JEDIA Workshops
The JEDIA Scholar Learning Community aims to support investigators, scholars, creators and researchers across the university by building a welcoming and inclusive environment. The community focuses on the development of opportunities that embrace diversity, equity and inclusion principles through interdisciplinary work. Participants will increase their ability to produce provable benefits of research in the real world (from “Creating Meaningful Impact”, Bayley, 2023).
NSF requires broader impacts as a criterion in proposals and is applicable to other funding agencies who have similar requirements for their proposals.
Broader Impacts is the societal impact of research and why the research is relevant to society.
The Research Strategy and Development Team invites scholars, researchers, creators, and innovators to join the JEDIA Scholar Learning Community, focused on:
- Building skills through workshops on broader impacts, research impact, evaluation and assessment, budgeting and financial planning and other relevant topics
- Developing research impact and broader impacts plans to meet agency requirements when applying for funding opportunities
- Fostering a safe and inclusive space and community of practice for mutual learning, engagement, collaboration and support
Registration
Register below for the upcoming workshops supported by the university’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Impact Grant with matching funds from the Research & Innovation Office. Up to 40 participants will receive $250 for participating in at least three workshops in an academic year and for participating in the Scholar Learning Community.
Please note that participants are not eligible to receive $250 if they have previously been awarded.
These workshops aim to support the lived and individual experiences and achievements of the CU Boulder community and are open to all faculty and staff who are interested in submitting funding proposals. The Research Strategy and Development Community does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, creed, religion, veteran status, marital status, political affiliation, political philosophy, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression in accordance with state, federal, and Regent law.
Please reach out to Dr. Ennis if you have any questions at tanya.ennis@colorado.edu.
Upcoming Workshops
Fall 2025 Workshop Series - Foundations of Broader, Research and Societal Impact
This workshop series is designed as a sequence, with each session building on the concepts introduced in the previous workshop. Attending the workshops in sequence is required to gain the full benefit of the program.
Those who could not attend the earlier workshops must attend a consultation to gain a stronger understanding, as each session builds on the others. To request and schedule a consultation, please follow the link and complete the form.
The goal of this first workshop in the series is to guide participants step-by-step in developing their Broader Impacts Identity.
Participants will learn the definition and categories of broader impacts, understand the multi-dimensional nature of broader impacts identity, and explore how their field, capacity, and societal needs help frame a unique broader impacts identity. Laying this foundation will better position participants in developing broader impacts statements and plans to include in their grant and award proposals.
- Who: CU Boulder Faculty and Staff
- When: Monday, September 15, 2025, 12-1:30 p.m.
- Where: Virtual Via Zoom
(Please use your CU Boulder email.)
This second workshop focuses on developing effective Broader Impacts Statements and on understanding and building partnerships to reach intended audiences. Participants will learn how to write a compelling broader impacts statement, identify and engage their target audiences, and explore strategies for building strong, sustainable collaborations.
The session will highlight valuable resources such as the ARIS toolkit and provide guidance on aligning statements with agency principles and evaluation criteria. By the end, participants will be better prepared to design compelling broader impacts statements that are supported by meaningful partnerships and responsive to agency requirements.
- Who: CU Boulder Faculty and Staff
- When: Monday, October 20, 2025, 12-1:30 p.m.
- Where: Virtual Via Zoom
(Please use your CU Boulder email.)
The goal of this third workshop in the series is to develop a Broader Impacts Plan. Participants will learn how to frame project goals, design activities that align with their intended audiences, and explore foundational approaches to evaluation and budgeting.
The workshop will introduce the Broader Impacts Network partners who support investigators’ broader impacts plans across the university. The workshop will support participants with establishing mutually beneficial partnerships to achieve broader impacts plans. The session will also highlight strategies for connecting broader impacts activities to societal outcomes, helping participants strengthen their proposals with actionable, well-structured plans. Laying this foundation will better position participants in developing broader impacts statements and plans to be included in their grant and award proposals.
- Who: CU Boulder Faculty and Staff
- When: Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 12-1:30 p.m.
- Where: Virtual Via Zoom
(Please use your CU Boulder email.)
Past JEDIA Workshops
To view past workshops and access related resources, please use the link below. Access is limited to participants who registered for and attended the workshops, and an IdentiKey login is required.
2025
The goal of this workshop is to teach participants the components of a Broader Impacts Identity and to guide them step-by-step in the development of their Broader Impacts Identity.
