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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

CSSE Annual Conference: Call for Presentations

CSSE’s 47th Annual Conference will be held from June 2 to June 5 at the University of BC (Vancouver campus). Members of CSSE are invited to submit documents related to their presentation by 1 October 2018 (23h59 Eastern). Proposals received after this date will not be considered. This conference is being planned in close collaboration... More

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

DISCUSSION PAPER: CCE Policy and Funding: The Challenge Ahead

Community-Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) is an emerging national network and community of practice focused on strengthening Canadian communities by increasing the capacity, infrastructure and impact of equitable community-campus partnerships of all types, including student experiential learning, community-engaged research, and social innovation.... More

Monday, August 20, 2018

CFICE VAW Researcher on Justice for Sexual-Assault Victims

CFICE Violence Against Women Hub Steering Committee member Holly Johnson recently wrote a piece for The Globe and Mail on police accountability in sexual assault cases. An excerpt of the article can be found below. To read the full piece, please visit The Globe and Mail. Justice for sexual-assault victims starts with police accountability... More

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

The SSHRC Partnership Grant: Is it the right grant to support your partnership with Canadian academics?

by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Grant applications can be long and arduous processes, and can swallow a lot of your capacity and time, which is why it’s important to make sure the grant will suit your needs. Before applying for a grant like the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) Partnership... More

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Growing Accessible Experiential Learning and Community-Campus Engagement in Canada

by Kawsar Mohamed, CFICE CCEC Administrative Research Assistant As a student with a disability, I am not surprised about the recent findings of Statistics Canada, which demonstrate that unemployment rates among people with disabilities are at least twice the national and provincial levels of all age groups. I was therefore ecstatic when I... More

Monday, August 13, 2018

Community-Campus Engagement Funding: A Student Perspective

What is it like to receive funding to participate in community-campus engagement work? Magda Goemans and Anna Przednowek, two long-time CFICE research assistants, talk to CFICE about how continuous Community-Campus Engagement funding has impacted their experiences. Both speak to how continuous funding allowed them to immerse themselves in the... More

Monday, August 6, 2018

Community-Campus Engagement Funding: A Community Perspective

What's the difference for a community organization between receiving community project funding versus community-campus engagement project funding? What makes community-campus engagements challenging with respect to funding? What opportunities does community-campus engagement funding provide to community organizations? In this podcast, we sit down... More

Thursday, August 2, 2018

TrentU Master’s Candidate Emily Amon studies the effectiveness of Community Based Research

CFICE Research Assistants (RAs) are making waves in community-based research! Emily Amon, an RA with the Student Pathways working group, was recently profiled by Random Acts of Green as a way of highlighting her Master's research on community impact. An excerpt of the article is included below, and you can read the full piece here!... More

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Flipping the Funding Model to Empower Communities

In CFICE’s “Conversations With” series, we interview community-campus engagement (CCE) practitioners to get their insights on CCE. Interview conducted by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant. Lee Rose is a curious social innovator with an knack for working across systems to drive change. He led the creation and development... More

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Call for Papers: Engaged Scholar Journal Special Issue — Due December 10, 2018

The Engaged Scholar Journal is seeking submissions for a special issue on Community Engagement and the Anthropologies of Health and Wellbeing. Guest Editors: Sylvia Abonyi and Pamela Downe Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learningis Canada’s online, open-access, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal... More

Monday, July 30, 2018

Academic Article: Projective Technique Reveals Unconscious Attitudes about Poverty in Canada

CFICE Poverty Reduction hub partners have recently published an article in the Journal of Poverty titled, Projective Technique Reveals Unconscious Attitudes about Poverty in Canada. Terry Mitchell, Colleen Loomis, Alexia Polillo, Brooke Fry, and Mary Mackeigan worked with CFICE as part of the Poverty Reduction hub's Phase I project on shifting... More

Friday, July 27, 2018

Visions for the Future of Community-Campus Engagement in Canada

What should community-campus engagement (CCE) look like for our students, our communities, and our institutions? This is the question that was posed to several panelists at the June 20, 2018 launch of Community-Campus Engage Canada, an emerging network of community-campus engagement practitioners seeking to share learnings and bolster the field of... More

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