Rural Insights Series on COVID-19

Post date: February 27, 2021

Ryan Gibson is the author of Chapter 11 “Negotiating the cultural context of community care” in Canadian Community as Partner 5e. He is Associate Professor and Libro Professor of Regional Economic Development at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph. Ryan’s primary interest is in rural health and development. He has shared the following with us:

The Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (www.crrf.ca) released a series of publications called the Rural Insights Series on COVID-19. The publications bring attention to the impacts of COVID-19 on rural, small, and northern communities. Ryan was involved with a number of the papers and flagged a few he thought may be of interest to readers of the blog:

• Supporting Rural Recovery and Resilience After COVID-19 (Heather Hall, Ryan Gibson, Sean Markey, and Ashleigh Weeden)

• Identifying COVID-19 Stressors and Sources of Support of Rural Healthcare Workers (Casandra Bryant & Al Lauzon)

• Long-Term Residential Care, COVID-19 and a “Political Culture of Neglect”: Implications for Rural (Al Lauzon)

• Rural Mental Health During COVID-19 (Kathleen Kevany and Andria Jones-Bitton)

• Gender-Based Violence in Rural and Remote Communities–Impacts from COVID-19 (Katie Allen)

The entire list of publications in the Rural Insights Series on COVID-19 can be found at www.crrf.ca/covid19.

Ryan is willing to share more details with anyone interested in these issues; he can be reached at gibsonr@uoguelph.ca