May 10-14, 2011

academic: faculty, staff & students

If you:

• Conduct research in the community – a community-engaged scholar,
• Leverage student coursework to tackle local challenges,
• Partner with organizations to enhance impact,

Or, you are exploring how to embark in any of these directions, you will find value in coming to Waterloo for CU Expo 2011. Three days and four evenings of packed programming May 10-13 will inform your activities, strengthen your partnerships, and offer opportunities to connect with others across a range of disciplines. Choose from 250 sessions in a variety of formats - talks, roundtables, panels, workshops, open spaces and more. Be exposed to cutting-edge knowledge on current and emerging trends from others taking similar approaches in research and programs, but from outside your field, and in unique ways that could tweak or even transform your own work.

Join us at CU Expo 2011: Register | Sponsor | Exhibit

**Student reduced rate**
**One-day registrations are available**

Features:

• More than 50% of delegates are academics, with programming that includes poster sessions, networking time, and many sessions with an academic focus.
• Roundtable sessions, such as: ‘Universities without walls’, ‘Assessing learning of students involved in C-U partnerships’, ‘C-U partnerships: mediating elements and processes’.
• Skill-building workshops, such as: ‘Practical tools for publishing community-based participatory research’, ‘Community advisory boards in community-based participatory research: best processes’, and ‘Making the best case for promotion and tenure: tips and strategies for successful careers as community-engaged scholars.’
• Presentations, such as: ‘Training immigrant peer researchers for CBPR on HIV/AIDS in Germany’, ‘Promoting an innovative system-wide approach to mental health services in Waterloo and Wellington-Dufferin Regions’, and ‘Meeting the challenge of peer-reviewed journal publication’.
• Visit community organizations undertaking innovative C-U partnerships.
• Evening activities that include a theatre production by MT Space and a musical performance hosted by the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Jazz Group.

Sessions will cover many themes, including:

• Diversity & Migration: health issues, immigrants in the agricultural sector, community engagement, cross-cultural and language issues, and advocacy issues.
• Mental Health: community voices, vulnerabilities, stigmatization, and using participative approaches with those experiencing mental health issues.
• Environment: how research is used in environmental issues, advocacy, and promising practices in locations around the world.
• Disability: inclusion, advocacy, workers rights and worker injuries.
• Aboriginal issues: capacity building, healthcare, and early childhood development.
• Health: built environment and health, policy issues, social mobilization, promoting healthy lifestyles, and sessions focusing on specific health issues such as HIV/AIDs and breast cancer.
• Many sessions are on the ‘how tos’ of CU partnerships and community-based research, including:
  • Community Service Learning
  • Building partnerships
  • Exemplar practices
  • Ethics
  • Participatory planning
  • Engaging community members
  • Working with community advisory boards
  • Definitions and theory
  • Working across sectors
  • Publishing
  • R­eciprocity and trust

Join us at CU Expo 2011: Register | Sponsor | Exhibit

**Student reduced rate**
**One-day registrations are available**