Henk Mulder , Norbert Steinhaus , Linda Hawkins

1. Science Shop/Research Shop School: Building mechanisms for community-university research engagement HenkMulder, Norbert Steinhaus, Linda Hawkins

2. About us Henk Mulder The Perares Project, Science Shop Groningen Norbert Steinhaus Living Knowledge Network, Bonn Science Shop Linda Hawkins Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship/ Research Shop, University of Guelph Science Shops: Building mechanisms for research engagement

3. Workshop Goals • Identify different kinds of mechanisms for engagement • Science Shop model • Understand processes of mediation of community questions • Learn strategies for addressing quality and impact for researchers and community/CSO • Understand institutional or community issues of commitment, location and funding • Know where to access additional resources and support for your work Science Shops: Building mechanisms for research engagement

4. Current Context (1): • Relevance, engagement, impact • CSO and government: engaging citizens; public participation Science Shops: Building mechanisms for research engagement

5. Context (2) Funders: • Canada Tri-council: CURA to Partnership grants (CSO/univ); KMb; CIHR KTT • McConnell “11”; Trillium, United Way • Carnegie Foundation; Kellogg; EU xx? Individual researchers (univ and community) • CBR, CPBR, PAR, KMb, CEL • KMb, KTT, KT Institutional Mechanisms • Extension • Offices of CBR, CSL; CBR offices in community org’s or stand alone; consultants • Official Plans, strategies, pillars • Cross institutional projects: CES Collaboration (p&t); Research Impact Science Shops: Building mechanisms for research engagement

6. Context (3) European Trends • European Commission: Science in Society; Responsible Research and Innovation: Governance • Skills requirements for students • Other countries: Outreach, Societal Impact Networks • Community Based Research Canada; Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research • Community-Campus Partnerships for Health • CUexpo movement: Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Victoria, Waterloo… Cornerbrook! • GUNI; Tailloires • Living Knowledge Network! Science Shops: Building mechanisms for research engagement

8. Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship/Research Shop Science Shop/Research Shop School: A workshop to build mechanisms for community-university research engagement Guelph 2012

9. research needs  Developing and maintaining partnerships for multiple streams of activity  Assisting in developing capacity to work with university • Engaging & mentoring students • Supporting and training students for community driven agendas  Linking coursework and community identified needs  Training students for faculty research support  Developing capacity through grad course, workshops, internships • Engaging & supporting faculty • Supporting and brokering faculty research interests  Facilitate and support conducting research  Partnership development and maintenance  Capacity development for CES Builds capacity for doing: Faculty, Students, Community • Faculty/scholar development workshops; workshops with community • 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

10. Context of ICES/Research Shop • Built with community (RS) & students • Values based: reciprocity; in context; transformational (collabs not orgs) • Faculty “serving” • Institutional context & resources • Growing ICES: attention to internal/external • Beginning dream to realized model • Support for innovation, risk-taking & responsiveness

11. Research Shop - structure • 25-30 grad sts (stipend); 5-7 PhD students (pd) ; 2 staff/postdoc mentors; increasing faculty involvement; additional grad/undergrad students and project managers as required • Director, secretary; events assistant; knowledge mobilization coordinator • Pov Task Force, GWFRT, Drug Strategy, COC, City, Family & Childrens’ Services; Community Resources Centre; GCHC; United Way; Women’s Action Cttee; Sustain ON; Everdale; Farmstart • Content: Social service delivery/access, evaluation, re-alignment; Engagement/participation as content • Research methods from PAR to… KT • Common: needs assessments; eval; lit reviews; policy reviews; briefs; conceptualization of work and/or research

12. But what do they do? • Graduate students apply and commit to 2 semesters • Meet every 3 weeks/ proj. meetings in between • Staff supported/peer learning on projects and CES • Rapid response; complex projects in teams (with PI); link to other resources • Professional skill development (proj mgt, grant writing, negotiation, responding to RFPs), • Contribute their own expertise to interdisc problem solving

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

14. Transformational:Data-base(d) or Relationship based? • More linkages, students, products • Ability to promote topics of concern to community • Quality and impact issues • Unanticipated outcomes (new students, CSOs) • Matching with less staff time • Ability to plan forward • Suitable for referring • High quality of product • Deep knowing in some sectors • Limited scope/high staff to student ratio • Unanticipated outcomes • Suitable for building larger projects outside original scope • Suitable for social sciences • Difficulty in planning (immediacy of response)

15. Resources and Support (1) • Living Knowledge Network www.livingknowledge.org • Tool box, magazines, newsletters, listserv (open for project development, advice, info, etc.); discussion • Checklists; drafts of agreements/contracts; advice on charging fees • People in Network • Conferences and workshops: GUNI (May 13-15, Barcelona , Cuexpo (June 12-15 Cornerbrook), Living Knowledge Network (April 9-11, 2014 in Copenhagen) Science Shops: Building mechanisms for research engagement

16. Campus Compact http://www.compact.org • Canadian Alliance of Community Service Learning http://www.communityservicelearning.ca • Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Community Engagement Elective Classification of Higher Educational Institutions http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/descriptions/ community_engagement.php?key=1213 • Community-Based Research Canada http://communityresearchcanada.ca • Community-Campus Partnerships for Health http://www.ccph.info • Faculty Engaged Scholars Program at UNC-Chapel Hill http://www.unc.edu/cps/faculty-engaged-scholars.php • Imagining America http://www.imaginingamerica.org • International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement(IARSLCE) http://www.researchslce.org • Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship http://www.theresearchshop.ca/ • Knowledge Commons http://knowledgecommons.ning.com • National Outreach Scholarship Conference http://www.outreachscholarship.org • Rewarding CES: Towards the Transformation of University Policies & Practices http://www.cescholarship.ca

17. ONLINE TOOLKITS & DATABASES • Anchor Institutions Toolkit: A Guide for NeighborhoodRevitalization http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/anchortoolkit • Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit http://www.communityengagedscholarship.info • Developing & Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships http://www.cbprcurriculum.info • Database of Faculty Mentors & Portfolio Reviewers http://facultydatabase.info • Yafflehttp://www.yaffle.ca JOURNALS & OTHER PUBLICATION OUTLETS • AACU journal Peer Review http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/index.cfm • CCPH Online List of Journals that Publish CES http://bit.ly/acQldR • CES4Health.info (a place to publish diverse products of CES including videos, resource guides, policy briefs, curricula, etc) http://www.CES4Health.info • Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (JHEOE) http://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/index.php/jheoe/index • Metropolitan Universities Journal (MUJ) http://muj.uc.iupui.edu • MUJ Theme Issue on Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative http://www.cumuonline.org/mujAbstracts.aspx?a=87 • Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning http://www.umich.edu/~mjcsl REPORTS • Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions. (2005). Linking • Scholarship and Communities. Community- Campus Partnerships for Health. http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/kellogg3.html#ProjectUpdates • Dragne, D. (2007). Background document for the University of Victoria Task Force on Civic • Engagement http://talloiresnetwork.tufts.edu/wp-content/uploads/Background_UVic_Task_Force_CE.pdf • Locke, W. (2009). Reflecting on Regional Engagement of Higher Education Institutions: Have We Learned Anything,http://www.usucoalition.org/downloads/part6/USU_White_Paper_Report_2010.pdf • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2010). Collaborating for Change: Partnerships to Transform Local Communities http://www.oup.org/publications/oup_pubs.asp