Past Events

Hone your clear communications skills with Kim Garwood (Writing Services, McLaughlin Library) in the third session of the Skills for Research Impact workshop series! Get tips on how to structure and write clear language summaries of your research for dissemination to lay audiences. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Last June Environmental Defence and the Ontario Public Health Association released the Clearing the Air report analyzing the health impacts of electric vehicles (EVs) and cleaner trucks in Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) and how they can clear the air by reducing pollution. This report shows that air pollution causes more than 3,000 premature deaths every year in the GTHA - and that affects Guelph, too.

Join Lindsey Thomson (Community Engaged Scholarship Institute) for the second installment of the five-part Skills for Research Impact workshop series. Reflect on how to engage your stakeholders throughout your research process to increase your impact, and review engagement best practices for policy, industry and community actors. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

The first session of the Skills for Research Impact workshop series - knowledge mobilization 101! Join Victoria Holla (Office of Research, Agri-Food Partnership) to become familiar with knowledge mobilization plans and conceptualize strategies adapted to your goals and audiences. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

How do you do research that makes a difference?  This free webinar will cover basic principles of community engaged scholarship and knowledge mobilization. It will help you to understand how you can maximize the impact of your research.

This webinar will be hosted by Dr. Tamika Heiden, Founder of Research Impact Academy, Karen Nelson (CESI Research Shop Coordinator), and Dr. Elizabeth Jackson (CESI Director). Karen and Elizabeth will discuss the structure and operation of the Research Shop and what makes it effective as a model of integrated knowledge mobilization.

The knowledge translation (KT) cycle doesn’t end after the production of tools or implementation of strategies. Taking your work a step further with thoughtful evaluation is imperative to ensuring your project has hit its mark . This presentation will discuss how you can use anchors, anvils, and maybe other forms of alliteration, to help you measure the impact of your KT strategies.

Presented by Anne Bergen, PhD, Knowledge to Action Consulting. When all is said and done, how do you know it worked? Go beyond the anecdote and learn to use evaluation techniques to assess the impact of your knowledge mobilization efforts.

In this webinar hosted by Research Impact Canada, CESI’s Karen Nelson and Caroline Duvieusart-Déry will introduce participants to the Research Shop and the features that make it an effective – and recognized – model of integrated knowledge mobilization.

Join the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for their 20th annual Graduate Student Conference. This conference celebrates the diversity and vitality of student research by encouraging students from various social science backgrounds to come together and engage with peers over critical issues and cultural debates.