Post-Tenure Reflections on Community-Engaged Scholarship in a Psychology Research Setting

Autor/in	Jacquez, Farrah M.
Titel	Post-Tenure Reflections on Community-Engaged Scholarship in a Psychology Research Setting
Quelle	In: Metropolitan Universities, 29 (2018) 4, S.87-98 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1047-8485
Schlagwörter	Participatory Research; Tenure; Reflection; Community Involvement; Scholarship; Psychology; Partnerships in Education; Doctoral Programs; Psychologists + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschungstätigkeit; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Scholarships; Stipendium; Psychologie; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Doktorandenprogramm; Psychologist; Psychologe; Psychologin
Abstract	Community-engaged research is a collaboration between academic and community partners to create and disseminate knowledge for both academic and community benefit (Carnegie Foundation, 2018). Partnering with community members in research differs from traditional research at almost every point in the process, including deciding which research questions to ask, who gets funding, how to collect data, and where to disseminate results. At each point, the researcher necessarily compromises control so that the research is more relevant and has greater reach in the community (Balazs & Morello-Frosch, 2013). A recent article in "American Psychologist," the official journal of the American Psychological Association, made the case for equitable involvement of community members in psychological research (Collins et al., 2018). Surprisingly few psychologists within academia are working from a community-based participatory research (CBPR) lens, so the introduction to this research orientation in the most widely distributed journal in psychology marks a major milestone. The authors (which include both researchers and community partners) describe several distinct advantages of community-engaged research that respond directly to the internal-external validity trade-off. In particular, they highlight the potential for community-engaged research to close the research-practice gap, to improve validity of research methods, and to increase effectiveness of interventions. Farrah Jacquez has found these same benefits in her own work. In this article, she discusses her personal experience as a faculty member with a CBPR research orientation and makes suggestions to increase community-engaged scholarship among psychology researchers in similar high-research institutions. (ERIC).
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Update	2020/1/01