COMMUNITY
ENGAGED
SCHOLARSHIP
ROUNDTABLE
FRANK MAURER
ASSOCIATE VP(RESEARCH)
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
COMMUNITY ENGAGED
SCHOLARSHIP
Are you engaged in teaching and research
partnerships with people and organizations
outside of the university?
Impact on
Bed to bedside/clinic
Knowledge translation society
Getting results from the university/lab to the community
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• Policy creation
Typically: no/limited commercialization
The University of Calgary will be a global
intellectual hub located in Canada’s most
enterprising city. In this spirited, high-quality
learning environment, students will thrive in
programs made rich by research and hands-on
experiences. By our 50th anniversary in 2016, we
will be one of Canada’s top five research
universities, fully engaging the communities we
both serve and lead.
ACADEMIC PLAN
Talent
Attraction,
Development
and Retention
Teaching and
Research
Integration
Sustainability
Connection
with
Community
Academic
Priorities
Interdisciplinarity
Internationalization
Leadership
STRATEGIC
RESEARCH PLAN
http://www.ucalgary.ca/vpr/publications/
Strategy - Use Current Societal Needs
and our Capacity to Inform the Needs
for new Discoveries, Innovations and
Creative Endeavors to sharpen our
Research Focus
Goal - Support our Six Strategic
Research Themes and provide return to
Community
Goal - Engage our communities
PLATFORMS
Synthesis and Visualiza on
Analy cs and Simula on
Commercializa on
Transla on
Policy Crea on
Research Sta ons
Research Enablers
COMMUNITY ENGAGED
SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDTABLE
Purpose
• Create a discussion forum for researchers engaged with
our communities
• Provide networking opportunity leading to increased
interdisciplinary collaboration
• Discuss challenges, opportunities, improvements
CES – AN EXAMPLE
Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) working group
Rewarding Community
Engaged Scholarship:
Towards the Transformation of
University Policies and Practice
JULY 18, 2012
DR. GAYLE RUTHERFORD, FACULTY OF NURSING
DR. BILLIE THURSTON, FACULTY OF MEDICINE
ERIN KAIPAINEN, DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR
COMMUNITY-ENGAGED LEARNING
WHAT IS COMMUNITY ENGAGED
SCHOLARSHIP (CES)?
Engaging with key stakeholders outside
of the academy
Mutually beneficial community
partnerships for research and/or
teaching purposes
Apply collaborative expertise to realworld problems
PARTNERSHIP
FORMATION
University of Calgary responded to a call
for partners in July 2010
Four faculties: Medicine, Nursing, Social
Work, and Veterinary Medicine
National Partnership Governance
Committee
Coordinating office with part-time staff
located at the University of Guelph
PARTNERS
Memorial University of Newfoundland
University of Alberta
University of Calgary
University of Guelph
University of Regina, Faculty of Arts
University of Saskatchewan
University of Victoria
York University
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
PARTNERSHIP GOALS
A learning community around
institutional change strategies, policies
and practices
University tenure and promotion policies
and practices recognize and reward CES
Innovative mechanisms for developing
community-engaged scholarship
Sustainable network of universities that
support and advance CES
THREE CES NATIONAL
WORK GROUPS
Institutional Assessment and Change (Billie Thurston)
• revising and planning administration of self-assessment tool
Faculty Assessment (Gayle Rutherford)
• compiling and refining key performance indicators
Scholar Development (Erin Kaipainen)
• gathering and reviewing faculty development materials and
resources
Research Ethics Board (Billie Thurston) (local initiative)
• To identify and address challenges for timely approval of CES
projects
OUR QUESTIONS
• Success stories
• Identifying barriers in CES
• What policies and procedures within the
University of Calgary are supporting/not
supporting CES?
• What are the areas that need to be addressed
in facilitating faculty participation in CES?
• Improvement ideas
• Next steps
Please sign-up to participate in one of the four
working groups