Blog Post: Projects and partners

Since its introduction in 2017, the University of Guelph's Certificate in Knowledge Mobilization has offered training in knowledge mobilization and evidence-informed decision-making to hundreds of professionals. The Certificate provides in-depth training into the principles and practices of knowledge mobilization – that is, the process by which research is shared, used and applied to inform real-life situations. Through three eight-week courses, participants learn to identify and address barriers to knowledge use and discover tools and techniques to enhance the societal impact of research and facilitate the development of evidence-informed policy and practice.  

The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) is committed to increasing access to the Certificate to graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, as well as individuals working in not-for-profits or social service organizations.  

To support participation, CESI is offering bursaries to Course 1, Inform: Processes of knowledge translation and dissemination, taking place online from January 6, 2025, to March 16, 2025. The bursaries have a value of $1100 (community partners) and $910 (graduate students). 

Interested in learning about Community Engagement and how to actively engage your audiences in your research process? 

Considering registering for the Skills for Research Impact workshop taking place on Tuesday, October 8th, 2024 and learn from CESI's Manager of Community Engaged Teaching and Learning, Lindsey Thomson. 

Registration is now open for the Fall 2024 Skills for Research Impact Workshop Series. Offered in collaboration by the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute, the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance, and the Research Innovation Office, these workshops are designed for University of Guelph faculty, research staff and graduate students interested in enhancing the impact of their research. 

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

• Graduate Research Assistant 

The Guelph Lab is recruiting for a 6-month graduate research assistant position investigating funding models for food prescription programs in Canada. 

CESI is excited to promote this opportunity for student's with the People’s Archive of Rural Ontario (PARO). 

Join our team! The Research Shop is hiring two graduate students for the following position:

• Research Shop Assistant (Gender-Based Violence Project)

About the Project

Reporting to the Research Projects Manager at CESI, the Research Shop Assistant will work closely with research leads at Sustainable Livelihoods Canada to support a federally funded “From Crisis to Collaboration: A Systems Change Blueprint for Gender-Based Violence Organizations” project led by Sustainable Livelihoods Canada. 

The Guelph Lab, a collaborative partnership between the City of Guelph and the University of Guelph hosted by the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, has been renewed for another three years.  

The afternoon of April 17th emerged dark and overcast; the large rain clouds threatening to spill fat rain drops from the skies, which prompted the quick addition of layers from students skittering from building to building as they prepared for finals. Amidst it all stood two lone tents on Johnston Green, piles of sticks stacked up around the space, and four trees standing watch around two stone sculptures, shaped like the trunks of trees, collecting the rainwater as it began to make its release from the sky.  

There is a growing awareness of the impacts of food insecurity among post-secondary students in Guelph and across Canada; while food insecurity rates among various segments of the Canadian population are well-documented, food insecurity among post-secondary students has only recently gained the attention of researchers. Sliding scale markets are one intervention that has been developed to address food insecurity, currently being employed at the University of Guelph with promising results.

CESI regularly has the privilege of developing relationships with community organizations who are deeply immersed in the communities they serve and are familiar with the issues that impact them most strongly. These partnerships vary in length and depth, and take place across a range of programs and projects at CESI; the common thread linking them is a strong potential for transformational change and the goal of offering benefits for all parties involved, as well as the broader community.