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At CESI, we believe that community engaged scholarship (CES) has the potential to offer high impact to both community partners and researchers and to spark positive, evidence-informed change within the community. CES is a “collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity" (Jordan, 2007).

Are you looking for support launching a social enterprise idea? Would you like to work with graduate students from the University of Guelph? The Sandbox, a collaboration between the John F. Wood Centre and the Guelph Lab, is currently recruiting community partners for its 2022-2023 iteration. 

CESI’s director, Elizabeth Jackson was recently featured on the Below the Radar Podcast, an innovative podcast with the goal of “amplifying ideas that fly below the radar”.

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

Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion in Local Politics Research Assistant

Through their experiences working with CESI and the Research Shop, many students have the opportunity to learn more about knowledge mobilization, which is an integral element of critical community engaged research. Knowledge mobilization plays a key role in allowing the exchange of information and knowledge from the academic community to a wider audience.

CESI is offering a bursary covering the cost of one course in the Certificate in Knowledge Mobilization for three graduate students or postdocs at the University of Guelph.

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

Equity in Local Policy Research Assistant

Join our team! The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) is hiring four graduate students for the following positions: 

CIRCLE-CESI Research Assistant

• Supporting a study aiming to improve health access for international students, with a specific focus on qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

Research Shop Assistant [General]

Throughout March and April, CESI and Feeding 9 Billion's social media will be partially taken over to promote the #BiteBack Campaign. This initiative aims to promote education and awareness on the issue of food insecurity which is a significant problem facing many university students.

This blog post was written by student researchers from the Research Shop. Below, they reflect on managing their own care while working on projects with potentially sensitive and intense subject matter. Their work on this project and reflections throughout fact have expanded our understanding and practices of care in the research context at CESI. We will build on this work as we move forward and actively work to create a workplace culture that is humane, accessible, and enabling for all.