A Critical Review of an Authentic and Transformative Environmental Justice and Health Community — University Partnership

Wilson, Sacoby; Campbell, Dayna; Dalemarre, Laura; Fraser-Rahim, Herb; Williams, Edith M.

doi:10.3390/ijerph111212817

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“…COMR prioritizes the community's goal for initiation of compliance and enforcement efforts by local, state, and federal government officials to address EJ, public health, planning, and civil rights violations of existing statutes and laws. Wilson et al (2014) is another example of strategies and outcomes when merging CS with other participatory approaches. Here, researchers applied Community Campus Partners for Health's Principles of Partnership to evaluate the impact of the community-university environmental justice partnership between the Low Country Alliance for Model Communities, the University of Maryland, the University of South Carolina, and the Medical University of South Carolina.…”

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Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore

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Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

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Citizen science (CS) has been an increasingly utilized means by which scientists leverage members of the public to increase the amount of data collected and analyzed. However, the underrepresentation of individuals from certain socio-cultural groups can have consequences that can manifest in the scientific outcomes of those CS projects such as biases in the data. Additionally, this underrepresentation can potentially affect long-term viability and support of CS as a community of practice. CS programs that promote greater inclusivity would likely provide opportunities for communities to define, investigate, and address pressing issues in collaboration with professional scientists. In this paper we discuss a CS project that sought to include underrepresented communities in Baltimore, Maryland using Pandya's framework for inclusive CS. While the project met all of its scientific research goals, translating the CS for broader social outcomes in the community proved challenging. Here we highlight perspectives from local community members and research personnel about the barriers to CS engagement, challenges in translating scientific outcomes to social justice efforts, and opportunities to address these barriers in CS program development and design.

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Section: Implications and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore

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Jordan

LaDeau

et al. 2019

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

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“…Communities are often disadvantaged in decision-making power when given limited resources, or if project funding is dependent on university-managed grants (Dempsey, 2010;Kindred & Petrescu, 2015;Klein et al, 2011;Wilson, Campbell, Dalemarre, Fraser-Rahim, & Williams, 2014). Actual or perceived inequities that inhibit full community participation also include a lack of access to communication tools such as Internet and email, distances between universities and communities, scheduling based on faculty availability (Parker et al, 2012), use of technical jargon in meetings reducing the full participation of community members (Dempsey, 2010;Klein et al, 2011), and attitudinal issues that devalue the contribution of community members within an academic arena (Klein et al, 2011).…”

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This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of an interdisciplinary undergraduate course embedded within a campus–community partnership initiative involving McMaster University School of Nursing, and three urban priority neighborhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Students worked together with community residents and faculty to address selected priority community issues identified by neighborhood members. Using the qualitative interpretive description method, the evaluation explored different partners’ (students, community residents, and faculty) perceptions of the course (SWOT analysis: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as outcomes) as a community engagement and knowledge exchange intervention. Results provide lessons learned and recommendations for future campus–community engaged courses that can be transferred to similar contexts.

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“…Building community partner capacity is featured in several evaluations and partnership guidance. Community capacity building was one of seven elements in the partnership model of Wilson et al [9]. Another one of the ten principles developed to guide health research with Indigenous Australian communities is that capacity building is a main emphasis of the partnership, and they note this emphasis should be backed up financially [33].…”

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“…CEnR has been shown to be especially successful among Native communities because it facilitates the application of tribal expertise and knowledge in research, aligns with some existing tribal research protocols, and increases research capacity among tribes and community partners [6][7][8]. While there are many benefits to CEnR, inauthentic partnerships can be exploitative and further marginalize and oppress communities [9,10]. Therefore, it is important to have additional guidance in establishing meaningful partnerships, informed by both academic and community partners.…”

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“…Few research groups employing CEnR, community-based participatory research, community-academic partnerships, tribal-academic partnerships, and other forms of collaborative and participatory research have evaluated their own practices for success. Methodologies for evaluation include review through the Good Practice of Community Campus Partnerships framework [9]; review through the Contact, Initiation, Acceptance, Success, and Continuation Evaluation Framework [15]; analysis of meeting minutes and a group meeting [10]; analysis of program documentation, partner surveys, and meeting minutes [16]; and post-meeting evaluations [17]. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' Partnerships for Environmental Public Health released an evaluation metrics manual to measure success in partnerships; the manual was based on academic and community partner input [18].…”

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Guidance for Genuine Collaboration: Insights from Academic, Tribal, and Community Partner Interviews on a New Research Partnership

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Vásquez

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As community engaged research (CEnR) increases in popularity and recognition, specific guidance on partnership approaches that are more likely to lead to community benefits is needed. Here, we describe a qualitative interview study aimed at better understanding community and academic perspectives on elements of genuine collaboration within a project’s new community–academic partnership. This partnership involved a large, public, urban university, a tribal nation government program, a small, rural, community-based university, and a local high school working together to develop CEnR on air quality. Interview questions were formulated from a literature review examining the relationships between trust, cultural relevance, and community involvement in research with partnership processes, roles, and strengths. Twelve semi-structured interviews were conducted with individuals from the community–academic partnership: six University of Washington research team members and six community partners. Guidance for an authentic collaborative partnership supported by interview analyses includes incorporating elements of partnership and project sustainability from the earliest phases and throughout; promoting funding mechanism responsiveness to relationship building and community partner involvement in budget decision-making; acknowledging community strengths, knowledge, and expertise and applying them; establishing roles that reflect community partner capacity building goals; and recognizing community diversity and dynamics to promote representation.

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A Critical Review of an Authentic and Transformative Environmental Justice and Health Community — University Partnership

Cited by 27 publications

References 30 publications

Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore

Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore

Street Smarts ↔ Book Smarts

Guidance for Genuine Collaboration: Insights from Academic, Tribal, and Community Partner Interviews on a New Research Partnership

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