Past Events

Come and get to know your local KMb community. We’re excited to see you and welcome new and returning members.  We will also be celebrating our renaming to “Waterloo Wellington KMb Community”! We are planning to meet on Zoom. This lunchtime session is focused on networking and online facilitation. We’ll be sharing - and practicing - tips and tricks for creating awesome online meetups.   We will also have an opportunity for you all to come with activities we could try out. So dust off your favorite facilitation tools cause we want to learn about them!

Hone your clear communications skills! Get tips on how to structure and write clear language summaries of your research for dissemination to lay audiences. Speaker: Kim Garwood, Research and Editorial Specialist, Stiletto Consulting By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Reflect on how to engage your stakeholders throughout your research process to increase your impact, and review engagement best practices for policy, industry and community actors. Speaker: Caroline Duvieusart-Dery, Community Engaged Scholarship Institute By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

One of the many challenges of CETL is ensuring rigour while training students in both applying research methods and the principles of CES. Hosted by Jeji Varghese, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Guelph, this workshop will outline both qualitative research design and pedagogical strategies tried over the years, mainly in teaching a large 12-week long qualitative methods course where students conduct research addressing community-identified priorities in collaborative research teams. 

Knowledge mobilization 101! Become familiar with knowledge mobilization plans and conceptualize strategies adapted to your goals and audiences. Speaker: Knowledge Mobilization Manager, Office of Research, Agri-Food Partnership By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Overview

This two-day workshop is part of a series of conversations led by the Community Engagement and Research Centre (CERC) at the University of Regina and Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) about community challenges and strategies related to the pandemic, as well as avenues for community-campus research, learning and creative partnerships to help mobilize just and sustainable ways forward.

At this event, doctoral students from the Social Practice and Transformational Change program will present the development and strategies used to conduct community engaged research projects during the Covid-19 pandemic. Future possibilities in teaching, learning, and community engaged initiatives for moving forward during these unprecedented times will also be explored. This event is being hosted by the Teaching and Learning Excellence Hub and the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute at the University of Guelph. 

Skills for Research Impact is a workshop series for University of Guelph faculty, research staff and graduate students interested in enhancing the impact of their research. Throughout the series, participants will be invited to apply the workshops’ content to their own research contexts and goals, and bring in real examples to work on.

Skills for Research Impact is a workshop series for University of Guelph faculty, research staff and graduate students interested in enhancing the impact of their research. Throughout the series, participants will be invited to apply the workshops’ content to their own research contexts and goals, and bring in real examples to work on.