Relational Dialectics in Community-Rooted Research and Partnerships

Dialectics as Method and Approach in Educational Research

Reciprocal Inuit and Western research training: facilitating research capacity and community agency in Arctic research partnerships

Engaging community partners to work as co-researchers and research assistants for research involving Inuit communities or regions helps to ensure the equitable recognition of community and researcher priorities, mutual trust and respect, participation by local participants, inclusion of local knowledge and local uptake of research findings. However, research knowledge still in development among...

Learning to work together: developing academic and community research partnerships.

BACKGROUND Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been promoted as an important collaborative methodology for addressing local health concerns. However, academic physicians and researchers usually are not trained to work with communities as partners. METHODS Key characteristics of effective community-academic partnerships are examined based on experiences with 2 CBPR projects in Wi...

Development of community-based partnerships in minority aging research.

The Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) initiative was established in 1997 and currently includes six centers across the United States. The model of community engagement developed by all the RCMARs is Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). This supplement explores the diverse methods of partnership building in each RCMAR and highlights some of the successes and challeng...

Building bridges: treatment research partnerships in the community.

Substance abuse during pregnancy continues to affect the lives of families across the United States. Most communities are not organized to deal with the multiple problems that must be addressed when developing intervention and treatment programs for pregnant women. At the same time, many citizens and community organizations may be suspicious of outside investigators stepping in to design outrea...