Skills for Engaged Research
- Start with community-defined problem/issue, and work with partners to turn it into a researchable question
- Build agreement about research questions with community partners
- Align community definition of problem with the state of the scientific literature
- Link CES project to theory and literature in discipline
- Build agreement about appropriate measurement
- Reconcile evidence-based interventions with community appropriateness and cultural knowledge systems
- Share knowledge about academic research with community partners and learn from knowledge community shares about community’s knowledge production systems
- Engage in process evaluation with other team members
- Work with IRB to comply with standards in a way that is consistent with participatory research principles and practices
- Facilitate community researchers receiving IRB training
- Secure funding for research, collaborate on grant development
- Manage tensions between what funding agency wants and what community needs
- Articulate work so that it is meaningful to communities
- Disseminate research results in ways that are meaningful to and benefit communities
- Maximize real impact of research, in terms of social and policy change, and change within communities and institutions
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