Work with us! The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) is hiring a Manager of Community Engaged Learning (CEL) to develop and deliver strategic opportunities for both community-based research and community-based learning in the College of Social & Applied Human Sciences (CSAHS).
Duties and Responsibilities
In recent years, the field of community engaged scholarship (CES) has been under increasing pressure to adapt in the face of deepening socio-political and ecological crises. Today, institutions and communities committed to community engaged (CE) methodologies face ongoing, historically-rooted critical challenges that often hinder their work for transformative change.
Join our team! The Research Shop is hiring four students for the following position:
The Research Shop is hiring students to join our team for the Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 semesters. These positions will support community engaged research projects.
The incumbent must currently be registered as a student at the University of Guelph and may be from any program
The following article was written by Zahra Husein who completed her graduate practicum in Applied Social Psychology with the Re-Storying Autism in Education partnership under the supervision of CESI’s Manager of Community Engaged Teaching and Learning in the Summer of 2023.
Poojan Joshi is a Masters Candidate in Applied Social Psychology at the University of Guelph.
Written by Jemma Llewellyn, with contributions from Caroline Duvieusart-Déry
This blog post was written by Jemma Llewellyn, a PhD student in Critical Studies in Improvisation and CESI’s Knowledge Mobilization Assistant. Over the Winter 2023, Jemma organized and co-facilitated Researchers for Change, a pilot project which brought together graduate students for informal learning and connection around topics of community engagement, collaboration and creativity in research. This piece gathers some of her thoughts and take-aways from her participation in this initiative.
The 2025 International Women's Day Conference, hosted by the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute at the University of Guelph, was a great success.
Participant presence and engagement made the event so meaningful.
For the 8th annual FREE International Women’s Day Conference, hosted by the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute at the University of Guelph, we are centering the experiences of those who deliver critical work to support underserved communities in the research space and beyond, acknowledging that such supporters may also see themselves in those communities. Rooting and Reckoning: Supporting the Supporters honours the complexities of navigating such lines of inquiry while highlighting the vital work individuals and groups are doing to accompany women* around the world.
*Women includes anyone who identifies with the gender category of woman. We resist essentialism, welcoming diverse expressions of womanhood.
The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) is pleased to announce the 2024/25 call for applications for our Student Fund for Critical Community Engaged Scholarship.
The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) is pleased to announce the 2024/25 call for applications for our Community Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) Course Support Fund.