Participants will learn the definition and categories of broader impacts, understand the multi-disciplinarity of broader impacts, and understand how they, their field, their capacity and societal needs help frame their Broader Impacts Identity. Laying this foundation will better position participants in securing grants and awards and with achieving their broader impacts plans.
This workshop is part one of two and will provide an overview of how to plan and generate ideas for broader impact research and activities.
The goal of this workshop is to teach participants how to develop their Broader Impacts Plan. Participants will explore and outline how they, their field, their capacity and societal needs help frame their Broader Impacts Plan and will leverage their passion to grow their broader impacts over time to benefit society and to grow in their career. Participants will learn to utilize valuable resources like the ARIS toolkit and gain insight into the guiding principles and evaluation criteria set by the National Science Foundation. Laying this foundation will better position participants in securing grants and awards and with achieving their broader impacts plans.
This session will provide a deeper dive into how to best plan to evaluate broader impacts projects using various methods, evaluation tool options, and assessment rubrics. In addition, we will connect participants with campus resources for effective engagement successful planning. Laying this foundation will better position participants in securing grants and awards and with achieving their broader impacts plans.
The goal of this workshop is to educate and equip participants with the budgeting and financial planning skills necessary to develop proposal budgets, specifically, budgets for broader impacts projects.
Participants will learn how to plan early and will understand the essential components of a strong proposal budget that considers funding required to implement broader impacts projects successfully. Campus resources will be shared with participants to support budgeting and financial planning. Laying this foundation will better position participants with securing grants and awards and with achieving their broader impacts plans.
- Who: CU Boulder Faculty and Staff
- When: Friday, April 4, 2025, 12-1:30 p.m. MT
- Where: Virtual Via Zoom
(Please register using your CU Boulder email.)
The goal of this workshop is a continuation of developing a Broader Impacts Plan.
Participants will learn about establishing partnerships to reach their intended audience and how to actualize their broader impacts plans effectively with their intended audience. Participants will learn to utilize valuable resources like the ARIS toolkit and gain insight into the guiding principles and evaluation criteria set by the National Science Foundation. Participants will engage in foundational activities for developing a project budget, for creating goals and for evaluating the results of the broader impacts project. We will also review evaluation tool options, an assessment rubric, and connect PIs with resources for successful planning. Laying this foundation will better position participants with securing grants and awards and achieving their broader impacts plans.
This session will provide a deeper dive into effective research “with” and “by” communities building off the Spring 2024 workshop with Dr. Leilah Lyons, an NSF Program Director of the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) Program. Increasing participants’ capacity to center and develop authentic partnerships with communities is the focus of this workshop.
This workshop will address ways to refrain from common transactional practices that perpetuate tokenism and exploitation of communities when engaging with them for research purposes. Developing and fostering mutual beneficial partnerships is the focus of this workshop. Laying this foundation will better position participants with securing grants and awards and achieving their broader impacts plans.
2024
Register below for the first of three workshops supported by the university’s DEI Impact Grant with matching funds from RIO. Up to 40 participants will receive $250 for participation in all three workshops and in the Scholar Learning Community. Please reach out to Dr. Ennis if you have any questions at tanya.ennis@colorado.edu.
- Who: CU Boulder scholars, researchers, creators, and innovators interested in pursuing JEDIA opportunities
- When: Friday, February 2, 2024, 12-1:30 p.m.
- Where: University Memorial Center (UMC) 247
(Please register using your CU Boulder IdentiKey Login email.)
Register below for the second of three workshops supported by the university’s DEI Impact Grant with matching funds from RIO. Up to 40 participants will receive $250 for participation in all three workshops and in the Scholar Learning Community. Please reach out to Dr. Ennis if you have any questions at tanya.ennis@colorado.edu.
- Who: CU Boulder scholars, researchers, creators, and innovators interested in pursuing JEDIA opportunities
- When: Friday, April 12, 2024, 12-1:30 p.m.
- Where: In the C4C Flatirons room (3rd Floor)
(Please register using your CU Boulder IdentiKey Login email.)
Topic: Inclusive Excellence at NIH and Beyond
Learn about NIH and its ongoing projects and the variety of research-related programs NIH supports, as well as ways your projects may align with NIH's interest in fostering a culture of inclusion, equity, and respect for every member of society within the biomedical and behavioral research enterprise.
