Engaged Scholarship Symposium Autumn 2023: Graduate Student Poster Competition

Engaged Scholarship Symposium Autumn 2023: Graduate Student Poster Competition

Call for Proposals

Ohio States engaged scholars have significant community impact with their community partners and make an important contribution to the university's culture of engagement, further strengthening the institution's commitment to supporting communities. The Autumn 2023 Engaged Scholarship Symposium on November 1 hosted by the Office of Outreach and Engagement featured a graduate student poster competition to provide graduate students an opportunity to share their engaged scholarship.

View posters in the Knowledge Bank.

Important Dates

  • Call for Proposals Opens: August 22
  • Call for Proposals Closes: September 18
  • Notification of Acceptance and Participation: September 20
  • Poster Submission Deadline: October 5
  • Viewing and Competition at the Engaged Scholarship Symposium: November 1

Submission Process

Please provide the following information in a PDF document emailed to nieto.12@osu.edu by September 18 at 11:59 pm.

Name:

Department/Program: Provide name of your home college, department, or program.

Degree: What degree are you pursuing?

Email:

General Description: Provide a brief description of your project/research in 50 words or less.

Selection Criteria: Please respond to the following four questions. There is a 100 word max response for each question.

Engagement: How does the project directly engage with or collaborate with community partners?

Reciprocity: How is the project beneficial to your academic discipline (scholarship and knowledge) and the community partners?

Capacity Building: Does the project increase the capacity of individuals in the community and community organizations to obtain new knowledge/expertise or advocate for themselves?

Community Improvement: Are the project's outcomes/results are intended to improve community processes, community conditions or community outcomes?

What is engaged scholarship?

Engaged scholarship can be defined as scholarly activities focused on the social, civic, economic, educational, artistic, scientific, environmental, and cultural well-being of people and places beyond the academy. It involves the creation and dissemination of new knowledge to address social issues through collaborative relationships and shared activity between those in the university and those outside the university. Source: Campus Compact

Travel/professional development stipends will be awarded to the top three scoring posters. First place will receive $500 and second and third places will receive $300. All accepted poster presenters will receive a $50 Amazon gift card and certificate of appreciation and participation for their engagement in the symposium. All posters will be featured on the Office of Outreach and Engagements website after the conference.

  • The competition will feature up to 20 poster competition presenters.
  • Posters will be submitted electronically as PDF files and printing will be arranged via UniPrint by the Office of Outreach and Engagement.
  • Presenters must be in attendance for the poster competition on November 1 at the Fawcett Center.