaching in many areas. 

Twitter Take-over!
If you are a researcher, student or community member, and you are interested in communicating to diverse individuals about a topic or issue related to families, work and well-being, share your voice and experience through our social media. Contact us and we would be happy to chat with you about it!
 

 

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