Ashleigh Weeden is a Ph.D. student in the Rural Studies program in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph. Her doctoral research is finding ways to help rural Canada keep up in a future innovative digital economy.
Watch a short video clip about Ashleigh here [1], produced by the Office of Graduate Studies.
The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) brings together major academic fields concerned with creating strong communities, in Canada and around the world. The four highly respected programs in SEDRD share many common goals but approach them in different and complementary ways. This model reflects the imperatives in building authentic communities where planners, landscape architects, communicators, and citizens all play important interdependent roles in community strength.