Challenging institutional barriers to community-based research

Those of us attempting to develop truly equal partnerships with communities and community organizations, using the method of community-based research, encounter many barriers. These barriers revolve around who sets the schedule, who determines the labor pool, who controls the product, and who gets t...

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Published in:Action research (London, England) England), 2008-03, Vol.6 (1), p.49-67
Main Author: Stoecker, Randy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Action Research
Action theory
Barriers
Case studies
Colleges & universities
Community
Community Involvement
Community organizations
Community research
Constraints
Higher education
History, theory and methodology
Methodology
Social research
Sociology
Training
Universities
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Summary:Those of us attempting to develop truly equal partnerships with communities and community organizations, using the method of community-based research, encounter many barriers. These barriers revolve around who sets the schedule, who determines the labor pool, who controls the product, and who gets the funding. In this article, a case study shows how those barriers exert themselves, and evaluates the success of strategies to challenge those barriers. It ends with a set of recommendations for changing university overhead policies, developing university quality control practices, refining the university IRB process, institutionalizing a flash seminar structure, and training community members to control the research relationship.
ISSN:1476-7503
1741-2617
DOI:10.1177/1476750307083721