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We're Hiring! Manager of Community Engaged Learning

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

Now Available: Toward Transformative Engagement Report 

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.  

We're Hiring! Research Shop Assistants - Apply by October 5

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

  • Research Shop Assistant

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

Restorying Autism: My Practicum Experience

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.

Re-imaging Graduate Research Through A Community of Practice: A Pilot

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.

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