Welcome!


Thank you for visiting the Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network website!

 

Led by the Canadian Co-operative Association in partnership with four Canadian universities (St. Mary's University, Mount Saint Vincent University, the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Victoria), the Network is funded for a five-year term by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as a Community-University Research Alliance. The Network is committed to conducting research on the social, economic and environmental impact of co-operatives on Canadians and their communities.

Dr. Lou Hammond Ketilson Spoke for "Big Thinking" Series

 

Dr. Lou Hammond Ketilson spoke for Big Thinking Series on Parliament Hill on December 8: "Building resilient communities: The economic impact of Credit Unions and Caisses Populaires in Canada". Presentation available here. Video of presentation now available!

             

News and Events

 

-Upcoming Special lecture with MILFORD BATEMAN:
MICROFINANCE & THE ILLUSION OF DEVELOPMENT: FROM HUBRIS TO NEMESIS
January 26, 7:00p.m. Saint Mary's University in Halifax, NS Register today!

-New presentation posted: Co-operative Networks and Innovation, S. Novkovic and W. Holm

-Learn more about the research methodology: Co-operative Inquiry (presentation by Peter Hough)


 

Webinars

 

UPCOMING WEBINARS:
Co-operative Accounting and Key Performance Indicators
February 14, 1:00 p.m. Eastern
REGISTER TODAY
Speakers:
-Dr. Daphne Rixon, Elizabeth Hicks

People-Power-Profits: The Emergence of Renewable Energy Co-operatives
in Canada, March 14, 2: 00 p.m. Eastern

REGISTER TODAY
-Judith Lipp, J.J. McMurtry, Wayne Groszko

 

Past webinar materials:

Building a Canada-wide co-operative research network: Our tools, our resources, our plans

Materials and links available here

Details on Bateman and Jain Webinar coming soon (Microfinance vs. Co-operative Finance)

View the Latest Newsletter

 

View the latest edition (Fall/Winter 2011) of the Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network newsletter and find out all about the Network's activities over the fall.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Co-operating for Change: Major Research Conference in 2012

 

The Network will feature a number of completed projects and also initial findings from projects still in progress from June 24-27, 2012 at the University of Quebec in Montreal. with the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation, the ICA Research Committee, The Association for Co-operative Education, the Quebec Co-op CURA and others will be organizing a major integrated co-op research conference series (a Co-op Learneds!) held right before the CCA and CCCM AGMs and joint Congress.

Abstracts due January 24, 2012
Call for proposals

*All network members please contact Erin Hancock, as we are submitting our proposal for all panels as one joint application*

CBC's The Current Podcast on Co-operatives

 

Dame Pauline Green, President of the International Co-operative Alliance was featured on November 4 on CBC's The Current. Listen from your computer or download for your portable device.