Toward Participatory Civic Engagement: Findings and Implications of a Three-Year Community-Based Research Study

The purpose of this article is twofold: to explore the entry process in community-based research when researching sensitive topics; and to suggest a framework for entry that utilises the values of participatory action research (PAR). The article draws on a collaborative community-university research study that took place in the Waterloo and Toronto regions of Ontario, Canada, from 2005–2010. The article emphasises that community entry is not only about recruitment strategies for research participants or research access to community but it is also concerned with the ongoing engagement with communities during various stages of the research study. The indicator of success is a well established and trusted community-researcher relationship. This article first examines this broader understanding of entry, then looks at how community research entry can be shaped by an illustrative framework, or guide, that uses a combination of participatory action research (PAR) values and engagement strategies. Key words: research entry, community engagement, participatory action research, mental health and cultural diversity

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Opportunities, Ethical Challenges, and Lessons Learned from Working with Peer Research Assistants in a Multi-Method HIV Community-Based Research Study in Ontario, Canada

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics ◽

10.1525/jer.2012.7.4.10 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 10-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Carmen Logie ◽

Llana James ◽

Wangari Tharao ◽

Mona R. Loutfy

Keyword(s):

Research Study ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Ethical Challenges ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Research Assistants

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Access to conception planning information and services for people living with HIV in Ontario, Canada: A community-based research study

Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies ◽

10.1080/17450128.2011.635723 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 6-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Lise Huynh ◽

Matt Gysler ◽

Mona R. Loutfy ◽

Shari Margolese ◽

Mark H. Yudin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Research Study ◽

People Living With Hiv ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Living With Hiv

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Imagining Alternative Spaces

Girlhood Studies ◽

10.3167/ghs.2019.120309 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 99-115

Author(s):

Anna Chadwick

Keyword(s):

Research Study ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Critical Space ◽

Community Members ◽

Remote Communities ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Sexualized Violence ◽

And Gender ◽

Alternative Spaces

“Sisters Rising” is an Indigenous-led, community-based research study focused on Indigenous teachings related to sovereignty and gender wellbeing. In this article, I reflect on the outcomes of re-searching sexualized violence with Indigenous girls involved with “Sisters Rising” in remote communities in northern British Columbia, Canada. Through an emergent methodology that draws from Indigenous and borderland feminisms to conduct arts- and land-based workshops with girls and community members, I seek to unsettle my relationships to the communities with which I work, and the land on which I work. I look to arts-based methods and witnessing to disrupt traditional hegemonic discourses of settler colonialism. I reflect on how (re)storying spaces requires witnessing that incorporates (self-)critical engagement that destabilizes certainty. This position is a critical space in which to unsettle conceptual and physical geographies and envision alternative spaces where Indigenous girls are seen and heard with dignity and respect.

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Engaged Queer Scholarship: Probing a New Paradigm of Knowledge Creation

Scholarly and Research Communication ◽

10.22230/src.2014v5n3a160 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Nick Mulé ◽

A.J. Lowik ◽

Rob Teixeira ◽

Richard Hudler ◽

Davina Hader

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Creation ◽

Research Study ◽

Engaged Scholarship ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

The Social ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Bisexual And Transgender ◽

Theory Project

This article features a reflexive iteration of engaged scholarship regarding the Queer Liberation Theory Project, a community-based research study with the social justice group Queer Ontario, which involves academics, activists, and artists, a number of whom are cross affiliated. We explore the tensions and challenges involved in developing and creating knowledge via an engaged scholarship process that must respect the historical philosophical perspectives of a social movement as well as today’s academic theories. This article addresses the challenges of developing new knowledge (a theory) that counters a powerful, neoliberal, mainstream segment of today’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements, with implications for society at large. The layered issues associated with engaged scholarship are disentangled, including vulnerability to neoliberalism, navigating competing perspectives, and how academics/activists/artists both understand and engage in knowledge creation.

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