scholarly journals Moving Parts and Balancing Acts: Building and Maintaining a Collaborative Community-Based Research Partnership in Detroit

2013 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette Roddy ◽  
Paul Draus ◽  
Kanzoni Asabigi ◽  
Erin White
Keyword(s):  
Research Partnership ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
Moving Parts

scholarly journals A framework for entry: PAR values and engagement strategies in community research

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Ochocka ◽  
Elin Moorlag ◽  
Rich Janzen
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
Sensitive Topics ◽  
Collaborative Community

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

scholarly journals More than a Meeting: Identifying the needs of the community-based seniors’ services sector with a research partnership

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Tong ◽  
Joanie Sims-Gould ◽  
Sarah Lusina-Furst ◽  
Heather McKay ◽  
Summit Planning Committee
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Research Partnership ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Community Programming ◽  
Aging Societies ◽  
Older Citizens

Abstract Background : Through a weakening of the welfare state, many economically developed countries have seen a decline in publicly funded community programming. Within this context of hollowed-out services for community-dwelling older adults, community-based seniors’ service (CBSS) organizations have been increasingly tasked to deliver programs to enable independence, health and social connections for older citizens. In response, CBSS leaders have taken steps to organize as a unified sector and have expanded their partnerships with researchers and universities to enhance and track this work. The primary objective of this study was to capture of the current needs of CBSS leaders in British Columbia, Canada, who attended a seminal event in the CBSS sector’s development – the inaugural Summit on Aging (i.e. the Summit). Hosting and evaluating The Summit was a collaborative effort between CBSS organizations and a university-based research team. The secondary objective of this study was to understand the value of hosting the Summit for those who attended. Methods : We implemented a mixed-method evaluation plan, which included: a pre- (n=79) and post-event online survey (n=76); thematic notes from six breakout sessions, 4 large group sessions, and ethnographic observations from each day of the Summit; and a 6-month post-Summit semi-structured telephone interview (n=22). Results : Summit delegates identified key opportunities to strengthen the CBSS as a sector, including enhanced collaboration; improved mechanisms that foster connecting and collaborating; and more resources (i.e. funding, trained personnel) to increase their capacity to deliver respond to current and future service demands. Overall, participants found the Summit to be a worthwhile event; it provided a venue to strategize as to how to meet sector needs. Conclusions : In the context of aging societies and a decline in direct support from the state, we must more meaningfully invest and support the vital work that CBSSs are increasingly providing to older citizens. Here we determine key needs within the CBSS and highlight how an event such as the Summit, can help facilitate collaboration, connections and resources. Our community-based research partnership maximized our collective efforts to robustly capture the changing needs of an evolving sector.

The Ethical Stakes of Collaborative Community-Based Social Science Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald David Glass ◽  
Jennifer M. Morton ◽  
Joyce E. King ◽  
Patricia Krueger-Henney ◽  
Michele S. Moses ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Collaborative Community

This multivocal essay engages complex ethical issues raised in collaborative community-based research (CCBR). It critiques the fraught history and limiting conditions of current ethics codes and review processes, and engages persistent troubling questions about the ethicality of research practices and universities themselves. It cautions against positioning CCBR as a corrective that fully escapes these issues. The authors draw from a range of philosophic, African-centric, feminist, decolonial, Indigenous, and other critical theories to unsettle research ethics. Contributors point toward research ethics as a praxis of engagement with aggrieved communities in healing from and redressing historical trauma.

Community-Based Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 484-517
Author(s):  
Margaret R. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Research Partnership ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Synergistic Relationship

Community-based research challenges the traditional research paradigm by recognizing that complex social problems today must involve multiple stakeholders in the research process—not as subjects but as co-investigators and co-authors. It is an “orientation to inquiry” rather than a methodology and reflects a transdisciplinary paradigm by including academics from many different disciplines, community members, activists, and often students in all stages of the research process. Community-based research is relational research where all partners change and grow in a synergistic relationship as they work together and strategize to solve issues and problems that are defined by and meaningful to them. This chapter is an introduction to the historical roots and subdivisions within community-based research and discusses the core principles and skills useful when designing and working with community members in a collaborative, innovative, and transformative research partnership. The rationale for working within this research paradigm is discussed as well as the challenges researchers and practitioners face when conducting community-based research. As the scholarship and practice of this form of research has increased dramatically over the last twenty years, this chapter looks at both new and emerging issues as well as founding questions that continue to be debated in the contemporary discourse.

scholarly journals Inquiry in Place: Collaborative Research as Strategy for Resistance to Displacement

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antwan Jefferson ◽  
Ben Kirshner
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Education ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
The Face

This special issue of The Assembly contains a collection of scholarly articles focused on the phenomena of place and displacement as they occur in and near public education. These articles contribute to the growing field of community-based education research by instigating thought, discourse, and action that deepens the relationships between community members and researchers in the face of social, political, and economic disruption. Each of the articles published in this special issue demonstrates some of what is possible when researchers situate their inquiry in local communities, focus on outcomes and implications of community displacement, and take on community experiences and questions in order to collaborate on the development and design of collaborative, community-based research.

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