Examining social innovation engagement models to promote social cohesion and equity via climate action

This project looks at the drivers, impact and actor-groups that lead to successful Social Innovations.
Social Innovation has prominence in both the public and private sectors, as a way to reform societal relations and create system level change, in the structure of relationships with the goal of empowering community actors to lead the development of solutions to challenges impacting them.
There is a general consensus that SI has positive results; however, there are questions in academia around whether SI actually results in improvements.
The work of Inspiring Communities will be observed and analysed to deeply understand the organization’s social innovation approach and reveal the impact of processes on systems level change. Insight into how social cohesion impacts the effectiveness of initiatives will inform a case study on how a rallying point such as climate action can be used to engage communities and sustain resident participation in interventions in novel ways

Faculty Supervisor:

Chantal Hervieux

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Partner:

Inspiring Communities

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Saint Mary's University

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