Past Events

Celebrating 20 Years Over its 20-year history, the Centre for Families, Work and Well-being led and collaborated on significant projects that influenced policy and programs, motivated workplaces and communities to adapt to the changing needs of individuals and families, fostered interdisciplinary research and provided new ways of learning for students and communities. We are proud to celebrate and honour 20 years of research innovation and impact.

Join us for a brown bag lunch and learn with the Kinross Chair in Environmental Governance and the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics. Learn about Guelph's partnership bid to create Canada's first circular economy, and the new Circular Economy Leadership Coalition with special guests: Barbara Swartzentruber - City of Guelph's Executive Director of Strategy, Innovation and Intergovernmental Relations Alan Young - Managing Director of the Circular Economy Leadership Coalition

The ocean contains the switch of life…and that switch can be turned off. In Sea Sick, acclaimed science journalist ALANNA MITCHELL shows us why we should care. Using science and her delicate wit, this is a deep dive into how the pieces of this huge global puzzle fit together. Alanna delivers a powerful and often humorous solo performance, inspired by her international bestseller and award-winning book. Sea Sick will take you to the bottom of the ocean and deliver you back up into hope and redemption.

Join us for an informal dialogue with Stephanie Cairns about exciting sustainability solutions. Stephanie Cairns of the Smart Prosperity Institute – a national green-economy think tank and research network – is an expert on policy and market-based instruments for climate change action.  

The Hub for Teaching and Learning Excellence, the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute, the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, and the Kinross Chair in Environmental Governance are co-hosting a lunch and learn session about the trends and opportunities in the world of strategic evaluation. Program evaluation – the use of social research approaches to make evidence based decisions about programs – is changing in complex ways. Guest speakers will share how evaluation can be utilized to inform research excellence and academic programs.

Scholars at Risk (SAR) is a global network that advocates for academic freedom worldwide and connects vulnerable scholars with universities seeking to host them. Dr. Evren Altinkas is the first visiting professor who has joined the University of Guelph through the SAR network. In this lecture, he will provide comparative historical insights about academics in Europe, North America, and the Middle East to address the issue of academic freedom.

Presented by the Hub for Teaching and Learning Excellence The Hub for Teaching and Learning Excellence is hosting a lunch and learn session to learn through a student lens about the development of co-constructed learning spaces. Students will share an experience where they were challenged to “rethink the human” by centering on the lives and experiences of queerness, disability, people of colour, fatness, and other marginalized bodies to meaningfully engage theoretical and applied learnings in the classroom environment.

Develop strategies to translate 'women’s emotional labour' into 'executive leadership practice'. Join Dr. M. Gloria González-Morales and PhD candidate Grace Ewles to explore the links between gender, emotional labour, imposter syndrome, stress, and burnout and ways to effectively translate women’s emotional labour into executive leadership practice.

Join us for a panel discussion Panelists will discuss political activism and socially engaged research in Political Science. Panelists:

Back by popular demand, U of G is organizing a trip to Ottawa to provide undergrad and grad students a unique opportunity to visit Health Canada! An information session will be held on Tuesday, October 16th from 6:30pm-7:30pm in Rozanski 102.   During this trip, you’ll be able to: