Lakehead University
EN-10: Inter-Campus Collaboration

The Lakehead University Student Union has collaborated with Confederation College to plan and provide workshops on food security and life-skills. They have also collaborated with their gardens. The Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies brought Jean McGregor of Evergreen State College in for a workshop on "Sustainability Across the Curriculum" in Spring of 2014. Jean facilitated a three day workshop for faculty and staff. Lakehead's Orillia Campus has plans to create a Centre for Sustainable Communities. Creation of the research centre is one of the goals included in Lakehead’s 2013-18 Orillia campus plan. The overarching aim of the Centre for Sustainable Communities will be to conduct and promote research and research-related activities that have positive implications for the sustainability of communities The Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies has a partnership with York University, working with Dr. Steve Alsop in the Policy Enactments and Sustainability Education project. PEASE. http://iris.info.yorku.ca/projects/pease/ October, 2015. The Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies will co-host with the Faculties of Education from the University Alberta and the University of British Columbia the Fifth International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry. Vancouver: UBE. August, 2014. The Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies co-hosted the annual conference of Association for Literature, the Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC), Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario. April, 2014. The Centre convened a Sustainability From the Inside Out workshop convened in Philadelphia at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September, 2012.The Centre co-hosted a research symposium in partnership with the Department of Aboriginal Education entitled Indigenous and Place-Responsive Learning Across Cultures and Geographies. The symposium included presentations by the visiting scholars from New Zealand, as well as from several Lakehead Faculty across several disciplines. The symposium fostered a community of practitioners and scholars engaged in Indigenous and cross-cultural research through place-based knowledge traditions, pedagogies, and practices. Visiting Scholars and publications hosted by the Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies: September, 2012. Prof. Lynne Harata Te Aika: Head of School for Aotahi – School of Maori and Indigenous Studies and Dr. Richard Manning: Coordinator of Treaty Education Programme & LecturerTe Whare Wananga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury Otautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Prof. Lynne Te Aika and Dr. Richard Manning are respected scholars in Indigenous education at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. June, 2012. Joel Pontius, PhD(c), The University of Wyoming. PhD candidate Joel Pontius visited the Centre to discuss place-based education with Centre members, and to write up previous research with Dr. Greenwood (Pontius, J. & Greenwood, D. (in press). Hunting for environmental education. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education.) Based on a survey conducted by the Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies, faculty, staff, and graduate students reported the following collaborations with other campuses: - Formal partnership with the Dept of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia through a SSHRC research grant. - Co-applicant on a PDG grant with the University of Windsor (Faculty of Education) that is focused on Indigenous youth civic engagement and democratic participation through resilience-based approaches. - Involvement with a project coordinated out of Queen's University (Geography) on increasing non-Indigenous peoples' knowledge of Indigenous peoples, knowledge, land, history and issues for improving the understanding of all Canadian issues--especially land-based issues. - Collaboration with Shanxi Agricultural University in China on C budget and sequestration of forest ecosystem. - Research project with James Cook University, Australia on "Linking the Tropics and Sub-Arctic in Climate Change Education". Funded by International Research Linkages Program, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. - Involvement with Environmental Education SIG of American Educational Research Association (former Program Chair and Chair of SIG). - Involvement in local organizing for the North American Association for Environmental Education conference to be held in Ottawa this October, 2014. - Humanities 101 is a program that links the two Lakehead campuses informally at this time. It is also a community outreach program that promotes sustainability through specific topic choices within the program, as well as through encouraging students to consider sustainable practices in their own lives.

In 2013/2014 Lakehead was a member of AASHE.