Community-Engaged Learning team at the University of Victoria

CELebrate Learning: A podcast about community-engaged learning and teaching!

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This podcast highlights diverse perspectives and experiences of CEL, aiming to provide useful insight, tools and inspiration to students, faculty and community members alike. Our episodes will cover a range of topics, such as intersectionality, reflection, the spectrum of engagement, and stories of the power of learning in community to help deepen understandings of CEL possibilities.

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Community-Engaged Learning team at the University of Victoria

Episodes

Spectrum of Engagement - Episode 5: Co-Create 05.05.2026 35:47

For the fifth and final faculty-focused episode in the CELebrate Learning Podcast Instructor series, Host and former CEL Manager Rhianna Nagel (she/her), and current CEL Coordinator Rosa McBee (she/her) speak with UVic professor Sarah Marie Wiebe (she/her) about what doing community-engaged teaching looks like for her. Sarah shares her thoughts relationship-building, navigating logistical surpris...

Spectrum of Engagement - Episode 4: Collaborate 05.05.2026 30:55

For the fourth faculty-focused episode in the CELebrate Learning Podcast's special instructor series, Host and former CEL Manager Rhianna Nagel (she/her) speaks with UVic faculty member Nigel Mantou Lou (he/him), PhD candidate Jess Willows (she/her) and their community partner, Jennifer Lei King (she/her) from the Intercultural Association of Greater Victoria. They discuss what community-engaged t...

Spectrum of Engagement - Episode 3: Involve 05.05.2026 32:20

Host and former CEL Manager Rhianna Nagel (she/her) and current CEL Coordinator Rosa McBee speak with UVic faculty member Erin McGuire (they/them) about what doing community-engaged teaching can look like. They chat about the motivation to teach with CEL as a pedagogy, how to navigate and adapt to changing expectations and timeframes, and share tips for instructors who want to try teaching with co...

Spectrum of Engagement - Episode 2: Consult 05.05.2026 27:24

For the second faculty-focused episode, Host and former CEL Office Manager Rhianna Nagel (she/her), and CEL Coordinator Rosa McBee (she/her), sit down to talk to guest Professor Daniel Hogg (he/him) about his course and how it can include community-engaged learning or not, depending on the student interest and projects. They chat about what community-engaged teaching looks like in his class and t...

Spectrum of Engagement - Episode 1: Inform 05.05.2026 34:05

For the first faculty-focused episode in the CELebrate Learning podcast, host and former CEL Manager, Rhianna Nagel (she/her) leads two faculty members—former UVic professor Nathan Lachowsky (he/him), current UVic faculty member and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Northern BC Aki Gormezano (he/him) and their community partner, Jennifer Gibson (she/her) from Island Sexual Health....

Student Perspectives - “Rooted in Community: Emerging Engineers for Climate Action and Resilience” with Matilde Cervantes Navarrete 21.11.2025 31:30

In this episode, co-hosts Matilde Cervantes (PhD candidate and project manager contractor at the CEL Office) and April Vannini (CEL Coordinator) invite you to learn from Engineering MA student, Shukooh Goodarzi and Engineering PhD candidate Kelsey Shaw, who are conducting community-engaged research. Both students are participants in the Students in Community: Engaging Meaningfully for Climate Acti...

Student Perspectives – “Being Truly Myself”: Queer and Trans+ Perspectives on Community-Engaged Learning with Gary-Grace Ribeiro 03.09.2025 42:24

For the first episode of CELebrate Learning, host Garry-Grace Ribeiro (they/them) speaks with three self-identifying queer and trans+ UVic students on topics such student’s roles as educators in community, the connection between community and self, place and belonging, and how our engagement with community leads to social change. Guests Sam Bottrill (they/them), Eliver Verdugo (they/them) and Mati...