Workshops

  • Connecting Dots: Entangling Experiences of Women from Colombia and Afghanistan in Peace-building
  • Empowering Gender Equality through Public Art: Engaged Learning and Communities of Practice for Effective Gender Policy Briefs in Kyrgyzstan
  • Tackling Barriers of Access to Basic Education in Africa – Experiences of Engaged Scholars from South Africa, Uganda & Kenya

Amplifying the Voices of Engaged Researchers Around the World

OSUN and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities (TN) have awarded 24 grants to faculty and graduate students in 14 countries to support their engaged scholarship. These faculty and graduate students are working to develop long-term, sustainable community partnerships as a central part of their research, with a goal to develop shared knowledge about issues that align with OSUN and TN priorities. Engaged scholarship facilitates the development of civic capacities – such as courage, humility, and empathy –  in university students, staff, faculty, and community partners.

2023 Scholars

  • Anne Hunnell Chen
    Anne Hunnell Chen

    BARD COLLEGE, USA
    Project: Lives in Ruins: Assessing and Addressing the Needs of Syrian Heritage Workers

  • Austin Dziwornu Ablo
    Austin Dziwornu Ablo

    UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
    Project: Volarizing Informal Solid Waste Sector in Low-Income Communities

  • B Camminga
    B. Camminga

    THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA
    Project: Vulnerability Amplified: Assessing the Needs of LGBT Refugees in South Africa

  • Catalina Muñoz
    Catalina Muñoz

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, COLOMBIA
    Project: Co-Production of Storytelling for Peacebuilding in Colombia

  • David Monk
    David Monk

    GULU UNIVERSITY, UGANDA
    Project: Integrating Indigenous Knowledges in Engaged Scholarship

  • Diana Ordoñez Castillo

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, COLOMBIA
    Project: Museums, Emotions, and Well-Being: Community-Based Museums of Memory in Colombia

  • Elvis Akomoneh
    Elvis Akomoneh

    UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA, CAMEROON
    Project: Young Women’s Access to Contraceptives and Sexual Education in Conflict Regions

  • Emil Nasritdinov
    Emil Nasritdinov

    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA, KYRGYZSTAN
    Project: Engaging City Residents in Mapping the Performance and Memories of Bishkek

  • Félix Díaz
    Félix Díaz

    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA
    Project: Continuing Support to Professional Caregivers for Persons With Cognitive Impairment in Bulgaria

  • Heather Legodi
    Heather Legodi

    UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
    Project: Engaging and Mobilising an Informally Settled Community to Prevent NCDs

  • Jarkyn Shadymanova
    Jarkyn Shadymanova

    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA, KYRGYZSTAN
    Project: Promoting Gender Equality Through Public Art: Fostering Cultural Dialogue

  • Jazmín Puicón
    Jazmín Puicón

    BARD EARLY COLLEGE, US
    Project: Innovative Newark: Creating Engaged Citizens in the Global City

  • Jen Baird
    Jen Baird

    BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK
    Project: Lives in Ruins: Assessing and Addressing the Needs of Syrian Heritage Workers

  • K
    K.

    BARD COLLEGE, US
    Project: (Im)mobile Subjectivities of Russian Dissent During the War in Ukraine

  • Martina Jordaan
    Martina Jordaan

    UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
    Project: Capturing Stories of the Mamelodi Community Using Digital Video Editing Software

  • Mia Sasaki
    Mia Sasaki

    PARAMI UNIVERSITY
    Project: Education for Further Studies (EFS)

  • Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona
    Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona

    BARD COLLEGE, USA
    Project: Human Rights and Arts: School-Seeding of Cañaverales Defenders

  • Mocke Jansen van Veuren
    Mocke Jansen van Veuren

    UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA
    Project: Stirring the Beehive: Animating Critical Community Pedagogies

  • Mónica Espinosa Arango
    Mónica Espinosa Arango

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, COLOMBIA
    Project: Rural and Academic Women Partnership for Grassroots Sustainable Futures In Las Mesas, Colombia

  • Ntokozo Yingwana
    Ntokozo Yingwana

    UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA
    Project: Caring for Sex Workers’ Children: an Implementation Study With M4f Gauteng Caregivers

  • Patricio Belloy
    Patricio Belloy

    UMASS BOSTON’S MCCORMACK GRADUATE SCHOOL, USA
    Project: Community Research in Voc-Tech: Tracking the Success of Renewables Education

  • Peroline Ainsworth
    Peroline Ainsworth

    BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK
    Project: Reimagining School with Cooperative Educators in Patagonia

  • Peter Gakio Kirira
    Peter Gakio Kirira

    MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY, KENYA
    Project: Community Partnerships and Adoption of Safe Water in Rural Schools of Kenya

  • Sabrina Nourin
    Sabrina Nourin

    ASSOCIATE AT BRAC UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH
    Project: Role of Intersectionality in Empowering Marginalized Women via Entrepreneurship

  • Sameh Hallaq
    Sameh Hallaq

    AL-QUDS BARD COLLEGE, PALESTINE
    Project: Impact of Climate Change on the Agricultural Sector In Palestine

