Centering Reciprocity and Accountability in Community-Based Research: How Meaningful Relationships with a Community Advisory Group Impacted Survey Development

Community advisory boards (CAB) or groups (CAG) are frequently included in qualitative community-based research (CBR), particularly the early phases of assessing need, impact, and design a project. Projects with emancipatory, liberatory, decolonial emphases include CAGs spirit inclusivity, representation, transformation, truth-telling, participation, but methodological value impact such often remains under-explored reports about research. It is also relatively uncommon to use quantitative In our survey post-secondary instructors’ experiences receiving student disclosures gender-based violence, we used time-limited, task-specific CAG assist development. this report from field, discuss approach inclusion research, which emphasized reciprocity accountability community, explore how directly impacted strengthened study.