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February 2022

Skills for Research Impact: Stakeholder Engagement

Join us for the second installment of our six-part Skills for Research Impact workshop series! Engaging your audiences meaningfully is a critical aspect of an effective knowledge mobilization strategy. Reflect on how to connect with relevant stakeholders and support knowledge exchange throughout your research process to achieve your impact goals. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Visions for A Just, Food Future on Campus: BIPOC Students’ Stories of Food

BIPOC students at the University of Guelph, University of British Columbia, and University of Waterloo are invited to a free, online, digital storytelling workshop.  As a participant in the workshop, you will explore your ideas about, and experiences with, food and food (in)security by creating your own engaging 2-4 minute digital story. Expert facilitators will guide you step-by-step through the process.  The deadline to apply to participate is January 31st, 2022 (9am PST / 12 noon EST).

Skills for Research Impact: Disseminating Research

Join us for the third installment of our six-part Skills for Research Impact workshop series! How do you share your research with non-academic audiences? Learn about a number of potential mechanisms you can use for knowledge mobilization, discover how to choose a mechanism that’s appropriate for your audience, and take a deep dive into several popular mechanisms for dissemination, including social media, research summaries, infographics, and media.

Community Engaged Scholarship: A Pathway to Research Impact

This session will focus on principles and practices of community engaged scholarship, a form of collaborative research that addresses community-identified priorities. Speakers will provide an overview of principles, good practices, and the community engaged research cycle.  Speakers will also share case studies demonstrating how engaged research can support and deepen research impact, including the ways that anti-oppressive principles can enable research to address systemic inequities. Led by: Dr. Elizabeth Jackson, Director, Community Engaged Scholarship Institute