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Community Engaged Research

Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)

Four Main Principles

Four main principles of community engaged research strongly influence the interactions between academics and community partners when collaborating on research.

  1. Taking an asset/strength-based approach: aiming to build on the strengths and assets of a community
  2. Bidirectional learning and teaching: partners each bring their own expertise to the relationship and each can learn valuable lessons from the others
  3. Action-oriented: intending to improve community well-being, not only for publication in academic literature
  4. Shared resources and time commitment: partners should openly discuss expectations to agree on the use of resources (including people’s time)

Research Continuum

Community engaged research is a research lens. It is a framework for doing research. Many research designs and research methods can be conducted through a community engaged approach.

Additionally, there are levels to community engaged research, which are displayed in the graphic below.

an arrow shows the continuum of participation, large circles (academics) and smaller circles (community membeers) are connected with arrows, toward the end of the continuum there are interconnected arrows between the circles showing that the efforst go between them in all directions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circles indicate participants and interactions between them: large circles represent academic  researchers, small circles represent community partners.