This session explores lessons learned in collaborations between academic researchers, students, and community-based practitioners working for non-profit organizations active in Canada’s food movement. Collaboration on a joint project, even when there is a shared vision, is not always easy. We ultimately also have different goals to meet, needs, and access to resources. Such factors can complicate the collaborative project. At the same time, success produces results that no one individual or organization could have achieved on its own. It reports on results of the second year of projects supported by the Community Food Security hub of the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) research project, grounded in a partnership between Carleton University and Food Secure Canada, and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Presenters will speak to the lessons learned from evaluations of five community-campus partnerships from across Canada undertaken in 2013-14.
