Community-Based Research Canada presents “Moving the Dial”: our 2023 E-Learning series. This series will highlight action-oriented community-based research that is ‘moving the dial’ on today’s pressing societal challenges. An important hallmark of community-based research, taking an action-orientated and impactful approach, means research partnerships mobilizing knowledge and mobilizing communities towards positive societal change. The research projects […]

In this workshop, participants will build on the skills learned in part I and learn some more advanced geospatial data manipulation and analysis.

Current discussions of the metaverse and the increase in VR adoption make this an opportune time to consider how data can, is, and could be employed in virtual reality and immersive environments. In virtual reality, people exist as data. These data provide opportunities for research and innovation, but also commodification and surveillance. As part of […]

When it comes to anti-oppressive frameworks, there are comprehensive resources on how to be race and gender inclusive. However, while many understand that ableism is wrong, we might struggle with how to identify and unpack it. This workshop, led by facilitators from the Community Resistance Intimacy Project (CRIP Collective), addresses ableism within an intersectional framework, […]

In this workshop, participants will learn about various types of spatial data (vector, raster and tabular), the basic ArcGIS Online tools required to load, manipulate and visualize spatial data, and to export results into a web map and to import these results in ArcGIS StoryMaps.

  This workshop introduces the basics of text analysis–including creating a textual collection, data cleaning and preparation, and analytical methods–using the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. No prior experience with text analysis is required and this workshop does not require coding. This workshop is a suitable starting point for using other text analysis tools available at […]

In this workshop, participants will learn about various types of spatial data (vector, raster and tabular), the basic ArcGIS Pro tools required to load, manipulate and visualize spatial data, and to export results.