Partners for the 2005 Internships meet
to begin project planning - Eastern Passage, NS

RCIP Student Interns were placed with community sponsors during the summer months (May-Aug) to work on community policy change research projects.

With the completion of the RCIP Project, the RCIP Research Internship Program is now over. For a summary of how the Intern Program worked, see Appendix 2 of the Guidebook for Collaborative Research Internships.

Looking for an intern? If you are looking for a research intern to help with your community project, please visit the Rural InternNet (a webpage of other student internship-type programs in Nova Scotia)

2005 Research Internships & Policy Change Projects

• Community Development (Joy Elliott)
• Coastal Area Management (Corey Towes)
• Retention of Health Professionals (Amelie Lombard)
• Health Policy Internship (Lisa Jensen)

2005 RCIP Student Intern Program - At A Glance

Partner Day - Setting the Stage April 13th, 2005 Fisherman's Cove, Eastern Passage At this meeting, interested community, academic and government partners gathered to begin creating the policy change research projects that the interns will be working on this summer. Partner Day Agenda

Intern Training Week - Getting Started April 25-29, 2005 Hubbards, NS During their first week "on the job", the interns got an orientation to using research for policy change, the RCIP Project and their specific policy change research projects. On the Friday of the week (April29), interested project partners built on the work from April 13th and joined the interns to continue creating the details of their research projects. In 2005 , RCIP interns focused on: Healthy and Sustainable Community Development Retention of Health Professionals Coastal Zone Management Training Week Agenda Training Week Invitation for non-RCIP students Trainer Bios Directions to the Dauphinee Inn, Hubbards, NS

Mid-Point Meeting - Checking In July 6th, 2005 Truro, NS Although the interns were in regular contact with project partners, this day was a chance for interns and project partners to formally check in with one another to see how thing were going.

Final Meeting - Goodbye and What Next August 16th, 2005 Windsor, NS Like the title says, this meeting was for the interns and project partners to say goodbye, talk about what worked and what needed improvement, and to make sure that the research results were being shared as part of a larger policy change strategy.

• Overall Training Program Timeline (April-August)

• Guidebook For Collaborative Research Internships - Fourth Edition

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Highlights - 2004 Student Internship Program

• 2004 Internships & Policy Change Projects:
  • Community Development (Joanne Weiss Reid)
  • Harbours and Wharves (Erica de Sousa)
  • Rural Health (Brad Osmond)

• Intern Orientation Week Pictures - April 26-30, 2004

• Intern Midpoint Meeting Pictures - July 9th, 2004

• 2004: Erica's Summer Tour; Brad's Summer Tour; Joanne's Summer Tour

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Click here for a complete listing of RCIP Student Intern Reports from all years of the RCIP Project.