Steering & Advisory Committees
The Steering Committee is co-chaired by Sandra Richardson, CEO of the Victoria Foundation, Linda Hughes, CEO of the United Way of Greater Victoria and Howard Brunt, Vice-President Research, UVic. The committee has an equal number of community and university representatives, including three deans, three centre representatives and an Aboriginal faculty member on the university side. The External Advisory Committee is chaired by Dr. Rajesh Tandon of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia.
Steering Committee
- Sandra Richardson, CEO of the Victoria Foundation, Community Co-Chair
- Linda Hughes, CEO of the United Way of Greater Victoria, Community Co-Chair
- Howard Brunt, Vice-President Research-UVic, Co-Chair
- Lynn Cummings, Vancouver Island Health Authority
- Ruth Young, Acting Director, Office of Indigenous Affairs
- Peter Keller, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Ken Kelly, General Manager, Downtown Victoria Business Association
- Anne Marshall, Director, Centre for Youth and Society
- Jean McRae, Executive Director, Inter-Cultural Association
- Nella Nelson, Coordinator, Aboriginal Education, School District 61
- Ana Maria Peredo, Director, British Columbia Institute for Cooperative Studies
- Mary Ellen Purkis, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Development
- Ted Riecken, Dean, Faculty of Education
- Lorna Williams, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Knowledge and Learning
External Advisory Committee
- Rajesh Tandon, President, Society for Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi, India Chair
- Jim Crowther, Popular Education Network, Edinburgh University, Scotland
- Caspar de Bok, International Office, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Jean-Marc Fontan, Director, ARUC-ES, Université du Québec un Montréal. (UQAM)
- John Gaventa, Director, Coady International Institute and VP of International Development, StFX
- Peter Levesque, Consultant, Knowledge Mobilization, Ottawa
- Marjorie Mayo, Goldsmiths College-London, UK
- Sarena Seifer, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
- Randy Stoeker, University of Wisconsin, US
University of Victoria Liaisons
- Grant Hughes, Director, Community Relations
- Inba Kehoe, Scholarly Communications, UVic Library
- Bruce Kilpatrick, Director, University Communications
- Joaquin Trapero, Special Programs Officer, Research Services
- Nirmala Lall, Associate, Office of Community Based Research
Staff and Academic Team
- Michael Miller, Associate Vice-President Research
- Maureen Duncan, Acting Community Director, Office of Community Based Research
- Maeve Lydon, Associate Director, Office of Community Based Research
- Leslie Brown, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Human and Social Development
- John Lutz, History Department
- Budd Hall, Human & Social Development
- Rowena Locklin, Administration, Office of Community Based Research