Past Events

The Improve Life Challenge: Hack the Farm is a one-day immersive experience where interdisciplinary student teams work together with community partners to tackle real problems and come up with possible solutions. At the end of the day, teams present their solutions in a pitch-style competition.

Getting your stakeholders into the room is important, but you also need to know what to do with them! Build a checklist of event planning essentials and discuss best practices in group facilitation. This session is offered as part of the ‘Skills for Research Impact’ workshop series. Please register for the session here. Find more information on the workshop series here.

Come learn about open educational practices (OEP) and how they support knowledge mobilization. OEP is premised on the philosophy that teaching and learning processes are most valuable when done publicly and visibly by drawing on open technologies and openly licensed resources. Folks using OEP allow their stakeholders (whether students, community members, or researchers) to contribute their voices to the larger conversation, ultimately fostering more meaningful relationships in the community or classroom.

"In Remembrance of Me" is a mixed media art installation that documents the history of the Guelph Black Heritage Society and the renovation and transformation of Heritage Hall. This art show was curated and produced by University of Guelph students as part of a Community Engaged Teaching and Learning partnership that CESI supported between the Guelph Black Heritage Society and the Faculty of Arts.

Presented by Melanie Parlette-Stewart, McLaughlin Library. In the age of the web 2.0, it can feel essential to incorporate social media in your knowledge mobilization strategy. But how can you do this successfully – and efficiently? In this session, we’ll discuss the benefits and challenges of using social media to promote your work and engage your audiences. We will explore:

The year 2019 marked the 10th anniversary of the Research Shop, one of the five programs through which the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) fulfills its mandate to support and carry out community engaged scholarship. At the Research Shop, staff and graduate students work with local and regional organizations to design and carry out projects that address community research priorities.

As knowledge brokers, we strive to build meaningful relationships among diverse stakeholders/organizations based on trust and rapport. Demonstrating impact by capturing and reporting these “soft” aspects of relationship building and networking can be difficult. Whereas traditional methods rely on narratives, impact stories, or other qualitative methods, Social Network Analysis (SNA) allows for a unique quantitative approach.

Presented by Tanya Qureshi and Marinette Fargo, Computing and Communications Services. Build your own website: explore available platforms and consider website structure, content and budget. Learn about digital accessibility and how to promote your website.

Since 2010, the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance has been supporting research exploring the science of Knowledge Translation and Transfer. Nearly a decade and 88 projects later, the Alliance’s KTT Funding Program has yielded a summary of leading practices and lessons learned about KTT for agri-food and rural research. In this session, we will discuss why and how this manual was developed, how it has been rolled out to and received by the research community, and lessons learned for future KTT capacity building.

Presented by Shannon Brown, Office of Research, Agri-Food Partnership. Go beyond the academic poster: learn all about best practices for designing visual materials that are appealing and bring your messages across. In this workshop you will: