Trainee Hub

The Trainee Hub is an initiative for graduate students, post-doctoral research fellows, and clinical trainees who are members of the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children. Trainees will learn from community partners and researchers about the foundations, ethical dimensions, and planning for community-engaged research.

The Trainee Hub provides mentorship in the planning and implementation of community-engaged research by offering monthly in-person meetings. These workshops are being held as hybrid events on Microsoft Teams until further notice.

The Trainee Hub workshops are only open to the graduate students, post-doctoral research fellows, and clinical trainees who are members of the Centre. These members are invited to sign-up below to receive updates about the Trainee Hub events.

The Trainee Hub is moderated by Priscilla Medeiros, PhD

Knowledge Mobilization and Community Engagement Specialist, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, University of Toronto

Archived Sessions

2025

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 | Trainee Hub Event: "Partnering with Youth and Parents on Your Pediatric Research Grants: From Conceptualization to Submission"

This workshop explores key considerations for developing grant applications when working with youth and family partners from communities that are often under-served and face barriers to equitable participation in health research.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025 | Trainee Hub Event: "Laying the Foundation for Community-Based Research: How to Get Started"

This workshop focuses on the theory behind community-based research, including the hallmarks and values that are foundational to this approach, and how this approach can be applied in health settings. It also explores a key question: for those wishing to use this approach, how can you get started?

Thursday, January 23, 2025 | Trainee Hub Special Event: "Building Authentic Partnerships with Patient and Community Partners: Cultivating Communities to Engage in Research"

This Trainee Hub event is a collaboration between the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children Trainee Hub and The Hospital for Sick Children Research Training Centre.

This workshop explores the principles of authentic partnerships, including connection and commitment, creating safe spaces, valuing diverse perspectives, and fostering open communication. It highlights how these partnerships function in practice and what transparency looks like in research.

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2024

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | Trainee Hub Event: " Ethical Considerations for Collaborating with Patient and Community Partners in Research"

In this workshop, a panel of experts discuss strategies for partnering meaningfully in research, managing power dynamics, preserving confidentiality, and addressing conflicts of interest. With an emphasis on meaningful collaboration, the session covers principles like equitable engagement, transparent communication, and trust-building.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | Trainee Hub Event: "Relationships, Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity, and Responsibility: The Foundations of Trust and Engagement with Indigenous Communities"

This workshop outlines the fundamental principles for working with Indigenous communities. It provides an overview of best practices in forming genuine partnerships with Indigenous communities.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Trainee Hub Event: "Sustainable Youth Engagement in Health Research"

This workshop focuses on engaging young people in meaningful, long-term research projects. It provides an overview of best practices for ensuring sustainable youth engagement, along with tools and resources for evaluating youth involvement in research.

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Thursday, May 30, 2024 | Trainee Hub Event: "Program Evaluation and Evaluation Engagement: Approaches for Evaluating Community Engaged Projects"

This workshop introduces the core concepts of program evaluation and evaluation engagement.

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Wednesday April 17, 2024 | Trainee Hub Special Event: "Your Work Has Impact--So Should You! How to Tell an Engaging Story"

This Trainee Hub event is a collaboration between the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children Trainee Hub and Child Health Evaluative Sciences at The Hospital for Sick Children.

This workshop reviews the basics of storytelling as a research method and outlines the ingredients of a compelling story.

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 | Trainee Hub Special Event: "From Engaging to Empowering Community: Best Practices for Community-Engaged Research Co-Design"

This Trainee Hub event is a collaboration between the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children Trainee Hub and The Hospital for Sick Children Research Training Centre.

This workshop provides an overview of the importance of pre-engagement planning in the research question design, different types of engagement, and best practices for working with community partners.

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | Trainee Hub Event: "What is the 'F-words for Child Development'? Use and Impact on Child/Family Health Research"

This workshop provides examples and tools to support use of the F-words in practice and research, and encourages group reflection on how the F-words may be used in child/family health research work.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024 | Trainee Hub Event: "Enhancing Our Research with Parent Partnerships -- How We Developed a Parent Advisory"

This workshop provides an overview of the TARGet Kids! research network, and highlights best practices for planning and implementing a parent advisory group.

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2023

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 | Trainee Hub Event: "Engaging the Community in Co-Design of Drug Policy and Substance Use Research"

This workshop provides an overview of the work at the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation and its connection to creating impact through community-led co-design. This presentation is an introspective look at meaningful community engagement and best practices.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | Trainee Hub Event: "Advancing a Vision for Equity-Based Co-Creation"

This workshop provides an overview of equity-based co-creation, and shares visual prototypes that illustrate key features of this approach to service design and evaluation.

Tuesday, September 19, 2023 | Trainee Hub Event: "Planning for Impactful Engagement: Developing an Engagement Plan for Partnerships in Child Health Research"

This workshop focuses on how to co-design an engagement plan when collaborating with patients, families, and community members in the conduct of clinical research.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | Trainee Hub Event: "Engaging the Community in Research: Insights from Youth Partners"

This workshop focuses on strategies for engaging youth partners in the research process.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 | Trainee Hub Event: "Community-Based Research Axiology and Qualitative Health Research Methodology: An Introduction to Value-Adding Research"

This workshop focuses on the fundamental elements of qualitative research design.

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Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | Trainee Hub Event: "Community-Based Research: Preparing Your Study for REB Submission"

This workshop focuses on the ethical issues unique to community-engaged research.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023 | Trainee Hub Event: "Creating Equitable Spaces in Family Engagement in Research"

This workshop focuses on the importance of building authentic and meaningful relationships between families and researchers.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023 | Trainee Hub Event: "Community-Engaged Research and Learning"

This workshop focuses on the principles and theories related to both community-engaged learning and community-engaged research.

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