Resources
Research for CSAHS Community-Engaged Scholarship Development |
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Defining our Terms: Community Engagement and Knowledge Mobilization This document provides referenced definitions for community, community-engagement, and knowledge mobilization. |
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Conference Report - Community Engaged Scholarship: Critical Junctures in Research, Practice and Policy Conference The Critical Junctures conference brought together national and international scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to present and discuss emerging research on community-engaged scholarship (CES) in higher education and its implications for research, practice and policy. Through presentations and discussion in small groups, panellists and conference goers identified gaps in knowledge, defined challenges and developed strategies to foster new multi-disciplinary networks and research partnerships. The conference was hosted by the College of Social & Applied Human Sciences and the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) at the University of Guelph, 2010. |
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Summary Results of a Survey on Faculty Community Engagement 2009 In 2009, CSAHS faculty at the University of Guelph were surveyed about their community-engaged scholarship (teaching, research, and service). The intention of the survey was to document current faculty involvement in community-engaged work, to identify important facilitators to engagement in research, teaching and service efforts, and to build on current successful practice. The results serve as a baseline of activities across the College to inform new initiatives intended to build capacity for community-engaged work. Implications for faculty support are discussed. Faculty Involvement in Community Engaged Activities Questionnaire The faculty involvement questionnaire may be used and adapted for your research purposes. We ask that you cite the questionnaire if/when you use it - citation information is provided within the questionnaire document. |
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Template for the Development of Assessment Criteria for Community-Engaged Scholarship This template contains a framework for both faculty submitting portfolios that include community engaged scholarship for the tenure and promotion process, and for the development of criteria that elicit questions of quality and impact for assessing engaged scholarship by departments, schools, and institutions. |
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Questions About New Knowledge Relationships at the CSAHS Research Shop What are important issues in thinking about community-university research partnerships? Based on the questions posed by community and university partners over multiple meetings held throughout 2009, the Research Shop developed this set of questions to be used as guidelines when creating new partnerships and entering into new research projects. |
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Re-conceptualizing the Tenure and Promotion Process: A Literature Review Community-engaged scholarship is gaining momentum in Canadian higher education, yet university reward systems have not kept pace. Much work needs to be done within university cultures to institutionalize and sustain community engagement as a core value and practice.This report presents a literature review of contemporary thinking and best practices on re-conceptualizing tenure and promotion processes to recognize a broader range of scholarly activities. Ideas for Documenting Community-Engaged Scholarship in a Dossier
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Research Shop Project Summaries and Reports |
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Community-Level Energy Efficiency Programs: A Literature Review of Best Practices for Promotion and Recruitment. This review of the social science literature identifies successful and unsuccessful strategies for promoting community-level energy efficiency. |
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Emergency Food Services in Guelph-Wellington: A Scan of the Current Systems and Thoughts on the Future. This report presents the findings of a research team from ICES/the Research Shop on the emergency food service system in Guelph-Wellington. Strengths and weaknesses of the current system, local programs and services to improve food security, and best practices and new strategies in emergency food provision and food security are discussed. |
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Collaboration: Priorities and Promising Practices. Collaborating for Community Impact Research Report. The Research Shop was engaged to investigate examples and promising practices in collaboration. Based on a literature review, key informant interviews, and an online survey of collaboration needs and priorities among participating organizations, this report presents the highlights from the research findings, beginning with a definition of collaboration. |
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Integrating a Sustainable Food Systems Framework into Guelph’s Official Plan. This report discusses the process of integrating a sustainable food systems lens into Guelph's Official Plan. In partnership with the Guelph Wellington Food Roundtable, Research Shop interns conducted a literature review of sustainable and local food systems in order to gain a broader understanding of best practices in the policy realm. With these resources, a detailed set of policy updates were compiled and layered over the existing Official Plan framework (see Appendix I). |
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Affordable Access to Recreation: Policies, Procedures and Programs in Wellington, Dufferin and Guelph. Prepared for in motion in collaboration with the Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination, this report presents results from a survey of service providers on policies and procedures related to affordable access to recreation. Implications for removing barriers to physical activity are discussed. |
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Guaranteed Annual Income. Prepared for the Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination, this report examines Guaranteed Annual Income, a concept that has dominated social security reform dialogue in Canada since the 1960s. The report reviews two models of GAI, the negative income tax model and the universal demogrant model, and considers the benefits and downfalls of each. |
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Report to Transition Guelph. Research Shop interns developed and carried out an outreach campaign designed to help achieve a successful launch of Transition Guelph in the local community. This report outlines considerations underlying the campaign strategy, the campaign strategy itself, reflections on lessons learned, and recommendations for similar undertakings. |
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The Cost of Poverty. Prepared for the Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination, this report summarizes current literature on the social costs of poverty. Major themes from the literature comprise costs related health care, crime, intergenerational poverty, and loss of productivity. An review of existing policy and programs is provided. |
