This poster presentation, represented as a saga, shares the results from a one year pilot project at a Swedish University. The aspiration for the ”Grounded Scholar” project was to create a space for teaching staff (adjuncts) without a PhD to enhance their scholarship capacity. The programme – a combination of workshops and mentoring – was based on a negotiated curriculum model and has so far resulted in six national and international conference presentations, two articles and one book chapter based on the adjuncts scholarly work, with special focus student diversity. The collaborative design of the program seems to be pivotal to the success. Furthermore, the adjuncts have developed their selfefficacy in terms of working in a scholarly way. The project has also opened a door to the international community of scholarship and teaching and learning. Still, the challenge of establishing a scholarly discourse at the university – a matter of both culture and structure – remains.