Master's opportunity in HNS for September 2013.
Seeking Full-Time Human Nutritional Sciences Master’s Student Beginning September 2013 Evaluation of a Community-Based Food and Nutrition Program “Our Food Our Health Our Culture” (OFHC) is a Public Health Agency of Canada-funded community-based project seeking to prevent obesity, and improve nutrition and food security in vulnerable populations. OFHC is a collaborative project between multiple partners including Food Matters Manitoba, the North End Food Security Network, and the University of Manitoba. Part of the overall project involves providing food and nutrition training for staff in community-based programs (in Winnipeg) directed at children and families, which serve food or provide emergency food programs. The Master’s project will involve conducting a participatory evaluation of the food and nutrition training initiative.
The successful student must be interested in community nutrition, participatory community-based research, and quantitative and qualitative methodologies. S/he will be expected to work with the project team to identify the most appropriate evaluation strategies for this project. The successful student must also travel to a variety of community-based organizations in Winnipeg’s North End to conduct assessments, collect evaluation research data, and participate in knowledge translation activities.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please write a one-page letter of intent outlining why you are interested; what knowledge, skills and other assets you bring to the project; and what you hope to learn from the project. Please submit this letter, along with a transcript (if you are from U of M you can submit an advisor or web transcript) and resume in hard copy if possible, by February 28th, 2013 to:
Dr. Joyce Slater
Department of Human Nutritional Sciences
General Office
Faculty of Human Ecology
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
joyce.slater@ad.umanitoba.ca
For program information or for applications, please contact the Graduate Program Assistant for assistance 204-474-9606 or email.