  • Samuel Mahugnon Ahossouhe
    Samuel Mahugnon Ahossouhe

    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, BURKINA FASO
    Project: Valorization of Urban Mine for the Development of Circular Economy in Low-Income Countries of West Africa: A Case Study in Burkina Faso

  • Saw Yan Naung
    Saw Yan Naung

    PARAMI UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE
    Project: Education for Further Studies (EFS)

  • Seyfe Tareke Woldehiwot
    Seyfe Tareke Woldehiwot

    MEKELLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ETHIOPIA
    Project: Solar-Powered Charging Stations for IDPs in Tigray

  • Yenny Gómez
    Yenny Gómez

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, COLOMBIA
    Project: Rural and Academic Women Partnership for Grassroots Sustainable Futures In Las Mesas, Colombia

2022 Scholars

  • Alberto Fierro
    Alberto Fierro

    CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, AUSTRIA
    Project: Expanding the Boundaries Between Academia and Activism: A Participatory Workshop

  • Alžbeta Brozmanová Gregorová
    Alžbeta Brozmanová Gregorová

    MATEJ EL UIVERSITY, SLOVAKIA
    Project: Voices of Invisible Women in Banská Bystrica

  • ASIFA SULTANA
    Asifa Sultana

    BRAC UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH
    Project: Education in One’s Own Language Through Community Participation

  • Bernadett Sebály
    Bernadett Sebály

    CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, AUSTRIA
    Project: Movement Timeline – An Online Educational Tool of Hungarian Movements

  • Carol Montealegre
    Carol Montealegre

    BARD COLLEGE, UNITED STATES
    Project: Howls in the Mountains. Memory, Territory, and Transformation

  • Diana Ordoñez Castillo

    UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, COLOMBIA
    Project: Museums, Emotions, and Well-Being: Community-Based Museums of Memory in Colombia

  • Elaine Chan
    Elaine Chan

    NTERNATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, MALAYSIA
    Project: Community-Empowered Digitally-Mediated Personalized Diabetic Care

  • Fernando Ona
    Fernando Ona

    TUFTS UNIVERSITY, UNITED STATES
    Project: Wonder/Wander: Communities Strengthening Spiritual Care at a Safety-net Hospital

  • Inga Winkler
    Inga Winkler

    CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, AUSTRIA
    Project: The Global Menstrual Movement & Human Rights from Below

  • Jarkyn Shadymanova
    Jarkyn Shadymanova

    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA, KYRGYZSTAN
    Project: Promoting Gender Equality Through Public Art: Fostering Cultural Dialogue

  • Jazmín Puicón
    Jazmín Puicón

    BARD EARLY COLLEGE, UNITED STATES
    Project: Innovative Newark: Creating Engaged Citizens in the Global City

  • Jelena Ćeriman
    Jelena Ćeriman

    UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE, SERBIA
    Project: Using Your Rights: Empowering Serbian Minorities Through Their National Councils

  • Joseph Oloba
    Joseph Oloba

    LIVINGSTONE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, UGANDA
    Project: Opportunities for VSLAs in Driving Communal Economic Progress

  • Joseph John Viscomi
    Joseph Viscomi John

    BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNITED KINGDOM
    Project: Depopulating Landscapes: Environment and Community Archives in Calabria

  • Koching Chao
    Koching Chao

    NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN
    Project: Participatory Art and Civic Identity in Post-industrial Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • Martina Jordaan
    Martina Jordaan

    UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
    Project: Capturing Stories of the Mamelodi Community Using Digital Video Editing Software

  • Nidah Kaiser
    Nidah Kaise

    SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
    Project: Needs Assessment in Anti-muslim Violence: a Study of, for, and by Indian Muslims

  • Nurzhamal Karamoldoeva
    Nurzhamal Karamoldoeva

    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA, KYRGYZSTAN
    Project: Empowering Parents of Children with Disabilities in Kyrgyzstan

  • Olga Tarabashkina
    Olga Tarabashkina

    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA, KYRGYZSTAN
    Project: Needs of Kyrgyzstani Youth in Climate Knowledge and Resilience Strategies

  • Peter Gakio Kirira
    Peter Gakio Kirira

    MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY, KENYA
    Project: Community Partnerships and Adoption of Safe Water in Rural Schools of Kenya

  • Rebekka Mirjam Hölzle
    Rebekka Mirjam Hölzle

    BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNITED KINGDOM
    Project: Migrant Women with NRPF: Resisting the UK’s Hostile Environment

  • Rouslan M. Rakhimov
    Rouslan M. Rakhimov

    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA, KYRGYZSTAN
    Project: Promoting Gender Equality Through Public Art: Fostering Cultural Dialogue

  • Sameh Hallaq
    Sameh Hallaq

    AL-QUDS BARD COLLEGE, PALESTINE
    Project: Impact of Climate Change on the Agricultural Sector In Palestine

  • Sooriya Arya
    Sooriya Arya

    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA, KYRGYZSTAN
    Project: Women’s Peace & Conflict Resolution Archive & Writing Portals

  • William Ackah
    William Ackah

    BIRKBECK UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
    Project: Reducing Knife Crime in Inner London: An Engaged Community-Based Approach