The Guelph Lab at CESI is hiring two graduate students for projects this winter:
Hungry for Knowledge - Student Food Insecurity Project: the student hired for this position will analyze 2019 survey data on food insecurity amongst university students.
A new report produced through a Community Engaged Teaching and Learning partnership is drawing attention to an often-overlooked form of intimate partner violence: financial abuse. The report, titled “Hidden in the Everyday,” is the result of collaboration between CESI, the Woman Abuse Council of Toronto, and psychology students Sonia Zawitkowski, Emma Currie, and Brianna Wilson under the supervision of Dr.
One year after presenting a plan to evaluate the Targeted Walk-In Service (TWIS) program at the Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington, the Research Shop was invited back last week to present the final results. The project began in a Program Evaluation course supported by CESI's CETL program, where students worked to create an evaluation plan for the TWIS.
The Research Shop at CESI was recently featured as a case study on SciShops.Eu, a website that aims to exemplify how science shops can help civil society and organizations address complex challenges by conducting participatory research that responds to community needs. SciShops provides information on what science shops are, how to establish one, and how communities can access and benefit from science shops’ work.
It’s election day in Canada! Over the past weeks, we have been exposed to a lot of negative campaigning and adverse discussion between political parties. You may be happy to hear that a Guelph-based movement, the Better Ballot Campaign (BBC), is working hard to engage Canadians in a more productive conversation that focuses on the political issues instead of on personal attacks by politicians. Launched in 2018, the BBC was formed to encourage diverse voices in politics. The campaign is committed to foster civil discussion and respectful debate of political issues.
CESI’s Community Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) program supports many undergraduate and graduate courses-based partnerships each semester involving hundreds of students and several community partners. These courses provide meaningful collaboration opportunities for all involved, and high impact educational experiences for students in learning basic and advanced theory, principles, and practices of critical community engaged scholarship.
For 10 years, the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute’s (CESI) Research Shop has trained graduate student researchers to work with community organizations, supporting them to design and implement research that addresses community-identified priorities. We are so excited to invite you to join us as we mark this milestone with a workshop and symposium to reflect on our impacts and practices and share our learning over the last 10 years – please follow the links below for more information:
The workshop will be held on Thursday, November 7th.
This year marks an important milestone for the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI), as our oldest program is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The Research Shop is one of five programs through which CESI fulfills its mandate to bring together community and campus skills and resources in order to advance community-identified research goals. CESI works to enable deep collaboration with community groups, honour diverse forms and locations of knowledge, and support meaningful collaborations that increase our shared capacity to create high-impact research.
Sometimes local work gains global attention: this was the case last week when CESI’s Research Shop was invited to present the findings of a local project at the International Public Health Forum on Cannabis. The forum, organized by Quebec’s Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, aimed to share knowledge and best practices related to preventing harm from cannabis use. The forum gathered experts from universities as well as health promotion and policy organizations from across the world.
