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Action Research Literature: Themes and Trends
This resource reviews action research book, edited collections, and relevant literature on the following topics: educational action research, appreciative inquiry, community research and engagement, rural and regional development, organizational and systemic applications, and action learning.
The Wellesley Institute
Based in Toronto, Canada The Wellesley Institute is a non-profit research and policy institute that develops research and community-based policy solutions to the problems of urban health and health disparities (“What We Do, Wellesley Institute website). The Institute focuses on issues in five policy fields: affordable housing; healthcare reform; immigrant health; social innovation; and economic analysis. The website contains many resources on projects in these fields, such as an updated section on news and analysis of community health issues in Toronto, research reports, 18 downloadable “flip sheets” (2-3 page documents on community equity issues), and a media room. Within the…
UNC Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars
The Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars (FES) program brings together selected faculty from across campus to engage in a two-year experiential, competency-based curriculum designed to advance their engaged scholarship. Scholars participate in sessions in community settings to learn from Carolina faculty and their community partners. While developing individual projects, each class of scholars forms a learning community along with the faculty and community course directors to support one another’s projects and community partners. The growing network of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars reports outcomes including new interdisciplinary collaborations, successful grant applications and both traditional and non-traditional products of their scholarship.
UCLA Center for Community Partnerships
The UCLA Center for Community Partnerships website on civic engagement is a database of articles/books chapters/conference presentations/relevant websites divided into the following sections: Featured Articles, Featured Books, Engaged Scholarship, Scholarship Focused on Engagement, Student Learning, Institutionalizing Civic Engagement, Community-University Partnerships, Comparative Civic Engagement, and Relevant Websites and Blogs.
The Talloires Network
The Talloires Network is an international association of institutions committed to strengthening the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education that was convened by Tufts University President Lawrence Bacow in 2005. Its first conference gave rise to the Talloires Declaration on the Civic Roles and Social Responsibilities of Higher Education. All signatories of the Declaration have committed their institutions to educating for social responsibility and civic engagement, and to strengthening the application of university resources to the needs of local and global communities. The Declaration “establishes the Talloires Network, with an open electronic space for the exchange of ideas…
Michigan State University, The National Center for the Study of University Engagement
The National Center for the Study of University Engagement (NCSUE) seeks a greater understanding of how university engagement enhances faculty scholarship and community progress. How do scholars engage most effectively with their communities, and how, in turn, does such engagement enhance their scholarship? The Center convenes scholars and community fellows to explore ways of creating institutional support for building truly collaborative arrangements. NCSUE supports research studies and dissemination through publications, a speaker series, conferences, presentations, and workshops.
International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE)
IARSLCE is an international nonprofit membership organization devoted to promoting research and discussion about service-learning and community engagement. It organizes and sponsors the annual International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement.
Engagement Scholarship Consortium
The Engagement Scholarship Consortium is a non-profit organization of higher education member institutions with the goal to “work collaboratively to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship, and designed to help build community capacity”. This website contains relevant news, resources, and information on workshops and conferences.
Community Based Research in Canada
Community Based Research in Canada (CBRC) is a network of individuals and organizations practicing community-based research to “meet the needs of people and communities” (“About Us” section, CBRC website). CBRC has launched numerous projects, developed a declaration, and aims to be an open network that supports work in community-based research internationally. This website contains information about CBRC, as well as a News section providing news items and new resources. Updates on the work of similar networks, such as the Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research (GACER), are provided.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, A Guide to Researcher and Knowledge-User Collaboration in Health Research
This is an interactive, online guide based on the principles of participatory research designed to introduce researchers and “knowledge users” to the strategies of developing effective “Integrated Knowledge Translation” (IKT) research partnerships. Modules focus on developing and sustaining partnerships and carrying out collaborative research. They include many web-based references, which can be used with separately obtainable casebooks.
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU): University Engagement
The APLU’s website on university engagement provides their definition of university engagement, referring to the reports of the Kellogg Commission. It contains links to discussion papers and responses from institutional leaders, as well as search tool to find additional resources relating APLU and university engagement.
Action Learning and Action Research Association
Action Learning and Action Research Association (ALARA) is an Australian network of scholars and practitioners who use action research and action learning to promote “collaboration building, program and product delivery, and whole systems transformation.” This website can be joined to be part of discussion groups and gain access to ALARA resources and newsletters.
The Canadian Geographer
This issue brings together a collection of articles that explore the question: “Does CBPR with Canadian indigenous communities inform and affect Indigenous geography in Canada?” The articles offer a wide range of perspectives on theory, methodology, and substantive content concerning CBPR. The peer-review process for this issue included peer reviews from non-academic Indigenous peoples. Also included in the issue are invited commentaries from two guest contributors, both of whom are indigenous scholars in geography.
South African Review of Sociology
This special issue explores the current state of community engagement in South African universities. The six articles in this issue were presented at a historic conference in 2011 on “Community Engagement: The Changing Role of South African Universities in Development”. The articles address a variety of topics related to the definition, theory, and practice of the “developmental University” in South Africa.
Progress in Community Health Partnerships
This special issue is dedicated to the theme “Building a Stronger Science of Community-Engaged Research”. Despite growing interest in community-engaged research among biomedical and translational scientists, and growing encouragement for community engagement from federal research funders, the publication of work documenting community-engaged research continues to lag. This issue aims to fill this gap, and to provide a snapshot of the state of the science. The selected articles reflect the various stages or levels in which academic medical centers engage with community stakeholders, develop the infrastructure to support them, maintain strong relationships with communities, effectively coordinate with Centers for Disease Control…
Police Research and Practice
This special issue focuses on police-university collaborations. In the past, both police administrators and rank and file police officers were not likely to place much value on higher education, training, and scientific research as important sources of information. The articles here debunk many of these assertions, and open up several new areas for consideration of how education, training, and research can contribute to police work and how collaboration can be beneficial to both practitioners and academics.
Nursing Inquiry
This special issue focuses on participatory health research. The contributors consider, analyze and critically reflect upon a range of topics, including competencies for new researchers, practical challenges of academic-community partnerships, power differentials and politics of collaboration, team processes, engaging patients as experts, sustainable action outcomes, and health disparities.
Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community
This is a themed issue on “Participatory Research and Capacity Building for Community Health and Development”. The articles in this issue represent the possibility of collaborations between university researchers, state-level policy makers, and community-based groups to affect widespread changes in the social and physical environment.
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
This is a thematic issue dedicated to The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN). The articles included share the mission statement of TRUCEN; the history of TRUCEN; examples of work being done in the global academy to advance university-community engagement; best practice programs and activities at TRUCEN institutions; and a reprinting of TRUCEN’s 2006 and 2007 monographs.
Information, Communication, & Society
This special issue focuses on “Community Partnership Research in Information Technology, Management, and Systems”. The articles explore themes related to the nature of community partnership research, academic and ethical challenges in participatory models of community research, working with communities wearing two hats (as academic researchers and community members), community perspectives on community partnership research, inclusive research design and researching with communities of practice. The papers represent a diversity of community contexts and fields in the information disciplines.