Collaborating to reimagine access to
sport, recreation and leisure
This project aims to reimagine access to sport, recreation, and leisure in rural and smaller centres in New Brunswick.
Residents are experiencing economic and social disadvantages that are impacting access to sport, recreation and leisure. Equity deserving groups are increasingly ignored or excluded from important aspects of community life and resources including physical, social, and emotional wellbeing associated with sport, recreation, and leisure.
Who
Throughout this project we* will include, connect, and collaborate with New Brunswick residents experiencing barriers to sport, recreation and leisure, and work in partnership with existing community resources, organization stakeholders (e.g., schools, libraries, family resource centres, health, cultural centres, food banks, etc.), poverty reduction programs, and sport, recreation and leisure providers to identify barriers and create supportive access to sport, recreation and leisure.
*This project is being carried out by Researchers at the University of New Brunswick and Designers at All In, and funded by the Economic and Social Inclusion Corporation and the Department of Tourism, Heritage, and Culture from the Government of New Brunswick.
How
Using human-centred design and community based participatory research we will work with New Brunswick residents and community stakeholders to understand, define, explore, create, deliver, and evaluate access provisions for sport, recreation and leisure. This includes working with and compensating people with lived and living experience throughout all stages of the project.
Meet the Team
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Jackie Oncescu
Lead Researcher
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Julia Frigault
Project Coordinator
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Daneka Headley
Research Assistant
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Jules Maitland
Design Lead
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Madeleine Whalen
Design Researcher
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Courtney Ivey
Visual Designer
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Amanda Hachey
Facilitator
If you would like to learn more about this project or if you would like to get involved, please contact the project coordinator, Julia Frigault (julia.frigault@unb.ca), or lead researcher, Jackie Oncescu (jackie.oncescu@unb.ca).
This work is carried out on the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Peskotomuhkati peoples. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which these nations first signed with the British Crown in 1726. The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources, but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
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