Suzuette Soomai, Interdisciplinary PhD student with the EIUI initiative, has been named a recipient of a Michael Smith Foreign Study grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Suzuette currently holds a prestigious three-year Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) from SSHRC. The Michael Smith Foreign Study grant will support her […]
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Grey Literature Matters — Climate Change Especially Matters
Grey literature takes centre stage in international circles today (27 September 2013) when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the first of three summaries on the state of the world’s climate, specifically written for policy makers. This summary is the first part of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, which will culminate in the […]
EIUI Presents Workshop “Marine Information Matters” 20-21 September 2013
The Environmental Information: Use and Influence research initiative presents a workshop on “Marine Information Matters: Probing Its Use and Influence in Policy and Decision Making” on Saturday, 21 September. The one-day workshop will be preceded by a public lecture by Dr. Richard Grainger, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (Rome) on Friday, 20 […]
Richard Grainger to Give Public Lecture in Halifax on How Fisheries Information Influences Policy
Dr. Richard Grainger, recently Chief of Statistics and Information in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, will give a public lecture at Dalhousie University on Friday, 20 September, entitled “How does information influence policy? The role of fishery organizations in policy-making for fisheries.” Date / Time: […]
Does the global focus on Marine Protected Area (MPA) targets undermine long-term conservation objectives?
Elizabeth De Santo, a member of the EIUI research team, has published a paper in the Journal of Environmental Management titled “Missing marine protected area (MPA) targets: How the push for quantity over quality undermines sustainability and social justice.” The paper takes a critical look at the global trend towards designating enormous swaths of marine […]
Peter Wells Receives the Susan Snow-Cotter Leadership Award
Dr. Peter Wells, a founding member of the Environmental Information: Use and Influence research team, has been named the 2013 recipient of the Susan Snow-Cotter Leadership Award by the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment (GOMC). The award was presented at an awards ceremony in Salem, Massachusetts on 12 June 2013. The Susan […]
Information to Policy Challenge – Public Lecture – 8 March 2013
Bertrum MacDonald was featured as the first speaker in the series of public lectures offered by the Dalhousie School of Public Administration in collaboration with the Nova Scotia Federal Council. Addressing an audience of federal, provincial, and municipal decision makers in downtown Halifax on 8 March 2013, Dr. MacDonald spoke about the Information to Policy […]
EIUI Gives Presentation to Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment Working Group
Bertrum MacDonald and Peter Wells gave a presentation about the Environmental Information: Use and Influence research initiative to the Working Group of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment, which met in Halifax on 5 March 2013. The presentation outlined the recent history of the EIUI initiative and, in particular, research undertaken collaboratively […]
Expert Panel Working on 40 Priority Research Questions for Ocean Science in Canada
February 12-13, the Expert Panel on Canadian Ocean Science held its third meeting, at which it discussed a draft report on 40 Priority Research Questions for Ocean Science in Canada. Recognizing that the world’s oceans are undergoing unprecedented changes, this initiative is examining Canada’s needs and capacities with regard to the major research questions in […]
Characteristics of the Science-Policy Interface
No examination of the role of information in public policy development is complete without a discussion of the science-policy interface. This post will outline defining characteristics of the interface, and issues and difficulties surrounding its functionality. First, what is meant by the science-policy interface? Essentially, this term refers to the interplay between scientific research and […]