Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2023;17(3):485-493.
Although studies have described the power imbalance in academic-community partnerships, little has been published describing how community-based participatory research-informed practitioners can change academic institutions to promote more effective community-engaged research.
This paper describes a university-funded community-based participatory project in which academic researchers and their community partners worked together to articulate, develop and advocate for institutionalizing best practices for equitable partnerships throughout the university.
Findings derive from a collaborative ethnographic process evaluation.
The study describes the integral steps proposed to promote equitable community-university research collaboration, the process by which these principles and best practice recommendations were developed, and the institutional change outcomes of this process.
When universities make even small investments toward promoting and nurturing community-engaged research, the quality of the science can be enhanced to advance health equity and community-university relationships can improve, particularly if based on trust, mutual respect, and openness to accomplish a shared vision.
尽管已有研究描述了学术-社区伙伴关系中的权力失衡现象,但很少有研究描述如何让以社区为基础的参与式研究为导向的实践者改变学术机构,以促进更有效的社区参与式研究。
本文描述了一个由大学资助的基于社区的参与式项目,在该项目中,学术研究人员及其社区合作伙伴共同努力,阐明、制定和倡导在整个大学内将公平伙伴关系的最佳实践制度化。
研究结果源自合作的民族志过程评估。
本研究描述了促进公平的社区-大学研究合作的建议步骤,以及这些原则和最佳实践建议的制定过程,以及这一过程的机构变革结果。
当大学为促进和培育社区参与式研究投入哪怕是很小的资金时,科学的质量也可以得到提高,以促进健康公平,并且可以改善社区-大学关系,特别是如果基于信任、相互尊重和开放的态度来实现共同愿景的话。