CRHESI Reorganizes Around Four Annual Member and Community Events

Bringing communities together to collaboratively identify, research, understand, and address ‘wicked problems’ that prevent access to justice, health, and belonging for all people. (CRHESI Objective)

Since the launch of CRHESI in November 2015, we have learned a great deal about building effective university-community collaborations. Now it is time to build upon what we have learned. Over the last twelve months, we have synthesized and incorporated the experience of the past four years into our working priorities and directions for the next phase of our journey.

As a result, beginning this September, the ‘CRHESI calendar’ year will be organized around four key events per year: two ‘lightning talks’ sessions and two community research incubator sessions. Together, these four events serve as our foundational programming strategy for instigating and reporting back on membership and community partnerships.

The lightning talk events are, in essence, biannual mini-conferences. Each event provides wide-ranging updates about research and collaboration endeavours in the region that relate to health equity and social inclusion. Lightning talk events also feature a community reception as well for informal connecting.

The community research incubators establish a bi-annual, adaptive and engaging forum for connecting community leaders, academics, local organizations, and students around new issues, community needs, and research opportunities.

▪The next community research incubator is September 24, 3:00 – 4:30 PM (RSVP)

▪The next lightning talks event is Thursday, November 21, 3:00 – 4:30 PM (RSVP)

▪The schedule for all upcoming lightning talks and community research incubators through 2022 are posted on the CRHESI events page.

All CRHESI members are strongly encouraged to prioritize participation in these events. We are refocusing/reallocating significant coordination resources to maximize the effectiveness and value of these sessions as core engagement priorities. In short: these four yearly event events are the four most important CRHESI events in the year.

If you are interested in becoming more involved, presenting, or utilizing these sessions in order to galvanize new projects or forge new collaborations, please email us at info@crhesi.ca. If you are interested in becoming a CRHESI member, click here to learn more about joining our ecosystem of community and university partners.

Research Associate Position

CRHESI member Dr. Javeed Sukhera is looking for a Research Associate. This is a part-time position averaging 20 hours per week for a 2-year term. We are specifically looking for someone with expertise in qualitative approaches (constructivist grounded theory, ethnography, critical theory, etc.,).

The primary activities for this position are to support a research study that explores the process of care for people who inject drugs (PWID) in acute care settings. This includes coordinating a research study using constructivist grounded theory, coordinating a community advisory council, and supporting knowledge translation/dissemination. Specific activities would include but may not be limited to: recruitment of research participants, maintaining research files including informed consent documentation, collecting research data from observations, interviews, and focus groups, and providing support for data analysis, literature searches and manuscript writing.

The Research Associate will be a critical facilitator of the research program of the Department of Psychiatry and Dr. Sukhera’s Program of research. There is also a direct relationship with the Centre for Education Research and Innovation (CERI) at Western. This research program addresses key areas of teaching and learning in clinical settings, with a specific focus on implicit bias, stigma, and equity.

To apply, please use the UWO careers website and look for posting #16704. For more information, please contact Dr. Sukhera directly at Javeed.Sukhera@lhsc.on.ca.