Events Archive

Horizons is an in-person conference (with virtual engagement options) and community gathering space for knowledge generation, mobilization and collective imagination. We are all living through one of the most disruptive and transformative eras in living memory—Horizons offers a space to explore the history and futures of community-engaged research (CER).

Held on June 24th, 2022 the Community Engaged Research in Action Panel Discussion featured conversation about the opportunities, challenges, and practicalities of doing community engaged research.

This symposium brings together community organizers, movement and youth leaders, media makers/storytellers, researchers, and other practitioners of climate justice to share practices, stories, and lessons to collectively strengthen our ability to advance climate justice.

In this webinar, RJ practitioners Evelin Aquino, Anita Wadhwa, Heather Bligh Manchester - authors of The Little Book of Youth Engagement in Restorative Justice - discuss their intergenerational work toward creating systems change for more equitable schools.

Participatory mapping approaches include & empower marginalized communities in mapping, and centre community-based knowledge as spatial data. Want to learn more? Join us for a free in-person workshop on Nov 17 at 2 pm! Everyone is welcome, no experience is required.

Trauma can be stigmatizing and isolating, and mainstream culture doesn’t always make space for its existence and its impact on people’s daily experiences. This interactive webinar will explore trauma-informed approaches to community engaged research, vital to creating safer, more supportive conditions for meaningful connection and equitable work.

Many of us do the work we do because we are invested in productively challenging the status quo. Through the contributions of special guest speakers and audience members, this webinar strives to cultivate a collective toolkit for culturally sensitive community engaged research.

Field Stories: Community-Engaged Research in Times of Crisis is a day-long virtual symposium that explores a range of community-engaged research practices, stories and assemblies about current social, health crisis and change.

Through an innovative, interactive discussion featuring special community guests and audience contributions, this webinar will consider what we can do now to decolonize our work, particularly as it pertains to community-engaged research. We invite you to bring your creativity, your delight and your readiness to shift your practice towards more inclusivity and joy.

This session aims to foster collective reflection on different challenges and opportunities of youth-adult collaboration in community-engaged research. It draws on our decade-long experiences in action-research projects with young people in Montreal. We will share insights from our most recent work with a group of youth co-researchers, which explore issues related to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of a longitudinal study on children growing up with cities.

Through spotlighting the reflections of CERi staff and researchers while inviting in the expertise and experiences of audience members, this webinar explores how to support the communities at the heart of community engaged research through adequate compensation.

Join us to learn about and engage with SFU biologist Lynne Quarmby’s new book, ‘Watermelon Snow’. Reflecting on a work described as ‘brimming with intelligence, love, and sorrow’, and a ‘song of both love and grief’, an interdisciplinary panel comprising a political scientist, poet, climate scientist, cell biologist, and lawyer join in conversation.

This event is a special session part of a national two-day online workshop led by the University of Regina’s Community Engagement and Research Centre and Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC). The session invites audience members to bring reflections and questions from their own regional research contexts to explore with each other and with the speakers, mapped onto Surrey as a backdrop and case study. This session is the final installment in SFU CERi’s Remaking the Table monthly webinar series exploring challenges in and horizons for community engaged research.

This event is a special session part of a national two-day online workshop led by the University of Regina’s Community Engagement and Research Centre and Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC). This panel will share experience and report on a series of media-centred community engaged research projects that were part of the Field Stories: CER in Times of Crisis Symposium.

The workshop will examine what it means to hold, share and give over space to youth voices in community-centred research.

Join us to hear from frontline workers and community leaders about contract worker justice at SFU and strategize about how to bring food service and custodial workers back in house as full members of the campus community.

As we navigate the multi-pronged challenges that have emerged as a result of climate change and the environmental crisis, it is clear that certain populations will feel the impacts more clearly than others. Children and young people are one of these groups, but they are also structurally excluded from political decision making to affect change within the normal avenues. They are also often excluded from driving the research and research agendas that inform decision-making. This session explores this experience and walks participants through some of the participatory processes that it included.

This symposium hosted scholars and education practitioners who are deeply committed to university learning, teaching, and research that articulates, strengthens, and sustains democratic principles and practices in education. Panelists reflected on the concept of the “unbounded classroom”, and the implications of expansive and consequential approaches to university teaching and to the activation of knowledge for a democratic society.

This blog is guest authored by Dr. Tiffany Muller Myrdahl. Earlier this year, I had the privilege of inviting Dr. Brett Stoudt, Assistant Director of the Public Science Project, to deliver one of CERi’s first workshops

On July 8, academic and community-based gathered digitally for CERi’s first online event. The conversation investigated how institutional ethics requirements failed to acknowledge the unique nature of community-based research.

Remaking the Table is a new monthly public webinar series produced by SFU’s Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERi). This series will unpack tensions, challenges and re-imagining in community-engaged research. Remaking the Table will explore strategies and solutions for a more equitable, inclusive approach to CER. The workshop series takes place on the third Wednesday of each month from 1-2pm Pacific Time.

The relationship between university-based researcher and community-based researcher is vital to community-engaged research. It is sometimes a complicated one, raising issues of privilege, commitment and unrecognized bias. It can also be a space of friendship, solidarity and mutual learning. Join us for the dialogue with two community-based researchers and two CERi Graduate Fellows exploring this relationship.