Public Scholarship Certificate (PSC) workshop series provides opportunities to work with scholars, teachers, and community partners committed to publicly engaged work. Attendance in these workshops prepares participants with theoretical and methodological tools fundamental for pursuing successful publicly engaged projects.

PSC workshop dates and times are announced via the PSC listserv as well as the EHN and Graduate School calendars. At least one core PSC workshop from the list below will be offered each semester, and a number of additional workshops and events will be designated for PSC credit each semester.

Core Workshops

• Publicly Engaged Research Methods & Ethics

This workshop aids participants in establishing and defining their research methodologies and ethics when working in community settings. Workshop leaders will discuss how their methodologies have contributed to the work they conduct, and how these frameworks both limit and expand what is possible with community partners. Speakers will outline how their research ethics developed across projects as well as facilitate activities to equip participants with the tools necessary to (re)evaluate their own ethics as their scholarship progresses.

• Engaged Teaching

This seminar explores strategies for bringing publicly engaged scholarship and methods into the classroom. Speakers will provide an overview of the processes involved in establishing and maintaining community partnerships, identifying projects that simultaneously serve community partners and move students towards learning goals/outcomes, and creating assignments students will be able to engage beyond the classroom.

• Communicating with and across Communities

Working with non-academic communities requires academics to learn to communicate in forms outside of traditional academic genres. This seminar emphasizes the importance of cultivating effective community engaged and public facing communications. After providing an overview of potential strategies for demystifying academic data, processes, and jargon, the facilitators provide in-depth perspectives on how they have approached communications across contexts, genres, and media within their own work.

• Public Engagement & Professional Development

This seminar focuses on how public scholarship can be showcased in job applications for graduate students preparing to enter diverse job markets across and beyond the academy. Hosted by a experienced faculty members and/or community partners, the seminar explores different career pathways available to publicly engaged graduate students. The seminar provides answers to questions such as: How do I present public scholarship as part of my broader professional profile? How do I communicate the value of research bridging academic and public spheres? How do I carve out space in academia to engage in public scholarship? How do I put my scholarly training to use in work beyond the academy?