Participatory action research with and within community activist groups: Capturing the collective experience of Ireland’s community and voluntary pillar in social partnership
This article presents a Participatory Action Research (PAR) study that constructed an all-inclusive account of the lived experienced of Civil Society Organizations in the Community and Voluntary Pillar of social partnership in Ireland. The authors reflect on the rewards and challenges of using a PAR approach to design and execute the study, and to integrate participants into the research process. Overall, this article shows how the use of PAR can present a deeper and more holistic picture of the experience of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in shaping national-level social policy. Carney, G. M., Dundon, T., & Léime, A. N. (2012)….
Toward community research and coalitional literacy practices for educational justice
In this article, the authors examine emerging directions in their participatory research that point toward coalitional literacy practices as a means of intercultural collaboration. The authors define “coalitional literacies” as critical social practices whereby community members enact language and literacy across cultural boundaries in order to learn from others, be reflective with respect to social location, foster empathy, cultivate affective bonds, and promote inclusion in the service of progressive change. The authors begin by situating their understanding of coalitional literacies in the educational research literature, and then use Critical Discourse Analysis and other analytical approaches to show how their research…
Crossing the divide: Building bridges between public administration practitioners and scholars
This article explores the challenges of improving the connection between public administration (PA) scholarship and practice in three areas: engaged scholarship, engaged teaching, and engaged faculty. Examples of solutions to improve the connection between PA scholarship and practice are also discussed. Bushouse, B., Jacobson, W.S., Lambright, K.T., Llorens, J.L., Morse, R.S., & Poocharoen, O. (2011). Crossing the divide: Building bridges between public administration practitioners and scholars. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 21 (1), 99-112. Full Text.
Participatory organizational research: Examining voice in the co-production of knowledge
This paper proposes the term participatory organizational research (POR) to describe participatory methods in management research. The authors argue that POR has significant potential for management researchers, because it allows unheard organizational members to generate alternative perspectives that can offer the potential for the co-production of new forms of knowledge that are locally relevant. By examining a study of care quality in elder care institutions, the authors explain in detail how POR can enable voice, and also explore some of the structural limitations of the POR approach. Burns, D., Hyde, P., Killett, A., Poland, F., & Gray, R. (2012). Participatory…
We did it together: a participatory action research study on poverty and disability
This article describes a participatory action research project on poverty and disability, and presents the perspectives of both non-disabled and developmentally disabled people involved in the project. During the study, control of the research agenda was shared to varying degrees in accordance with the needs and desires of the members of an advisory committee of low-income, developmentally disabled people. The authors discuss their successes and challenges enacting participatory action research principles, in the hopes of enabling future researchers to be more inclusive of developmentally disabled people in their work. Buettgen, A., Richardson, J., Beckman, K., Richardson, K., Ward, M., &…
Community – academic partnerships: Lessons learned from replicating a salon-based health education and promotion program
This article examines a partnership between the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health (AAIUH), two community-based organizations (CBOs), three universities, and 17 beauty salons. This partnership was created to replicate a salon-based health education and promotion program in African-American and Latino communities in Philadelphia, and its formation was guided by common understanding of four key principles: mutually agreeing on and implementing predefined plans and processes; sharing expertise, resources, and methods; a commitment to building capacity; a commitment to shared credits and rewards. These principles are described, as well as the challenges and lessons learned from both the development of the…
Our community in focus: The use of photovoice for youth-driven substance abuse assessment and health promotion
Photovoice, a CBPR methodology, is one way to effectively engage youth in the assessment of substance abuse and prevention initiatives. This paper describes “Our Community in Focus”, a community-based assessment of youth substance use and abuse that employed photovoice methodology with high school participants. Prompted with the question, “What contributes to adolescents’ decisions to use or not to use alcohol and other drugs?” participants captured compelling photos to reflect community strengths and concerns relating to substance abuse. The authors explore the findings of the research and offer conclusions about photovoice as an effective tool to engage youth in community-assessment projects….
Policies: Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure, and Statements of Mutual Expectations
One of the strategies of the University of North Carolina Tomorrow initiative, with respect to outreach, societal engagement, and both economic and community development, is that campuses set high standards in their faculty reappointment, promotion, and tenure policies that encourage and reward public service by faculty. North Carolina State University addressed these issues in its recent revisions of policies for reappointment, promotion and tenure. The policies focus on definition of six realms of faculty responsibility, development of statement of mutual expectations, and the importance of creative scholarship in all six realms. North Carolina State University (2006). Policies: reappointment, promotion, and tenure,…
Community-based participatory evaluation: The Healthy Start approach
This paper presents a community-based participatory evaluation (CBPE) conducted by the Healthy Start project of the Augusta Partnership for Children, Inc. (APC), in Augusta, Georgia. CBPE refers to a process in which community members perform an integral function in the design, implementation, and review of assessment procedures, and academic faculty take on the role of external evaluators. The APC’s model for CPBE is presented. Reflecting on this model, the authors argue that it improved the relevance of the evaluation process, and shows promise as a reliable and credible evaluation approach for assessment of health promotion programs. Braithwaite, R. L., McKenzie,…
Cellphone diaries: Mobile technology and self-authored digital videos in asset mapping
This paper describes the Cellphone Diaries project, which engaged African-American residents of historic South Park East Raleigh, North Carolina in the use of “smartphones” to document places that had meaning to them in Chavis Park, a neighborhood undergoing rapid change. The project was a component of an effort by North Carolina State University to support a neighborhood revitalization framework organized around a community vision plan. Cellphone Diaries attempted to 1) train residents in the use of smartphone digital videos for individual on-site asset mapping, and 2) compare the results of individual on-site smartphone based approaches to concurrent engagement efforts such…
Working together to improve the lives of people affected by epilepsy in Zambia
This paper describes the Chikankata Epilepsy Care Team, a collaborative project between Michigan State University and the rural Zambian community of Chikankata, which works to improve the lives of people with epilepsy. The author describes the project’s evolution from a local nurse-medical student partnership in one rural Zambian hospital to a program that enriches clinical services and advocacy programs throughout Zambia. Lessons learned about what makes this collaborative project effective are presented. Birbeck, G. L. (2012). Working together to improve the lives of people affected by epilepsy in Zambia. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 16(3), 175-183. Full Text.
