Challenge question

  • What are the strategies and best practices that municipalities can use for engaging a wide range of citizens in issues of planning and decision-making, with a focus on the inclusion of marginalized and low-income households?

Educational partners

Course

  • Advanced Methods in Qualitative Research

Instructor

  • Dr. Tyler Frederick

City branch

  • Innovation and Transformation

Student Solutions

  • Criminology Graduate students interviewed key vulnerable sector stakeholders along with in depth secondary research to provide a final report of recommendations highlighting some of the main barriers of engaging marginalized communities in the City of Oshawa.

  • Key themes of trust, critical consciousness, organizational access, capacity building, comfortability, accessibility, youth engagement, representation, and education were explored.

  • Recommendations to engage marginalized groups included participatory budgeting, meeting people where they are at, and art festivals as community building initiatives.