Research Interests:

Professor Lauranne L. Sanderson

Department Head, Business and Social Sciences

Associate Professor, Humanities

The Rural Research Centre, Or RRC, is involved in a variety of research and outreach activities. A reflection of the diversity of both rurality and the research interests of its team, the RRC's research projects have included work on such contemporary issues as sustainable forest management and rural teen sexuality. Current research initiatives include the following:
Women’s Health in Rural Communities (WHIRC)

Rural Safety
Community Change and Resilience
Nutrition and Dietary Decision Behaviour

The Lives of Rural Girls and Women (HUGS)

Rural Women and Volunteerism: A Comparative Study of West Virginia's CEOS and Nova Scotia's Women's Institutes
Home-Based Health Knowledge (HoBaHeK): Rural Women's Use of Home and Herbal Remedies

Poet, Peddler, Workingman: Martin Butler and Rural, Working-Class Masculinity, 1857-1915

Sustainable Agriculture in a Globalizing Era (SAGE

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