Congratulations to Dr. Alana Westwood, Dr. Alana Lajoie-O’Malley, Samantha Chu, and Mary Legorburu for recently being awarded highly competitive awards. Dr. Westwood was awarded the Top Cited Article Award for the paper on “A systematic map of knowledge exchange across the science-policy interface for forest science: How can we improve consistency and effectiveness?” This paperContinue reading “Celebrating 2024-2025 awards and scholarships to Westwood Lab members “
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Celebrating recent awards and scholarships to Westwood Lab members
Congratulations to lab members Samantha Chu and Ben Collison for recently being awarded highly competitive scholarships from the federal tri-council funding agencies. Sam’s MES thesis proposal “Effective researcher-end-user knowledge exchange: understanding the preferences of foresters” earned her a Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the upcomingContinue reading “Celebrating recent awards and scholarships to Westwood Lab members “
Celebrating recent awards and scholarships at the Lab
Congratulations are in order for lab member, Riley Scanlan for winning a presenter award for her paper presentation at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers in May 2023. Awesome job, Riley! Incoming MES Student, Samantha Chu also earned a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship for her thesis proposal investigating the knowledge exchange preferencesContinue reading “Celebrating recent awards and scholarships at the Lab “
Knowledge exchange in forestry: What is it and what’s effective?
Managing forests is not as simple as growing or cutting down trees. Global forest management is the complex interplay of government policies and directives, cultural and spiritual values, stakeholder perspectives, and efforts from both industry and conservationists to maintain ecological functions of forests. No one management style perfectly combines science, policy, stakeholder needs and culturalContinue reading “Knowledge exchange in forestry: What is it and what’s effective?”
WESTWOOD LAB AND PARTNERS WIN SSHRC PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GRANT AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT AGENCY OF CANADA (IAAC) RESEARCH PROGRAM GRANT
Dr. Alana Westwood will be principal investigator on two innovative projects that will generate new, collaborative, and evidence-based knowledge in the sectors of forestry and impact assessment. The first, the SSHRC-funded three-year project What constitutes effective knowledge exchange at the environmental science-policy interface? will continue previous research done by the lab and partners on knowledgeContinue reading “WESTWOOD LAB AND PARTNERS WIN SSHRC PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GRANT AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT AGENCY OF CANADA (IAAC) RESEARCH PROGRAM GRANT”
ALANA WESTWOOD & COLLEAGUES WIN INGSA DIGITAL POSTER AWARD FOR THEIR PROJECT ON KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IN FORESTRY
Members of the Westwood Lab and colleagues from Carleton University, Natural Resources Canada, McGill University and University of Toronto Scarborough were one of the five to win the Digital Poster award at the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA). Their digital poster, “Understanding knowledge exchange in natural resource management”, was presented by Alana WestwoodContinue reading “ALANA WESTWOOD & COLLEAGUES WIN INGSA DIGITAL POSTER AWARD FOR THEIR PROJECT ON KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IN FORESTRY”
DALHOUSIE, CARLETON & NRCAN PARTNERSHIP PUBLISH PAPER ON KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IN FOREST SCIENCE: PART 1
Members of the Westwood Lab and colleagues from Carleton University, Natural Resources Canada, McGill University and University of Toronto Scarborough published systematic map protocol in the open-access journal, Ecological Solutions & Evidence! This paper is Part 1 of a two-part Registered Report that includes the study design of the paper (introduction and methods). This reviewContinue reading “DALHOUSIE, CARLETON & NRCAN PARTNERSHIP PUBLISH PAPER ON KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IN FOREST SCIENCE: PART 1”
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