The document outlines the initiatives and strategies aimed at transforming knowledge partnerships through social innovation and community engagement at the University of Guelph. It emphasizes capacity building through workshops, collaborations, and research projects addressing complex social issues like poverty and food security. The importance of fostering transformative relationships and engaging diverse stakeholders to enhance the practical use of research is highlighted.

1. Start where you are.
Transforming knowledge partnerships
(through social innovation & engagement)
Linda Hawkins
Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship
University of Guelph

4. Build capacity for doing: Faculty, Students, Community
• Workshops with community
• Faculty/Scholar Development Workshops
• Graduate Level Course in Community Engaged Scholarship
• Communities on Campus
• Community Classroom
• Rewarding community-engaged scholarship: Transforming university
policies and practices
• National Conversations: CUExpo movement; CBRC; CCPH; CASL; Knowledge
Commons; RIR; social innovation and CU partnerships with SIG@Waterloo
• Research Shop

5. PhD candidates/
Intern team project managers
“rapid response” • Help scope projects
research • Conduct team based research
Collaboration • Supervise & mentor more
Sub junior students
Committees • Supervise rapid response
e.g.. Food Director &
Access Community Postdocs
Collaborations
• Multiple organizations & • Identify/scope potential research
individuals (5-35) projects
• Addressing substantive
• Supervise and support project
complex issue (poverty,
food security, housing)
managers
• Grassroots or mandated • Identify relevant faculty expertise
• Broker relationships and responses
Faculty KMb Interns
Researchers Create strategy;
Format reports;
Consults,
website; social media
engaged for
funded research Graduate
Grad
student Undergrad students in Paired with RS
CES course interns with
theses/ service complimentary
papers learning knowledge &
skills

7. Start where you are.
Pema Chödrön

9. Social Innovation Generation!
Social Innovation… is an initiative, product,
process or program that profoundly changes the
basic routines, resources flows, authority flows
or beliefs of any social system.!
“Jazz” Project Patterns: !
1. Complex systems worldview!
2. Identify and cultivate “readiness”!
3. Attuned to power!
4. Presence of a central catalyzer!
5. Sense of service to a greater whole!
Cheryl
Rose
sig@waterloo
Root: work is a direct challenge to the status quo!

10. Most important slide

11. Think like this

12. engage to understand

13. Step by step!
• Intention!
• Values!
• Questions!
• Implications!
• See (360)!
• Set directions!
• Act!
• Modify!
• Realize!

15. Filling
in
360
www.schoolforcivilsociety.ca

16. Knowledge mobilization - it’s a real challenge. We’ve
worked really really hard - over many years – decades - to
make sure that research doesn't get used.
Andrew Taylor
Tracking
outcomes
in
complex
systems
is
almost
impossible.
Michaela
Hynie
Try
it.
If
its
stupid
you
can
stop.
Cathy
Brothers
To summarize - dig where the ground is soft, donʼt water the
rocks, and when digging for potatoes, itʼs best to dig where the
potatoes are.#
Kerry Daly

17. Sometimes you have to let some of the wild horses
run. Take some risk takers - give them a little or
just enough enough stability - but let them try
something crazy for a few years.
Felix (Skip) Bivens

18. Thanks.
QuesCons?
Linda
Hawkins
Director
-­‐
InsCtute
for
Community
Engaged
Scholarship/Research
Shop
www.theresearchshop.ca
www.schoolforcivilsociety.ca
Wise
people
quoted:
Pema
Chodron
hOp://pemachodronfoundaCon.org/
Cheryl
Rose,
Social
Innov.
GeneraCon
Andrew
Taylor
of
Taylor
Newberry
ConsulCng,
Guelph
Cathy
Brothers,
ExecuCve
in
residence,
Capacity
Waterloo
Michaela
Hynie,
Department
of
Psychology,
York
University
Kerry
Daly,
Dean,
College
of
Social
&
Applied
Human
Sciences,
Univ.
of
Guelph
Felix
Bivens,
Assistant
Dean
of
Students,
Sewanee:
The
University
of
the
South
Also:
David
Snowden
hOp://cogniCve-­‐edge.com/
Shawn
Callahan
hOp://www.anecdote.com.au/
OOo
Scharmer
hOp://www.oOoscharmer.com/