Biography
Kelly King, Au.D., Ph.D., is an Audiologist and Program Officer at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIDCD is a leading funder of biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language. Dr. King oversees a scientific portfolio for the institute that includes clinical populations, early detection and intervention, improving access and affordability of adult hearing healthcare, and health disparities and inequities among individuals with communication disorders. In recent years, she has been proud to take on a leadership role within NIDCD to address issues of diversity and inclusive excellence at NIH, within the field, and in our science.
- Who: Colorado scholars, researchers, creators, and innovators interested in JEDIA opportunities
- When: Friday, April 19, 2024, 12-1:30 p.m.
- Where: Virtual via Zoom
(Note: you will need to log in to CU Boulder Microsoft 365 to access this recording.)
Topic: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant Opportunities and Initiatives
This workshop is an informational presentation, providing an overview of funding opportunities offered by the NEH as well as tips for preparing competitive applications. General information on several NEH programs will be included, with particular emphasis on Division of Research programs and agency-wide initiatives. In addition to humanities research, NEH also funds "those aspects of the social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life." A question-and-answer session will be included.
Biography
Beauty Bragg is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research, where she is team leader for the Summer Stipends program. She received her PhD in English from the University of Texas, Austin. Before joining the staff at the NEH, she was Professor of English at Georgia College and State University. She is the author of Reading Contemporary African American Literature: Black Women’s Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience, and the African American Canon (Lexington Books, 2014) and has contributed essays to collections such as Literary Expressions of African Spirituality (Lexington Books, 2013) and American Literature in Transition, 1980 – 1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
- Who: Colorado scholars, researchers, creators, and innovators interested in JEDIA opportunities
- When: Friday, April 26, 2024, 12-1:30 p.m.
- Where: Virtual via Zoom
Topic: Conducting Research “With” and “By” People in Communities
The workshop offers the opportunity to discuss strategies with Dr. Leilah Lyons, a Program Director of the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) Program. Dr. Lyons is interested in hosting this interactive session for researchers and community practitioners to engage, collaborate and network, and to review abstracts of funded proposals to understand successful elements of winning proposals. Dr. Lyons stated, “For a really long time, research was done to people and for people. We are in the ‘with people’ era and now we are getting to the ‘by people’ era.” Centering authentic partnerships and communities are the focus of this workshop. Colorado university partners, external community partner organizations, community members and practitioners are invited to attend and participate.
Biography
Dr. Lyons is a Program Director in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL), where she currently serves as the co-lead for the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL), and as a program director for Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) , and for the cross-directorate programs Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL), National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes (NAIRI), and Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC). She was formerly an Associate Professor at the Computer Science department and the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Director of Digital Learning Research at the New York Hall of Science. Her research has contributed to the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Learning Sciences, Informal Learning, Urban Planning, and Educational Data Mining, but has always addressed questions of how we can use interactive technology to help people learn together about complex STEM topics in open-ended settings, and how we can in turn use computers to help document that learning.
- Who: Colorado scholars, researchers, creators, and innovators interested in JEDIA opportunities
- When: Monday, April 29, 2024, 12-2:30 p.m.
- Where: Kittredge Mutlipurpose Room
This session will guide PIs to develop their broader impact identity, the same way one develops their work in their respective research fields. This will in turn help participants craft successful Broader Impact proposals to secure grants and awards. We hope to equip participants with the skills necessary to identify their audience, assets, and partners to develop their BI projects.
- Who: CU Boulder individuals interested in Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
- When: Friday, September 13, 2024, 12-1:30 p.m. MT
- Where: Hybrid, physical location TBA
(Please register using your CU Boulder email.)
This session will provide an overview of how to plan and generate ideas for broader impact research and activities. Participants will learn to utilize valuable resources like the ARIS toolkit and gain insight into the guiding principles and evaluation criteria set by the National Science Foundation. We will also review evaluation tool options, assessment rubric, and connect you with resources for successful planning
- Who: CU Boulder individuals interested in Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
- When: Friday, October 25, 2024, 12-1:30 p.m. MT
- Where: Hybrid, physical location TBA
(Please register using your CU Boulder email.)
This session emphasizes the importance of creating authentic partnerships and focusing on diverse communities in research. Learn about the University of Colorado Boulder’s partners and how to connect with external community organizations and members. Shift your approach from conducting research for and to the people, to engaging in research by and with people, ensuring that community considerations are at the forefront.
- Who: CU Boulder individuals interested in Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
- When: Friday, November 15, 2024, 12-1:30 p.m. MT
- Where: Hybrid, physical location TBA
(Please register using your CU Boulder email.)