Action-learning collaboratives as a platform for community-based participatory research to advance obesity prevention
One model for implementing and monitoring CBPR is Action Learning Collaboratives (ALCs)—short term, team-based learning processes that are grounded in quality improvement. This paper describes how the Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth has used ALCs with three communities as a platform to design, implement and evaluate CBPR. The authors provide recommendations for using ALCs as a method to promote CBPR and evidence-based obesity prevention through a structured QI approach. Bazos, D. A., Schifferdecker, K. E., Fedrizzi, R., Hoebeke, J., Ruggles, L. & Goldsberry, Y. (2013). Action-learning collaboratives as a platform for community-based participatory research to advance obesity prevention. Journal of…
Healthy transitions: A community-based participatory research approach with Burundians with refugee status
This paper describes a CBPR project conducted by the University of Tennessee’s Healthy Transitions program, which partners the university with a local community of Burundian refugees. The project examined the Burundians’ experiences and perceptions during and post migration through focus groups. The authors discuss the impact of the CPBR approach, and conclude that the approach was essential to the productive process of data collection, to the subsequent implementation of culturally-relevant interventions, and to enabling the Burundian community to co-direct ongoing research and programming. Bates, D., Burman, E., Ejike-King, L., & Rufyiri, C. (2012). Healthy transitions: A community-based participatory research approach…
Engineering and social justice in the university and beyond
This book describes the work of international scholars aiming to integrate engineering with social justice, focusing on the role of scholars in teaching, research, and community engagement. From discussing how courses can be designed to encourage engagement, to how scholars are conducting research to improve the lives of marginalized communities, this book features a variety of perspectives on ways engineering can achieve social impact. Baillie, C., Pawley, A., & Riley, D.M. (2012). Engineering and social justice in the university and beyond. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. Full Text.
Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Review Form
In 2001, MSU’s Office of University Outreach and Engagement (UOE) undertook a major revision of the Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Review Form to embed outreach and engagement as well as extension, urban, and international work into the form. A form was produced that reflects MSU’s definition of outreach and engagement as scholarly activity that cuts across teaching, research, and service. The form suggests types of evidence candidates can report on, and chairs and deans review, within the teaching and research sections, as well as a revised community-based service section. Michigan State University, Reappointment, promotion, and tenure review form. Full Text.
Application of a CBPR framework to inform a multi-level tobacco cessation intervention in public housing neighborhoods
This paper describes the application of a CBPR framework to inform a culturally situated, ecological based, multi-level tobacco cessation intervention in public housing neighborhoods. During this decade-long intervention project, community and academic partners used the CBPR framework to guide problem identification, planning and feasibility testing, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination. Successes and challenges of the prevention intervention and partnership are discussed. Implications for other CBPR partnerships are discussed. Andrews, J. O., Tingen, M. S., Jarriel, S. C., Caleb, M., Simmons, A., Brunson, J.,…Hurman, C. (2012). Application of a CBPR framework to inform a multi-level tobacco cessation intervention in public housing neighborhoods….
Communities of practice and participatory action research: the formation of a synergy for the development of museum programmes for early childhood
The paper presents a case study of a community of educational practice formed by the synergy between a natural history museum and a university department of pre-school education, which undertook participatory action research aimed at the creation of innovative museum programs for young children. The case study is evaluated, and the findings show that the community of practice was able to bring situated knowledge into question and interrogate propositional knowledge by means of participatory action research. The authors conclude that participatory action research enabled the community to monitor the implementation of theory with scientific rigor and formulate a new “knowledge…
Community Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative: Review, Tenure, and Promotion Analysis Protocol
This protocol was used by the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative to assess school and university review, promotion and tenure guidelines against criteria established by the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions. For information on the Collaborative go to: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/kellogg3.htmlMikkelsen M, Gelmon SB, Seifer SD, Kauper-Brown J (2005). Community-engaged scholarship for health collaborative: Review, tenure and promotion analysis protocol. Seattle, WA: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, Full Text.
Community Engaged Scholarship for Health
CES4Health.info is a free, online mechanism for peer-reviewing, publishing and disseminating products of health-related community-engaged scholarship that are in forms other than journal articles. For example, videos, manuals, curricula and products developed through service-learning, community-based participatory research and other community engaged work.On this website you will find high quality tools and resources that can be directly downloaded or obtained from the author, typically free-of-charge. Search for high-quality tools and resources; submit products for review; apply to be a peer reviewer; contribute to the field of community-engaged scholarship and the health of communities. All products posted on CES4Health.info have been reviewed…
Translating the complexities of flood risk science using KEEPER—a knowledge exchange exploratory tool for professionals in emergency response
Within flood risk management (FRM) decision-making, there is a growing interest in participatory approaches to engage and integrate stakeholder expertise. This paper reports on the construction of a geographic information system-based flood risk assessment tool, KEEPER—a Knowledge Exchange Exploratory tool for Professionals in Emergency Response. An iterative methodology was used to engage emergency professionals throughout the research process, allowing a mixing of scientific and professional expertise in the co-production of KEEPER. This paper argues that participation is essential both for supporting pragmatic flood research and as a means of enhancing communication across traditionally divided communities. Alexander, M., Viavattene, C., Faulker,…
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