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Comprehensive Guide for Integrating Community-Based Research
Below is a link to a 23 page Comprehensive Guide for Integrating Community-Based Research. This comprehensive guide includes handouts and worksheets for integrating community-based researching into your campus community and civic engagement efforts. This 23 page guide covers the following steps:
- Step 1: Introduce CBR to partners and recruit and identify projects from community partners or groups. This dovetails well with the Capacity Building Form.
- Step 2: Simultaneously recruit and identify faculty (have them on deck) who are interested in CBR or research projects.
- Step 3: Work with partners, for example through meetings involving community partner staff member, student, and staff member (as broker) to turn the need into a research question and project.
- Step 4: Develop a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the project, especially so that the focus, scope, timeline, and deliverable for the project is clear.
- Step 5: Manage the project. Once the project is underway, the roles of the staff and faculty member are dependent on the research project itself.
- Step 6: Ensure that the deliverable (from MOU) is met and project completed, assuming things are going fairly well as the team involved completes the work.
- Step 7: Share and disseminate the results in a way that is useful to the partner and to addressing the community needs or concerns. But, it’s okay for the project to help in other ways too.
- Step 8: Evaluate the project.
For more the guide visit: Bonner Implementation Guide for Community-Based Research (pdf).
A Practical Handbook for Supporting Community-Based Research with Undergraduate Students
This Council for Undergraduate Research Publication will help colleges and universities initiate and support community-based research (CBR). This volume addresses the special rewards and challenges in connecting undergraduate students with change oriented community-based projects and provides a roadmap for implementing CBR with undergraduates. It lays out a process for conducting CBR with students, dealing with issues such as developing and maintaining partnerships, developing research questions, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting findings. Guiding questions and practical tips are featured throughout. The final section describes how to develop and put in place the human and financial resources needed to implement CBR across the campus.
For more information visit: A Practical Handbook for Supporting Community-Based Research (for purchase on the Council for Undergraduate Research website).
Resources for Faculty Leading CBR Courses and Projects
Resources for Engaging and Supporting CBR Community Partners
Online CBR Training Resources
- Youth-led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is an innovative approach to positive youth and community development based in social justice principles in which young people are trained to conduct systematic research to improve their lives, their communities, and the institutions intended to serve them.
Other Online CBR Resources
- Living Knowledge Database: The Living Knowledge Network is composed of persons active in -or supportive of- Science Shops and Community Based Research. Living Knowledge aims to foster public engagement with, and participation in, all levels of the research and innovation process.
- Toolbox — This toolbox service will empower new Science Shops and people working in community based research in developing professional standards and enable existing Science Shops to refine and improve their practice through professional know-how. The database brings together relevant documentation on Science Shop procedures, processes and guidelines. Please send us a message, if you wish to contribute to the toolbox.
- Living Knowledge Discussion List: The Living Knowledge Discussion List keeps you informed about news and developments related to building partnerships for public access to research and the international network of Science Shops. It is an open and free mailing list for people that want to join the network or that are interested in building partnerships. Discussion topics can include news, publications, methods, funding strategies, exchange of expertise, conference announcements and call for papers, press releases of Science Shops and other organizations, discussion topics and themes addressed by subscribers. All subscribers can contribute at any time with any frequency. There is no moderator.
