About Us

What We Do

Offer Professional Development

  • Provide mentoring and consultation to individuals and groups in exploring questions about practice and in developing and carrying out research-in-practice projects.
  • Offer training workshops tailored to meet the needs of groups or communities.
  • Assist groups to organize and facilitate local and regional research-in-practice events.
  • Host and facilitate electronic conferences on projects and emerging issues.

Promote Research in Practice

  • Distribute information through various means including our brochure, e-bulletin and web site.
  • Present at conferences and meetings.
  • Organize gatherings to promote discussion, reflection and participation in research in practice.

Develop Partnerships and Sustainability

  • Work with a provincial advisory committee to embed support for research in practice in organizations and institutions throughout the province.
  • Develop new partnerships.
  • Collaborate with other research-in-practice initiatives across the province and the country.
  • Develop collaborative projects that take a research-in-practice approach to issues in literacy and adult basic education.