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 Volume 3, Issue 2 

May 2013
In This Issue
Research Awardee
Visiting Researcher
Deliberation Update
ABCD Working Paper Series
The Roger S. Smith Undergraduate Research Award  

Rumbi

Rumbidzai Zinyemba, a senior undergraduate in the Department of Political Science, has been awarded a $5000 University of Alberta, Faculty of Arts

award that will allow her to conduct research over the summer.  

 

Rumbi will investigate the Edmonton Citizens' Panel and how marginalized groups and power relations were handled in the recruitment stage and throughout the deliberation by talking interviewing ABCD members who were involved in the process.  

 

Rumbi plans to contribute a working paper and present her findings at conferences later this year.

Visiting Researcher from Spain
Barbara

 

Barbara Esteves Ribeiro, from the Instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Ciencia y la Tecnolog�a (IECyT) in Spain, joined ABCD for the month of April.  

 

Barbara's interest in public deliberation and how it relates to politics and science brought her to Edmonton to examine the Citizens' Panel process. Barbara met with ABCD researchers and practitioners to get a better understanding of the methods used and their impact.  

 

Barbara attended the City Council's Executive Committee meeting on April 15th to see Panelists present their Final Report.  

Read more about Barbara's experience in a report she prepared during her visit. 

 

Barbara's Report (PDF) 

2013 CPSA Conference
CPSA round From June 4 - 6, in Victoria BC, many ABCD members will participate in the Canadian Political Science Association 2013 Annual Conference.

The conference is part of Congress 2013, organized by the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada.


Hope to see you there!
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Dear members and colleagues,

ABCD is in its fourth year of engaging the public on the issue of climate change in Alberta. In fall 2012 our team partnered to convene the Citizens' Panel on Edmonton's Energy and Climate Challenges. Read an update on the process below.

 

This issue also includes the introduction of an ABCD Working Paper Series, insights from a visiting researcher from Spain, and a new undergraduate summer research.

 

Thank you for your ongoing interest in ABCD! 


DELIBERATION UPDATE: Citizens' Panel on Edmonton's Energy and Climate Challenges
 
The Citizen's Panel Final Report was presented to the Executive Committee of City Council on April 15th, 2013. A full room of supporters and reporters were present to hear the Panel's recommendations and Councillors' reactions. A media event followed with Panel members responding to reporter's questions.

University of Alberta Centre for Public Involvement - Environment Announcement - CTV Edmonton
Panelists answer reporter questions, April 15th, 2013 

 

April Research Workshop

On April 25th ABCD researchers met, in person and by video conference, to share their plans for research resulting from the Citizens' Panel and to hear feedback from others. 


Keeping track of the process

ABCD will continue to document learning from this process and all of our efforts, from how we work together as a diverse group of researchers and practitioners to how to collaborate with municipal governments. This 'developmental evaluation' is an important aspect of ABCD overall mandate.

What's Next?
City Administration and the Edmonton Deliberation Core Team (David Kahane, ABCD; Fiona Cavanagh, CPI; Jacquie Dale, One World; and Mary Pat MacKinnon, Assentum) will continue to meet to discuss methods for keeping Panelists engaged and the City accountable as the Panel's recommendations inform energy and transition planning in Edmonton.

Visit ABCD's website for the whole story of the Citizens' Panel including recent media coverage.   
ABCD Working Paper Series

ABCD will support member of our team by publishing a series of working papers. This is an opportunity for ABCD members to share grey literature, preprints, and other products of interest to our researcher and practitioner communities.

 

Gwendolyn Blue and Laurie Adkin, both ABCD researchers, have agreed to edit the ABCD Working Paper Series. Gwen and Laurie will arrange for peer review and provide feedback to authors prior to papers being available on our website.

 

Read the first paper in the series:

Stakeholder and Citizen Roles in Public Deliberation 

 

ABCD members teamed up with KULE funded researchers and Australia-based experts to explore stakeholder groups and individual citizen roles in public deliberation. A workshop hosted at UofA (with video conferencing to bring in Australian participants) took place last year and resulted in a paper by David Kahane, Kristjana Loptson, Jade Herriman, and Max Hardy, currently under review by a key journal in the field.
  
FINAL SC WP M13

 

Download the PDF version 

 

 

Thank you. We hope you enjoyed this issue.    

Remember, if you have an event, announcement, or resource you would like to share in an upcoming e-newsletter, send the details to us at: [email protected]

David Kahane & Sue Cole
ABCD Executive Committee

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