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OMHARN Multicultural Health Conference:
Community perspective – how to advance multicultural research
Community Involvement in Research
None A Lot
Top-down Consultation Collaboration Partnership Community-led
(Adapted from Winer & Ray, 2000)
Suggested Steps in CBR
Background work (‘getting ready’)
Establish the partnership
Collaboratively Design the Research Project
Collect the data
Take Action / Advocate for Change
Analyze and interpret the data
Disseminate (share) your Findings
Training and
Building Capacity(ongoing)
Monitor & Evaluate
your Activities
and Engage in
Critical Reflection(ongoing)
Research Re-defined: Opportunities The emergence of community agency led research is re-defining research relationships, processes and outcomes in new and interesting ways
Academic-community-participant relationship is being reconfigured/blurred in interesting ways
New areas of research priorities
Participatory involvement of community members is being taken to new, deeper levels
Enhanced role of dissemination and advocacy
Critical Issues in Community Agency Led Research Projects
Challenges of promoting equitable relationship between academics and community
Challenges of working closely with marginalized community members
Quality and equity of participation of community
New Ethical Issues/Dilemmas
Strengthening political weight of community agency led research
Other Challenges
Funding Constraints and negative pressures from funding agencies
Human Resources
Access to other resources (eg data analysis softwares, online journals)
Time
Capacity
Incentives and recognition
Best Practices in Research Collaboration
Develop and engage in collaborative models of research design, implementation and writing (results in much richer research questions, better methodology and high quality reports)
Don’t expect community agencies to do all the outreach and recruitment work (there is an ‘institutional cost’ on community agencies to do recruitment)
Build in adequate funding to support/remunerate participation from community agencies and community members (eg admin costs, research time stipend for community agency partners, training costs)
Ensure proper recognition of community agencies/groups for their role in the research (not just as a footnote or acknowledgement but as co-authors wherever appropriate)
Broaden dissemination activities (beyond journal publications)
Get involved in advocacy (don’t leave dissemination and advocacy work to community)
Hire community members (not just graduate students) as community/peer researchers or RAs
Best Practices in Research
Collaboration
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