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Patricia Williams
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Latest papers
Exploring Food and Nutrition Programming for People Living With HIV/AIDS: Interviews With Service Providers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Health promotion practice · 2024
The Cost of a Nutritious Diet for Households Including People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nova Scotia: Findings and Lessons Learned by FoodNOW 2020 to 2022.
Canadian journal of dietetic practice and research : a publication of Dietitians of Canada = Revue canadienne de la pratique et de la recherche en dietetique : une publication des Dietetistes du Canada · 2023
Exploring current nutritional programming and resources available to people living with HIV/AIDs in Canada: a scoping review protocol.
JBI evidence synthesis · 2022
Latest funding
- $76,784
Dismantling stigma: exploring experiences of and views on food insecurity, social exclusion, and shame among women through participatory action research
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $49,000
Looking back to move ahead: knowledge mobilization and intersectoral exchange to advance food security in Nova Scotia
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
- $3,000
Healthy Spryfield/Pictou County: What role does food play?
CIHR · 2013 · Nominated PI
3 publications.
Exploring Food and Nutrition Programming for People Living With HIV/AIDS: Interviews With Service Providers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Clarke A, Tesfatsion W, Mannette J, Hamilton-Hinch BA, Williams P, Grant S, Joy P
The Cost of a Nutritious Diet for Households Including People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nova Scotia: Findings and Lessons Learned by FoodNOW 2020 to 2022.
Clarke A, Mannette J, Hamilton-Hinch B, Lynch M, Williams P, Grant S, Joy P
Exploring current nutritional programming and resources available to people living with HIV/AIDs in Canada: a scoping review protocol.
Mannette J, Zhang Y, Rothfus M, Purdy C, Tesfatsion W, Lynch M, Hamilton-Hinch B, Williams P, Joy P, Grant S
Dismantling stigma: exploring experiences of and views on food insecurity, social exclusion, and shame among women through participatory action research
Principal investigators: Williams, Patricia L.
Keywords: household food insecurity; stigma; shame; participatory research; policy; worldviews; qualitative research; poverty; charitable food programs; attribution; neoliberalism; health equity; cooking as inquiry; empathy; transformative learning
Looking back to move ahead: knowledge mobilization and intersectoral exchange to advance food security in Nova Scotia
Principal investigators: Williams, Patricia L.
Keywords: food sovereignty; food security; participatory action research; community-engaged research; community capacity building; knowledge mobilization; indigenous food sovereignty; co-learning (two-eyed seeing); policy change
Healthy Spryfield/Pictou County: What role does food play?
Principal investigators: Williams, Patricia L
Keywords: Community; Food Policy; Food Security; Health; Health Disparities; Nova Scotia; Participatory Research; Social Policy; Systems Change
Community first: impacts of community engagement CF:ICE
Keywords: community; impacts; partnerships; service learning; poverty reduction; food security; sustainability; violence against women
Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Policy Change
Principal investigators: Williams, Patricia
Keywords: food security; knowledge mobilization; participatory action research; policy change; food security policy analysis
The Participatory Action Research and Training Centre on Food Security
Principal investigators: Williams, Patricia L
Keywords: Food Security
Understanding scale and networks in social mobilization: a case study of the community food security movement in Canada
Principal investigators: Wakefield, Sarah E.L.
Keywords: food security; sustainable food systems; social justice; organizational networks; scale; collaborative inquiry
Capturing the outcomes and impacts of publicly funded research
Principal investigators: Koc, Mustafa
Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Policy Change
Principal investigators: Williams, Patricia
Keywords: food security/food insecurity, health promotion, human nutrition, dietetics, policy change, capacity building, participatory action research, food costing, community health, population health
The social economy and sustainability: innovations in bridging, bonding, and capacity building
Keywords: social economy; social policy; mobilization; food security; communication; community management of natural resources; governance; action research; mapping; curriculum development; social accounting and auditing
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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