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The Guelph Lab's work to address student food insecurity has been featured in an article in University Affairs. "Searching for sustainable solutions to food insecurity on campus" highlights the sharp increase in food insecurity on Canadian campuses, especially among international students who must pay much higher tuition rates than domestic students. It points to some of the creative solutions being piloted to address student food insecurity in meaningful ways that go above and beyond the food bank model.

A vast amount of knowledge is created everyday, but is it used effectively? In most cases, only a small fraction of gained knowledge is mobilized to inform real-life situations and help create evidence-informed change. The lack of effective knowledge transfer contributes to a gap between research, policy and practice.

CESI regularly has the privilege of developing relationships with community organizations who are deeply immersed in the communities they serve and are familiar with the issues that impact them most strongly. These partnerships vary in length and depth, and take place across a range of programs and projects at CESI; the common thread linking them is a strong potential for transformational change and the goal of offering benefits for all parties involved, as well as the broader community.

Join our team! The Guelph Lab is hiring one student for the following position: 

Registration is now open for the Skills for Research Impact: Workshop Series in Winter 2023! These monthly sessions are for faculty, research staff and graduate students at the University of Guelph interested in enhancing the impact of their research.

Research Impact Canada Network (RIC) aims to maximize research impact in communities and is offering graduate students an award to recognize their efforts in engaged scholarship, co-creation of knowledge, and knowledge mobilization.

This blog post was written by Emily Mowat, former CESI Accessibility Assistant. Her work on a variety of accessibility projects has contributed to expanding CESI’s understanding and practices around accessibility – especially as they relate to documents and written products. We continue to build on Emily’s work and knowledge as we move forward and work to create and share knowledge, information and events that are accessible for all.

The University of Guelph has named Gabriel Allahdua as its first Activist-in-Residence, a new position based at the Grounded and Engagement Theory Lab (GET Lab) in the College of Arts. The purpose of this role is to strengthen the relationship between researchers and community activists.

Post-doctoral fellowship opportunity for a CESI-supported research project in civic engagement and local government.

An anti-poverty research collaboration between CESI, the Live Work Well Research Centre, and the Guelph and Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination has been featured by The Conversation.