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Community-defined priorities are the foundation of community-engaged research.
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Research Should Be Grounded in Community Experience
Community-defined priorities are the foundation of community-engaged research. It requires outsiders to listen deeply to what matters to the community without imposing external assumptions. Research questions must be defined by the community’s lived experience, not by academic (or other) funding agendas.
What Does it Mean to Do Community-Engaged Research?
Former IRL co-director, Andriana Abariotes, reflects on some of the tensions associated with “people-oriented” and “place-based” strategies. Researchers must recognize that communities have their own internal logic, histories, and ways of defining themselves. Solutions must be rooted in those lived realities, not imposed from external entities.
What Is Participatory Action Research?
In this video, Shira Hassan of the Young Women’s Empowerment Project, a community-based, youth-led project that was founded in 2001, discusses the use of participatory action research in the project’s recent report, “Girls Do What They Have To Do To Survive.”
Engaging New Yorkers in Discussion Around Segregated Health Care: The Health Equity and Access to Care (HEAC) Project
This report demonstrates a broad conceptualization of “community” and the specific means for implementing a community-engaged project on health equity to ensure participation by a diverse sample.
