Navigating Partnered Research: Community-Engaged Research
Webinar | March 24, 10 a.m. MT
Get support and guidance for your partnered research projects.
Navigating Partnered Research is a digital series hosted by Research Services to provide support and guidance for faculty members interested in pursuing partnered research projects in the social sciences and humanities.
This multi-part series will cover a variety of support topics and supports ranging from identifying exploring different funding opportunities for partnered research initiatives, engaging with community, building partnerships for research, mobilizing partnered research knowledge and workshopping your concept and research plans with experts from across campus
Community-Engaged Research
Webinar | March 24, 10 - 11 a.m. MT
For this session, we will be joined by Tara Mahoney and Kari Grain from Simon Fraser University’s Community Engaged Research Institute (CERi). Community-engaged research places academic and community partnership at the heart of research work. The session will explore CERi’s new Community Resource Handbook which is a practical, accessible guide for understanding community engaged research. This handbook provides a fresh look at why community-engaged research matters as researchers take stock in a rapidly changing society.
About the Speakers
Dr. Tara Mahoney is the Research and Engagement Coordinator with SFU’s Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERi). She holds a PhD from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University where her dissertation explored emerging forms of participatory political culture in Canada, a chapter of which was awarded the CRTC Prize for Excellence in Policy Research. Her research has been published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, and PUBLIC journal. She has also produced research reports for David Suzuki Foundation, SFU CERi and Apathy is Boring. In addition to her role at CERi, Tara has been an instructor with the Civic Innovation Change Lab at RADIUS SFU, a research fellow in climate change communications at the David Suzuki Foundation and the creative director and co-founder of Gen Why Media.
Dr. Kari Grain is a practitioner-scholar at the intersection of higher education, social justice, and community engagement. She earned her PhD in Education at UBC as a Vanier scholar, where her research focused on local community impacts of international service-learning in Uganda. For the past five years, she has worked as an educational consultant, focusing on experiential education, community-engaged research, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her research has been published in the Journal of Experiential Education, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, and the Canadian Journal of Studies in Adult Education. She is currently a sessional instructor in UBC’s Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education and has been collaborating in varying capacities with SFU scholars since 2017's Community2University Expo.