The Complexity of Engaging Communities

Introduction: For over 20 years I have pursued community, economic and sustainable development in peripheral regional communities in Atlantic Canada, North Eastern Scotland and most recently in Quebec, a province of Canada.  Each of these regions has gone through some crisis or challenge or has been languishing in the wake of such events.  A multitude […]

On Being a Stranger – feelings of aloneness

Several years ago when I was living and working in Scotland I happened upon an elderly woman, formerly from Newfoundland but by this time a long term resident of Scotland.    An eccentric person she had come to Scotland as a nurse and was, at that particular time, in the midst of writing a thesis in […]