To pave the way for further interdisciplinary research for health we, Farrah Jacquez and Lina Svedin (IRL Cohort 1), have developed a book series with the University of Cincinnati Press. Each volume in the edited series describes silo-breaking research that partners with community stakeholders to do work that will lead to community benefit.
community engaged research
Charting Our Own Data-Driven Path
If you’ve never started your own nonprofit, it’s a lot like everything else. The parts I thought would be hard were easy, and the parts I thought would be easy were hard.
But in the end, it’s about the kids and my state. Right now, we’re in uncharted territory, and no one seems to know how to chart a path out. For me, the answer is data. Data charts the path out. That’s where we’ll begin.
The Social is Harder Than the Media
Social Media Research Dissemination is the applied science of connecting the research and academic communities with teachers, parents, patients, students, policymakers, consumers…. REAL PEOPLE: those individuals, families and communities impacted by scientific progress and discovery. Put simply, social media research dissemination represents a potential threat to power structures that contribute to and maintain inequity, undermine diversity and resist inclusion. This is GREAT news for researchers and community advocates looking to effect change and build a Culture of Health.
Engaging for a Utah Strategy on Homelessness
We barreled across the high desert, five people to a car, training and debriefing as we drove, scouring data and reading other state plans in hotel rooms late at night, and stopping wherever we could for more coffee and chocolate. We did this because we care, and we believe that better policy is informed by local knowledge and that we train the next generation of interdisciplinary participatory researchers through mentoring and modeling. The students did it for the thrill of being engaged in something that matters.
A Reflection on How Structured Dialogue Validates Black Parents
As I reflect on our work using structured dialogue in Guilford County, NC, I become a witness to something happening in Next Generation Academy (NGA). Black parents begin to release some of the emotional burdens they retain from a long history of navigating the U.S. public education system.
Cross Sector Innovation in Early Childhood Research
Three years ago, the first cohort of Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) fellows embarked on a transformative personal and professional journey, stretching beyond their daily work and building leadership skills to drive social change. This year, as they become the program’s first graduates and alumni, we are celebrating all they have learned and the impact they have had in their communities.