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Living Wage. As requested by the Income Security Action Group of the Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination, this report provides the reader a basic understanding of a living wage. Using examples from Metro Vancouver and Toronto, the report explores the advantages and barriers that a living wage creates for employers, employees, families and individuals. |
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Report on the Task Force for Poverty Elimiation "Success Stories" Project. The rapid response project gathered success stories from representatives of the working/action groups of the Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination. This report that outlines the methodologies used in the project, summarizes the major themes that arose from the responses, and provides suggestions for the continued collection of this data in the future. |
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Final Report - The Community Research Project: Exploring Economic Hardship in Guelph. This report outlines a community based research process that took place in Guelph and Wellington County during the winter, spring and summer of 2010. For this project, community members with lived experience of poverty were trained to work as community researchers in order to identify gaps in services and programs and issues with accessing services and programs for those living in poverty. |
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Community Scan of Collaborations in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph. Together with the Healthy Communities Ontario Fund, the Research Shop conducted a scan of the types of collaborations related to healthy communities that exist in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (WDG). This comprehensive report provides insight into the current state of collaborations in WDG, including their key characteristics and strategic approaches, as well as an analysis of strengths and challenges of existing collaborations. |
Rapid Response Research |
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Developing a Communication Strategy for the Guelph Wellington Food Round Table. This rapid response research brief by intern Petrina Aberdeen for the Guelph Wellington Food Round Table (GWFRT) provides a literature review and environemental scan of communication strategies used for promoting food security in Ontario, identifying methods that have been found to be useful. |
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Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy Housing First Research. This short research brief was conducted by intern Andrea LaMarrefor the Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy Committee. Housing First is a strategy focusing on providing non-contingent housing to chronically homeless and the traditionally hard-to-house including individuals with mental illness and/or addictions.The following report outlines existing Housing First programs across the country, detailing their service delivery, depth and, where applicable, funding sources. |
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Withdrawal Management Services and the Effect of Distance. This short rapid response research brief was conducted by intern Andrea LaMarre for Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy Committee. It investigates the effect of geographic proximity of withdrawal management services on treatment for addictions. Distance is examined as a barrier to accessing addictions treatment in general and withdrawal management services in particular in the following report. Potential solutions for mitigating this barrier are also presented. |
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Rapid response research by intern Maria L. Cabal Garces contributed to a Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination research profile on Energy Poverty. |
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Rapid response research by intern Jacqueline de Guzman contributed to a Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination research profile on Warming and Cooling Centres. |
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Rapid response research by interns Jane Robson and Maria L. Cabal Garces contributed to a comparison chart about where the four main federal parties stood on key poverty issues in the May 2011 election. This information was collected from party platforms for the the Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination, as a companion to their voter’s guide. |
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Rapid response research by intern Amanda Peters contributed to a Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination research report on the Impact of Public Transit Fees on Low Income Families and Individuals in Guelph. |
Other Research Shop Documents |
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The Canadian Index of Wellbeing: Measuring What Matters. This presentation Research, Learning and Evaluation Action Group of the Guelph Wellington Taskforce for Poverty Elimination reviews the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, including some implications for its adoption as an indicator of quality of life or community wellbeing. |
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Program Logic Models. This presentation provides an overview of why program logic models (logical frameworks) are useful, their constitutent pieces, and describes a practice exercise for creating a logic model. |
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Guaranteed Annual Income: Developing Goals and Motivation to Address Work Disincentive. This literature review explores the concept of a Guarenteed Annual Income (GAI), including outcomes of GAI programs, barriers to GAI adoption, and potential educational and motivational solutions. |
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The Research Shop: Negotiating Ethics in Collaborative Community Work. This presentation to the CAREB-Ontario (Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards) conference reviews how ongoing relationships between Research Shop students, staff, community partners, faculty, and the REB facilitate agile project development and collaboration while maintaining ethical requirements. |
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The Research Shop. Originally published in the May 2011 edition of the International Journal of Community Based Research (http://www.scienceshops.org), this article by ICES and Research Shop director Linda Hawkins provides an overview of The Research Shop and its approach to community engagement and community-based research. |
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Perceptions of Educators Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evaluation of a Behavior Analysis Approach. Supported by the Research Shop, this survey of educators evaluated the impact of an outreach team providing training in applied behaviour analysis. This poster was originally presented at the Association for Behavior Analysts International conference in May 2011. |
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| Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Canadian Alliance for Community Service Learning Community Based Research Canada |