Welcome to The Rural Research Centre! The Rural Research Centre, or RRC as we like to call it, is a small research institute focused on rural research and making connections between research and the people who shape rural life.

With a diverse research agenda rooted in the humanities and social sciences, the RRC conducts or facilitates rurally-focused research and outreach in a number of areas, including agrarian movements, decisionmaking behaviour, disaster resilience, health knowledge and 'home remedies,' re-localisation, women's health, volunteerism, rural, working-class masculinity, and wool value chain development. We also conduct multi-disciplinary research in partnership with rural organizations and other researchers, and encourage the integration of humanities and social science perspectives into research based in the agricultural, environmental and engineering sciences. The RRC supports and engages in a variety of endeavours and activities rooted in 'the rural' - whether that rural reality is in Atlantic Canada, or elsewhere in the world, although our mandate is to serve the rural community of Atlantic Canada, first and foremost.

Our central research programme, Changing Paradigms, funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, is examining the changing (local to global) state of Atlantic agriculture.

Click here for an overview of the Changing Paradigms research initiative.

Click here for a copy of the Terms of Reference for the Rural Research Centre.