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Community Engaged Research

This guide is intended for faculty, students, staff, and community members who are interested in learning more about community-engaged research.

Introduction

Community-engaged research, also sometimes referred to as community-based research, participatory research, or action research, is "a collaborative process between researchers and community partners with the aim of creating and disseminating knowledge with the goal of contributing to the discipline and well-being of the community" (University of Victoria).

This guide is intended for faculty, students, staff, and community members who are interested in learning more about community-engaged research. 

Street signs intersecting that say Knowledge and Discovery, as well as the translations in nsyilxen. 

If you had to choose one.... by mnlamberson is licensed Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). 

This guide is a work in progress. If you would like to make a suggestion for how we can improve this guide, please contact Donna Langille at donna.langille@ubc.ca. 

Land Acknowledgement

The Vancouver Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

The Okanagan Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation.