Fostering and Sustaining Community-University Research in Changing Times: A Workshop with Community Engagement Experts

On Thursday, November 7th the Community Engaged Scholarship Instiutte hosted participants from a range of sectors to learn with and from international community engagement experts Dr. Emma McKenna (Queen’s University Belfast) and Dr. Henk Mulder (University of Groningen). This workshop was tailored towards those currently engaged in, or interested in engaging in, community-university research and community engagement, including staff, faculty, students, community members, and research practitioners.

Group of people seated at long tables watching a man gesture towards a presentation on a large screen.

It aimed to enable and inspire participants by building relationships and fostering an international knowledge exchange, tackling questions such as:

How can we effectively document the impact(s) of community-engaged research?
How can we be responsible, resilient, and flexible in times of institutional and/or political change?
How can we be responsive to community needs?
How can we use community-engaged work to create policy changes and/or culture shifts?
How can we include students in the research process?
How can we use institutional structures to manage community-university research?
How can we remain independent and objective in community-university research?

There were also opportunities for participants to bring their own questions related to community-university research and community engagement to discuss with the group.

Group of six people seated around a table engaged in discussion; one person is recording this discussion on large chart paper with a marker.

A variety of materials are available from this event, including:

Slides used by Emma McKenna and Henk Mulder to facilitate discussion (attached below)
Summary report with key discussion points (attached below)

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Fostering and Sustaining CU Research in Changing Times - Summary.pdf