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Human Resources and Social Development
Setting a Research Agenda:
Seven Knowledge Strategies
Demographic shifts & changing needs
1. People with Disabilities
2. Child Development
3. Challenges for Canadian Families
4. Seniors
5. Well-being and Participation over the Life Course
Social interactions and networks:
6. Social and Economic Inclusion
7. Inclusive Communities, the Voluntary Sector and the Social
Economy
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People with Disabilities
Major Questions:
 Inclusion: to what degree do people with disabilities enjoy equal
opportunity in all elements of Canadian society?
 Participation: what works in assuring the voice of people with
disabilities is heard?
 Access/Accessibility: where do barriers to inclusion and participation
remain:
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Child Development
Main Conclusions:
 The development of older children and youth.
 Data required on users of child care, care providers and the quality
of child care.
 The NLSCY: new cohorts of children are required.
 Research methodologies need to be sensitive to cultural differences.
 Major Questions:
 How effective are policies for children’s development over time?
 What is the relationship between families, their communities and
child development?
 Why are there apparent differences in gender development, and in
sub-populations, among older children?
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Challenges for Canadian Families
Main Conclusions:
 Continue to closely monitor the dynamics of family change.
 Expand the examination of families beyond the co-residential unit.
 Multiple research approaches should be used to examine families.
Major Questions:
 What are the values and attitudes of Canadians across various
dimensions of family living?
 What are the major influences impacting the balancing of work and
family across the life course?
 How do family units provide care for each other over the life course?
 What are the factors impacting low fertility in Canada?
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Seniors
Main Conclusions:
 Institutions need to adapt to changing interests, needs and abilities of
seniors, particularly those of the senior subgroups.
 There is a continued need for longitudinal data on senior individuals,
families and communities in order to address the multidisciplinary
knowledge gaps on well-being and participation over the senior life course.
Major Questions:
 What are the capabilities and barriers of different subgroups of seniors to
participation in institutions?
 What is the capacity of institutions to adapt to seniors’ interests, needs and
abilities, particularly those of the senior subgroups?
 How are seniors perceived by non-senior individuals and by institutions?
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Social and Economic Inclusion
Main Conclusions:
 Social inclusion is a valuable concept for understanding the dynamics of
exclusion and the pathways to inclusion.
 We can learn from the approaches developed in other countries and also
from work on systemic racism, ethnicity, citizenship, gender, and on caring.
 There is important work to be done in the areas of data development,
indicators, modeling/experimentation and causal analysis.
Major Questions:
 What are the drivers of social and economic exclusion?
 How does social exclusion affect different population groups ?
 What data, indicators, models and types of analysis would help us to better
understand the dynamics of exclusion and inclusion?
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Inclusive Communities, the Voluntary
Sector and the Social Economy
Main Conclusions:
 There is a need to further engage stakeholders before developing a full
knowledge strategy.
Major Questions:
 What is the state of knowledge on communities and community actors?
What do we know about existing knowledge production and transmission
networks?
 What data do we need in order to get a better profile of communities, the
social economy and the voluntary sector?
 What are the dynamics of relationship and capacity building within
communities? What are the best practices and lessons learned?
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