Get Involved
There are many ways to get involved with Northern Policy Institute or to influence policy issues that affect you and your community. Explore the links below to discover how to get involved:
Write for Us
We are seeking authors and project researchers to help us explore all areas of our research priorities. Why not propose to write a research paper for Northern Policy Institute or submit existing work?
Share your Knowledge
Northern Policy Institute is looking for regularly collected data sets that can support our research work. We are also seeking readers and experts in all policy areas that we can contact for help on key issues.
Volunteer
We need individuals who are willing to devote their time and expertise to directing the research priorities of our organization. If you identify as someone who is passionate about Northern Ontario and our key areas of focus, we would like to hear from you.
Join the Conversations
Northern Policy Institute wants to build a community of people who are ready and willing to share their opinions on Northern Ontario issues. Have your voice heard by joining our conversations in and about the north.
Stay Connected
Keep in touch with Northern Policy Institute with the online tools and social media you use every day.
Point - Counter-point
While our staff, volunteers, stakeholders and partners are barred from influencing our authors, they are also free to disagree with them. Northern Policy Institute exists to promote informed, respectful, evidence-based debate about policy solutions for and from Northern Ontario. We have a standing open invitation to those who disagree with a paper or report to submit a counter argument, based on evidence, for consideration for publication. But the terms are the same for the counter-point as they were for the “point:” it has to pass through our double-blind peer review and be accepted by the readers for publication.
Share Data and Measurement
As with research and analysis, there are any number of organizations collecting, producing or using measures of economic, social and environmental sustainability or growth in Northern Ontario. We invite those in need of particular data to contact us so that we can ask the experts known to us if the data exists already or whether it can be collected going forward. We similarly invite those who collect or have data about Northern Ontario to let us know what they have and we invite them to allow us to share it with others in or interested in the north. We make this invitation to anyone doing direct measurement, primary interviewing (polls and surveys) or secondary (targeted or drill down) analysis of larger data sets.
Partner
While we are not a consulting firm for hire, NPI is always open to partnering on pure or applied research projects. Partners can contribute in cash, or in kind. Many organizations, for example, have access to data only they can collect. We are happy to work with them to provide the skill and experience to analyse that data. We have only two conditions: the authors are free to reach whatever conclusion the evidence leads to, even if those findings run contrary to the interest of the partner organization; and, the research, once completed, must be made public.
Where privacy concerns are an issue, public reports will only include data that cannot be attributed to individuals. In this way NPI can secure information about communities that can help inform the public and decision makers, while partners can secure valuable internal administrative and client level analysis that can privately be used to enhance service delivery.