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SHLC Bulletin - July 2019

SHLC Bulletin - Your update of SHLC publications and events as well as news from the sustainable communities sector...

 

A Canadian initiative that provides free legal services to low-income people has won the Professor Sir David Watson Award for Community University Partnerships

The Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City Inc. (CLASSIC) initiative was founded in 2007 by three law students at the University of Saskatchewan. It is the only community legal clinic in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and serves over 1100 individuals a year – with a commitment to Indigenous people – through three key programmes: a walk-in advocacy clinic, legal advice clinic and special projects that address systemic issues.

Call for Chapter Abstracts - Researchers at Risk: The Precarious Positions of Scholars Conducting Dangerous Enquiries

This proposed edited research book is focused on the phenomenon of researchers at risk – that is, the experiences and perceptions of scholars whose topics of research require them to engage with diverse kinds of dangers, uncertainties or vulnerabilities.

Sometimes this risk derives from working with variously marginalised individuals and groups, or from being members of such groups themselves; at other times, the risk relates to particular economic or environmental conditions and/or political forces influencing the specific research fields in which they operate.

Would you like to work in support of civil society organisations worldwide? Join the INTRAC team.

An exciting opportunity has opened up for the role of Research and Programme Coordinator at INTRAC. The Research and Programme Coordinator has a dual function in supporting INTRAC’s mission to deliver on large civil society support programmes and to ensure rigour in the production and use of evidence in policy and practice.

The Struggle for Control over Identities – Education, History and Local Communities in Scandinavia: Henrik Zipsane

A classic example used in many school books to illustrate how industrialisation changed the way of life in the second half of the 19th century is the need for fixing time on local, national and international level. It was a precondition for knowing when a train would arrive and depart. But another impact of fixing the time according to the clock was that employees knew when to meet and when to leave their workplace and workers and employers alike could measure salary related to work hours.

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