SSHRC to Present Imagining Canada's Future: Six Future Challenge Areas - CIGI (Waterloo) on November 6, 2013, from 8:00 am to 9:30 am

[Sherilee Diebold-Cooze]

SSHRC to Present the Imagining Canada's Future: Six Future Challenge Areas

For Canada to be a successful 21st-century society we need to anticipate the challenges ahead and keep our minds open to the potential futures facing us all. This is the inspiration behind SSHRC's Imagining Canada's Future initiative.

Over the past two years, SSHRC conducted a cross-Canada and international consultation process, during which the Council reached out to more than 13,000 subject matter experts, members of the academic research community, and public and private sector leaders, to seek their insight. The goal was to identify future challenge areas for Canada in an evolving global context that are likely to emerge in five, 10 and 20 years and to which the social sciences and humanities research community could contribute its knowledge, talent and expertise.

The result was the selection of SSHRC's six future challenge areas. They represent lenses through which SSHRC-in collaboration with the Canadian social sciences and humanities research community-feels it can and should make a difference in the coming years. For more information, please see the video<http://youtu.be/b-hE1p7nlW0> and Imagining Canada's Future<http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/society-societe/community-communite/Imagining_Canadas_Future-Imaginer_l_avenir_du_Canada-eng.aspx> webpage.

SSHRC will present the six future challenge areas at a panel discussion on Wednesday, November 6, at CIGI, co-hosted by David Dewitt, Vice-President of Programs, CIGI, and Fred Kuntz, Vice-President of Public Affairs, CIGI. The following presentations will be included, followed by engagement with the audience on how SSHRC can best encourage and support work in these six areas:

John Baker, CEO, Desire2Learn and a SSHRC Council member

Abby Goodrum, Vice-President Research, Wilfrid Laurier University, and a SSHRC Leader

Steve Wilcox, a SSHRC Final Five Storyteller winner, University of Waterloo

Brent Herbert-Copley, SSHRC Vice-President Research Capacity

The event is open to the public and we invite you to forward this message to your colleagues and students, as well as to your multisectoral contacts. Coffee and muffins will be provided.

To register for this event, please click here<http://www.cigionline.org/events/imagining-canadas-future-sshrc-present-its-six-future-challenge-areas>.

For further information, please contact:
Thérèse de Groote
Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Vice-President, Research
ifca-sica at sshrc-crsh.gc.ca<mailto:ifca-sica at sshrc-crsh.gc.ca>

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