Community-engaged research is a valuable, high impact methodology that can contribute to the University of Michigan’s mission of developing new academic knowledge while advancing the public good. Community-engaged research encompasses a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, but what this body of work shares is substantive involvement of community partners in creating, translating, and disseminating knowledge that strengthens the well-being of communities and broader society.

This workshop will introduce you to definitions, spectrums, and some frameworks of community-engaged research, including examples from multiple disciplines, with a particular eye to some particular issues that graduate students face. Participants will consider how to apply these workshop concepts to their own research, and leave the workshop with tools to begin to approach this work ethically and equitably.

This is event is a collaboration with the Ginsberg Center and Rackham Graduate School and is open to all graduate students and post-docs.