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Practicum students and Habitus

This blog post focuses on the multiple benefits of practicums for post-secondary secondary students and employers and showcases one practicum student - Matsuyuki Hara. Practicums are opportunities for everyone to learn: they can be transformative field education experiences for students, and offer chances for workplaces to reflect on their own work and improve what they…

Unlocking Potential: Transforming Work-Integrated Learning for Neurodivergent Students

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Imagine a world where every student, regardless of how their brain works, has the opportunity to thrive in their education and career. Unfortunately, that's not always the case. Did you know that according to the Conference Board of Canada, "despite increasing enrollment rates, neurodivergent students are less likely to graduate than their neurotypical peers. Neurodivergent…

Is it Research or Is it Community Engagement?

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This post begins a four-part series exploring how community engagement and community-led research can work together to shift power and create lasting change. Earlier this month Habitus convened a trans-Atlantic panel of practitioners to tackle a deceptively simple question: What really separates community engagement from community-led research? And once we have that insight, how…

Talking Taxes: Empowering Indigenous Communities Through Tax Filing

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Today, we're diving into a topic that might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about community empowerment, but it's incredibly impactful: taxes. Specifically, we're looking at the "Talking Taxes" pilot program and its significant role in supporting Indigenous communities. The Talking Taxes Pilot: A Collaborative Effort The Talking Taxes…

How And Why You Should Be Investing In Peer-Led Research

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Peer Researchers and academic researchers both have value within community-based research*. Academic researchers bring a certain level of knowledge about research methodologies, methods, and ethics to research processes. However, the value of academic researchers is generally more well known within the general population compared to Peer Researchers. According to the Young Foundation (2020), peer led…

Hair & Racism

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Since the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, society has faced a reckoning with how racism pervades daily life and shapes the world that we live in. Living in a country with an active history of colonialism means that whether it is policing, housing, or employment, it is impossible to escape the impact of racism.…