Archives: Student Pathways

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

So You Want to Apply for a SSHRC Partnership Grant…The Challenges and Benefits to Having Many Partners

by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant There are many things to consider in advance of preparing and submitting your application for a SSHRC Partnership Grant. This month, CFICE has taken a look back at its own SSHRC application process and we have attempted to share some of the lessons we’ve learned along the... More

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Building learning pathways for students to become competent community-based researchers

by Mystaya Touw, Graduate Research Assistant, Student Pathways Working Group The CFICE Student Pathways Working Group is mapping and reviewing the curricular pathways for students. Why? Because findings in Phase I of CFICE suggested that, while senior undergraduates at Trent University are offered the opportunity to pursue community-based research... More

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Including community-campus engagement as part of a thesis

By Kate Higginson, CFICE Communications Research Assistant  Many grad students enter their Master’s degree or PhD with the hopes of helping their community. Community-campus engagement (CCE) is one way students can maximize the community benefits of their research. CCE work requires a significant time commitment, and it can be difficult to... More

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

So you want to apply for a SSHRC partnership grant… How can you respectfully involve your community partners?

By Chelsea Nash, Communications Research Assistant Being 'community first' means engaging and involving community partners at all stages of the partnership, even the application process. When the CFICE team was putting together its SSHRC application several years ago, the application process presented one of the first opportunities to put the... More

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The SSHRC Partnership Grant: Project Work Plans and Budgets

by Nicole Bedford, CFICE Project Manager and Communications Coordinator You've approached the partners, discussed governance and responsibilities, and now your team is ready to develop a realistic project budget and work plan. For funders like SSHRC, the key word is feasibility. This means they are looking for work plans and associated budgets... More

Monday, August 27, 2018

Community-Campus Engagement Funding: A Project Manager’s Perspective

While a lot of good work can come out of community-campus partnerships, there can be many challenges encountered along the way. Some of the most difficult ones to navigate can centre around funding. Nicole Bedford, Project Manager and Communications Coordinator of the CFICE project, talks to us about some of the challenges CFICE has... 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

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Achieving Positive Community Change through Reciprocal CSL Partnerships

In CFICE’s “Conversations With” series, we interview community-campus engagement (CCE) practitioners to get their insights on CCE. Interview conducted by Erin Martel, CFICE Communications Research Assistant. Lynn Sutankayo is a partnership coordinator at University of Alberta's (North Campus) Community Service-Learning (CSL) unit, where she... More

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Expectations and timelines when working with a post-secondary institution

by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Post-secondary institutions have specific timelines, long processes for things like ethics approval or grant applications, and generally speaking, a complex power structure that can involve some firm top-down governance. These factors can easily complicate a campus-community partnership,... More

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Ontario Government Work-Integrated Learning Mandate: What does this mean for Faculty, Community, and Students?

By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Co-op placements and internships, some unpaid, have long been the only way for many university students to put what they’re learning in classrooms into practice. These opportunities provide students with the chance to do a sort of taste-test of their chosen career path before graduation.... More

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Key Ingredients of ‘Community First’ CCE: Shared Aspirations, Values and Goals

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. This month, CFICE was happy to speak with Isabelle Kim, the Director of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Community... More

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The Benefits of Working with Post-Secondary Institutions

by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Entering into a partnership with post-secondary institutions (PSIs) can open a lot of doors for community-based organizations (CBOs), including access to certain funding opportunities, increased capacity, and the creation of new and collaborative networks with shared goals. CCE partnerships... More

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