Interested in learning about Community Engagement and how to actively engage your audiences in your research process?
Considering registering for the Skills for Research Impact workshop taking place on Tuesday, October 8th, 2024 and learn from CESI's Manager of Community Engaged Teaching and Learning, Lindsey Thomson. 
Join our team! The Guelph Lab is hiring one student for the following position:
The Guelph Lab is recruiting for a 6-month graduate research assistant position investigating funding models for food prescription programs in Canada.
CESI is excited to promote this opportunity for student's with the People’s Archive of Rural Ontario (PARO).
Join our team! The Research Shop is hiring two graduate students for the following position:
Reporting to the Research Projects Manager at CESI, the Research Shop Assistant will work closely with research leads at Sustainable Livelihoods Canada to support a federally funded “From Crisis to Collaboration: A Systems Change Blueprint for Gender-Based Violence Organizations” project led by Sustainable Livelihoods Canada.
The Guelph Lab, a collaborative partnership between the City of Guelph and the University of Guelph hosted by the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, has been renewed for another three years.
The afternoon of April 17th emerged dark and overcast; the large rain clouds threatening to spill fat rain drops from the skies, which prompted the quick addition of layers from students skittering from building to building as they prepared for finals. Amidst it all stood two lone tents on Johnston Green, piles of sticks stacked up around the space, and four trees standing watch around two stone sculptures, shaped like the trunks of trees, collecting the rainwater as it began to make its release from the sky.
Join our team! The Guelph Lab is hiring one student for the following position:
We are very pleased to share that recent and ongoing CESI projects have been featured in the "Bringing Our Time To Life" series, which highlights how U of G is taking action on its strategic plan.
On Wedneday, April 17th U of G students, staff, faculty and community members gathered for a collaborative stick weaving project to explore placemaking and community building. Led by KW weaver and sculptor Agnes Niewiadomski and Guelph interdisciplinary artist Dawn Matheson, participants were guided through how to weave together natural materials into a sculptural piece of art. All of the materials were gathered from winter pruning at the U of G Arboretum
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.