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Participatory community research: Theories and methods in action.Student reflections on community research practices and their implications.

Participatory community research: Theories and methods in action.: Student reflections on... Students often acquire an abundance of experience with various community research practices. Their training may involve applied experiences in the areas of evaluating programs, serving as community advocates-liaisons, grant writing, recruiting participants, conducting interviews, collaborating on research teams, collecting data, and report writing. In these roles, they often spend a lot of time in direct contact with community partners and in the day-to-day operations of a research project. Thus, their comments represent an important perspective that may contribute to the future of participatory community research. The authors, as graduate students, offer a diverse voice, because they vary in terms of ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, regional origin, and level of graduate training. They address the roles of nonfaculty perspectives within the community research arena and the traditional conceptualization of community partners, and highlight important strategies in participatory research methods that deserve continued exploration. They also explore future directions for community researchers through a discussion of the training implications of the lessons learned about collaborative community-academic endeavors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Participatory community research: Theories and methods in action.Student reflections on community research practices and their implications.

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American Psychological Association
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Copyright © 2004 American Psychological Association
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227 –238
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10.1037/10726-014
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Abstract

Students often acquire an abundance of experience with various community research practices. Their training may involve applied experiences in the areas of evaluating programs, serving as community advocates-liaisons, grant writing, recruiting participants, conducting interviews, collaborating on research teams, collecting data, and report writing. In these roles, they often spend a lot of time in direct contact with community partners and in the day-to-day operations of a research project. Thus, their comments represent an important perspective that may contribute to the future of participatory community research. The authors, as graduate students, offer a diverse voice, because they vary in terms of ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, regional origin, and level of graduate training. They address the roles of nonfaculty perspectives within the community research arena and the traditional conceptualization of community partners, and highlight important strategies in participatory research methods that deserve continued exploration. They also explore future directions for community researchers through a discussion of the training implications of the lessons learned about collaborative community-academic endeavors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: May 9, 2005

Keywords: community research; research practices; graduate student perspectives; participatory research methods; community-academic collaboration; training implications

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