Community Based Research Laboratory

The Community-based Research Laboratory (CBRL) is a knowledge hub created by Dr. Jutta Gutberlet in 2005 and located in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria. CBRL hosts a group of researchers and students that are committed to participatory oriented and community-based research in Canada and around the world.
Our Vision is to bridge global challenges with local actions, effecting sustainable change through collaborative partnerships with universities, government, civil society, NGOs, business sector, and grassroots initiatives to improve the livelihoods of individuals and communities.
Our Mission is to conduct and engage in participatory action research with community members in order to achieve progressive social, economic and environmentally sustainable and transformative change.

CBRL NETWORK OF RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Our networks are always expanding, spanning multiple disciplines, approaches to community-led and community-grounded research. We are continuously updating as new projects and people contribute and collaborate.

Interactive Map of CBRL Research Projects

**Click on this interactive map** **to discover all the information about every single projects conducted by CBRL team in Canada and abroad.**

Current Projects

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UNICATA

A university with and for waste pickers, where informal workers attend educational and training opportunities, on diverse topics relating to social responsibility, entrepreneurship, waste management, circular economy, and much more, and which promote sustainable livelihoods.

Creative Resources for Community Knowledge Co-Creation

A display showcasing CBRL's work through a Story Map, physical exhibit, and incorporating interactive elements which will be hosted at UVic Libraries, providing a platform for students and the general public to learn about critical topics such as plastic waste, climate change, indigenous knowledge, and diverse SDGs.

Sharing Waste Governance Research

The overall goal of this project is to support knowledge translation and knowledge mobilization of research results obtained through empirical studies conducted by the research consortium, in five countries (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Kenya, Nicaragua, Tanzania)

Mapping Waste Governance Project

This partnership development project seeks to identify, examine and document grassroots social innovations and challenges in waste governance in different geographic regions. We will capture multiple narratives and use interdisciplinary approaches to formal and informal household waste management.

Food Security, Resilience and Adaptation in the Arctic, using Participatory Video

For her PhD in geography, Maeva is using participatory video to engage Inuvialuit youth in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories on global changes affecting them.

Recycling networks

This project aims at examining the challenges that innovative grassroots initiatives and networks encounter and the livelihood practices they generate, to improve recycling and household waste management in informal settlements of global South cities.