RRN Development Working Groups

Three RRN Working Groups have been created to develop various aspects of the Network:

 

Evaluation Working Group

Wenona Giles, Howard Adelman, Gerald Kernerman, Luay Basil, Paul Ryder, Loren Landau
 
  • Develop an evaluation framework for monitoring and assessing the success of the RRN.
  • One of the first tasks for the evaluation sub-committee is to figure out how people can put forward questions, appreciation, comments, to enable interaction with the network

 

Global Communications Working Group

Evan Leibovitch, Michele Millard, Paula Popovici, Omar Mohammed, Obadiah George, John Pilbeam, Sean Loughna, Gerald Kernerman, Donald Galloway, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi, Rudhramoorthy Cheran, Barry Halliday, Loren Landau
 
  • will focus on the website development (see RRN Website Workplan for proposed timelines)
  • Information Management: researcher profiles, event calendar, technical support for the online resource library, translation, interactivity (blogs, discussion groups), meeting places

 

Knowledge Mobilization Working Group

Susan McGrath, Ranabir Samaddar, Roberto Vidal, Howard Adelman, Jennifer Hyndman, Jeff Crisp, Naila Sabra, Luay Basil, Don Dippo, Marcella Duran, Andrea Kosavic, Adam Taves, François Crepeau, Paul Ryder, John Pilbeam, Sharryn Aiken

 
  • work on the online resource library database(s)
  • address the conceptualization and categorization of refugee research
  • address the barriers to knowledge transfer: language, technical
  • facilitate the engagement of partners to submit research materials including field reports to the library

(see proposed terms of reference for each working group below)