Past Events

Community engaged teaching and learning (CETL) offers a wide range of creative and engaging possibilities for assessing and documenting student learning and driving progress toward achieving meaningful community priorities. These possibilities are exciting but can also illuminate complexities among institutional and community goals for learning, engagement processes, and outputs.

Evaluating KTT Activities 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. Speaker: Anne Bergen, Knowledge to Action Consulting By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

The first session of the CETL & Critical Pedagogy Learning Circle will feature a presentation from Samantha Blostein, a staff member and former course instructor who will discuss her approaches to course-based community partnerships which facilitate meaningful learning for students while enacting social change from a justice lens. We will begin with a facilitated conversation with Samantha who will highlight various dimensions of CETL partnerships created through a 3rd-year International Development course entitled "Engaging in Development Practice".

This brief workshop will introduce participants to the practice of Digital Storytelling for research communication. Our experienced facilitators will take a deep dive into the components, elements, and benefits of Digital Storytelling, and will also lead activities to demonstrate the application of these principles. This introductory workshop will prompt participants to begin conceptualizing an idea for communicating their own research through Digital Storytelling methods.

Are you a graduate student or early career researcher in the humanities and social sciences?

How do you share your research with non-academic audiences? Learn about a number of potential mechanisms you can use for knowledge mobilization, discover how to choose a mechanism that’s appropriate for your audience, and take a deep dive into several popular mechanisms for dissemination, including social media, research summaries, infographics, and media.  Speaker: Elizabeth Shantz, Knowledge Mobilization Manager, Research Innovation Office By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Come and get to know your local KMb community. We’re excited to see you and welcome new and returning members.  We will also be celebrating our renaming to “Waterloo Wellington KMb Community”! We are planning to meet on Zoom. This lunchtime session is focused on networking and online facilitation. We’ll be sharing - and practicing - tips and tricks for creating awesome online meetups.   We will also have an opportunity for you all to come with activities we could try out. So dust off your favorite facilitation tools cause we want to learn about them!

Hone your clear communications skills! Get tips on how to structure and write clear language summaries of your research for dissemination to lay audiences. Speaker: Kim Garwood, Research and Editorial Specialist, Stiletto Consulting By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

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. Speaker: Caroline Duvieusart-Dery, Community Engaged Scholarship Institute By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

One of the many challenges of CETL is ensuring rigour while training students in both applying research methods and the principles of CES. Hosted by Jeji Varghese, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Guelph, this workshop will outline both qualitative research design and pedagogical strategies tried over the years, mainly in teaching a large 12-week long qualitative methods course where students conduct research addressing community-identified priorities in collaborative research teams.