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The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) is hiring 5 students to join our team. CESI is a research and teaching support unit in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences working in collaboration with community organizations to address community research needs. Our work enables community-university collaborations that positively impact our partners and the wider community.  

The following positions are available:  

The Guelph Lab, one of CESI's 5 program areas, is calling for applications from University of Guelph graduate students with excellent skills in reviewing and summarizing research. There are three positions available. 

If you walk down Carden Street in Downtown Guelph this month you may notice something new in the 10C window! 10C may be temporarily closed, but we've moved the gallery space to the front window to share some select works from Aftershock.

In August of 2020, CESI offered a Critical Community Engaged Scholarship Summer Intensive in collaboration with the Conservation for Reconciliation Partnership  and Coastal Routes.

The Guelph Lab is calling for applications from University of Guelph graduate students with excellent qualitative research and project management skills. In this position you will be undertaking a range of research activities working directly with community partners across a number of projects that aim to build civic literacy and improve democratic processes in Guelph.

Dr. Leah Levac, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and CESI Faculty Advisory Board (FAB) member, has just released a new co-edited collection, Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy.

In September of 2019, the Research Shop partnered with Community Living Guelph Wellington to assess the impact of their Campus Friends (CF) program. Following a mentorship-style format, CF connects University of Guelph student volunteers (mentors) with adults who have a developmental disability (students), providing them with an opportunity to experience campus life.

Congratulations to Samantha Blostein, CESI/GIDS Global Engagement Specialist, who has been awarded the 2019-2020 College of Social and Applied Human Sciences Teaching and Learning Excellence Award for Sessional Faculty!

We are pleased to share that CESI by the Numbers: Key Metrics 2019-2020 has been released and is now available! This document captures and highlights CESI's key impacts from May 2019 - April 2020. It is a summary of a larger, internal report on CESI's activities and impacts; the numbers presented were identified as being of particular interest by the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences. The metrics are separated into three categories: capacity development, partnerships, and research projects.