Start where you are.

Transforming knowledge partnerships (through social innovation & engagement)

Linda Hawkins Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship

University of Guelph

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

Intern team “rapid response”

research

Undergrad service learning

• Identify/scope potential research projects •  Supervise and support project managers • Identify relevant faculty expertise • Broker relationships and responses

PhD candidates/ project managers

• Help scope projects • Conduct team based research • Supervise & mentor more junior students • Supervise rapid response

• Multiple organizations & individuals (5-35)

• Addressing substantive complex issue (poverty, food security, housing)

• Grassroots or mandated

Community Collaborations

Grad student theses/ papers

Paired with RS interns with

complimentary knowledge &

skills

Collaboration Sub

Committees e.g.. Food

Access

Faculty Researchers

Consults, engaged for

funded research Graduate students in CES course

KMb Interns Create strategy; Format reports;

website; social media

Director & Postdocs

Start where you are. Pema Chödrön

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!

Root: work is a direct challenge to the status quo!

Cheryl  Rose  sig@waterloo  

Most important slide

Think like this

engage to understand

Step by step!

•  Intention!•  Values!•  Questions!•  Implications!•  See (360)!•  Set directions!•  Act!•  Modify!•  Realize!

Filling  in  360  

www.schoolforcivilsociety.ca  

Try  it.  If  its  stupid  you  can  stop.  Cathy  Brothers  

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

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  

Tracking  outcomes  in  complex  systems  is  almost  impossible.  Michaela  Hynie  

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  

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/