Research Shop

This report outlines a community-based research process that took place in Guelph and Wellington County during the winter, spring and summer of 2010 in collaboration with the Guelph and Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination. For this project, community members with lived experience of poverty were trained to work as community researchers in order to identify gaps in services and programs and issues with accessing services and programs for those living in poverty.

The rapid response project gathered success stories from representatives of the working/action groups of the Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination. This report outlines the methodologies used in the project, summarizes the major themes that arose from the responses, and provides suggestions for the continued collection of this data in the future.

Rapid response research contributed to a Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination research profile that examines the use of public parks in low income neighbourhoods, including availability, types, and quality.

Resulting from a collaborative research project involving the Human Rights and Equity Office (HREO) at the University of Guelph and the Research Shop, this report examines the value of mentoring as a strategy for inclusion for racialized faculty members at Canadian universities.

Prepared for the Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy, this rapid response report investigates the question of whether youth and adult addiction services should be integrated or separated. An annotated bibliography is appended to the report.

Rapid response research contributed to a Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination research profile that examines different furniture bank models, the impacts of furniture banks, and the need for a furniture bank in Guelph and Wellington.

This report presents the findings of a research team from the Research Shop on the emergency food service system in Guelph-Wellington. Strengths and weaknesses of the current system, local programs and services to improve food security, and best practices and new strategies in emergency food provision and food security are discussed.

This rapid response research brief for the Guelph Wellington Food Round Table provides a literature review and environmental scan of communication strategies used for promoting food security in Ontario, identifying methods that have been found to be useful.

This review of the social science literature identifies successful and unsuccessful strategies for promoting community-level energy efficiency. It was conducted to identify best practices for promoting energy efficient behaviour at the community-level, as well as promoting recruitment/outreach to community-level energy efficiency programs.

Together with the Healthy Communitites Ontario Fund, the Research Shop conducted a scan of the types of collaborations related to healthy communities that exist in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (WDG). This comprehensive report provides insight into the current state of collaborations in WDG, including their key characteristics and strategic approaches, as well as an analysis of strengths and challenges of existing collaborations.