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The University of Guelph's Landscape Architecture program and Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI), in collaboration with the City of Guelph and the Guelph Lab, are inviting graduate students from across disciplines to participate in Experiencing the City: Interdisciplinary, Community-Engaged Inquiry in Winter 2027. The course provides an opportunity for students to gain practical experience in community engagement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and urban design while contributing to a real-world municipal challenge.

Through a collaboration between the City of Guelph, the Guelph Lab, and the University of Guelph's Research Shop, students are helping uncover the histories reflected in the city's public spaces. Street names, parks, and memorials are familiar features of everyday life, but the histories behind them often go unnoticed. Who are these places named after, and whose contributions have been recognized?

The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI), the Arrell Food Institute (AFI), and 10C have renewed their collaboration agreement for July 2026 to June 2029, building on a long-standing relationship between CESI and 10C that began in 2017.

The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) is now accepting applications for the 2026–27 Community Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) Course Support Fund!

The Creating Healthier Communities event, held on June 23, 2026, aimed to foster cross-sector connections and relationships. With the hope of planting seeds for future collaboration opportunities, 89 attendees filed into the Guelph Arboretum Centre for a morning of rich conversation, information sharing, and problem solving. The event was grounded in the belief that meaningful change happens when community organizations, researchers, and practitioners work together.

We are excited to share that the Guelph Lab, one of CESI's program areas, has been featured in University of Guelph News! The article highlights the collaborative development of the Guelph Energy Equity Action Plan. The project brings together the University of Guelph, the Guelph Lab, the City of Guelph, and the University of Toronto to improve energy equity for Guelph residents.

A CESI article has become one of OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying's top-read articles for the past six months, four years after its publication.

In 2023, the Grey Bruce Local Immigration Partnership (GBLIP) conducted its first survey of immigrants and newcomers in collaboration with the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) at the University of Guelph. We are very pleased to be partnering again to conduct the survey once again in 2026.  

Do you have an interest in or would like to know more about knowledge mobilization (KMb)? Consider completing a Certificate in KMb offered through the University of Guelph’s School of Continuing Studies.

Join our team! The Research Shop is hiring four students for the following positions: