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The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) is hiring two students to join our team. CESI is a research and teaching support unit in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences bringing together campus and community skills and resources to address community research priorities. Our work enables community-university collaborations that positively impact our partners and the wider community.  

The following positions are available for 2021-2022:  

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the inevitable changes it will bring to how instructors want to teach, how students want to learn, and what society expects a university education to look like, University of Guelph Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Gwen Chapman created the Provost's Task Force on Pedagogical Innovation.

Applications are now open for The Sandbox, a graduate-level experiential learning opportunity created collaboratively by the Guelph Lab and the John F. Wood Centre.

Two students participating in a Community Engaged Teaching and Learning project this year have earned the Esri Canada GIS Scholarship for their work at the Chalmers Community Services Centre during Dr. Ben DeVries' course GEOG 4480: Applied Geomatics, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics. 

The CESI team is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) bursary, which is funding the participation of three U of G graduate students/post-doctoral fellows in all three courses of the 2021-2022 offering of the University of Guelph's Certificate in Knowledge Mobilization. The Cerficiate is an online professional development opportunity targeted at professionals from the academic, policy and service delivery sectors.

In the Winter semester of 2020, fourth-year International Development student Emily Kerr took part in the experiential learning course, IDEV*3300: Engaging in Development Practice. The course is a prerequisite for students in International Development and aims to help them gain workplace skills that will be useful in the development sector. This blog post offers an inside look into Emily’s experiences during the course and her reflections on what the course did for her personally, academically and professionally.

Are you a Guelph-Wellington resident over the age of 18 with an interest in food? The Research Shop, along with Our Food Future Guelph-Wellington is holding virtual focus groups AND online discussion board focus groups from July 12 - July 16 to explore community perspectives on increasing access to nutritious foods. An additional online discussion board will also be taking place from July 26 - July 28. This research will help to identify facilitators and barriers to acquiring, selecting, purchasing, preparing, and consuming nutritious foods.

Starting July 6th and running all through the month, the Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo-Wellington's Youth Talk program will be featuring student work produced with support from CESI's Community Engaged Teaching and Learning program.

Registration is now open for the CESI Summer Intensive in Critical Community Engaged Scholarship! This week-long training and knowledge exchange is an excellent opportunity for researchers aiming to expand their knowledge and skills in critical community engaged scholarship (CCES) and integrated knowledge mobilization (KMb).

The Guelph Lab and the John F Wood Centre for Business and Student Entrepreneurship are inviting proposals from experienced social entrepreneurs with a passion for mentoring and coaching. The successful vendor will lead development of the Sandbox, as well as deliver the program in Fall 2021.