Mapping roles in research-practice partnerships – a systematic literature review

Sjölund, Simon; Lindvall, Jannika; Larsson, Malin; Ryve, Andreas

doi:10.1080/00131911.2021.2023103

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“…Educational research has relied heavily on RPPs to improve teaching and learning. 12 RPPs are designed explicitly to address persistent or entrenched problems by creating equitable partnerships between researchers and practitioners. Through these mutually respectful partnerships, researchers understand practice context (or community) making the research more relevant and practitioners understand and participate in research increasing data informed interventions.…”

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The Benefits of Community Engaged Research in Creating Place-Based Responses to COVID-19

Dillard¹,

Billie²,

Bell-Rogers³

et al. 2022

Delaware Journal of Public Health

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Objective:The DSU COVID-19 study aims to understand the response to and impact of COVID-19 in nine underserved communities in Delaware and to inform public health messaging. In this article, we describe our community engaged research approach and discuss the benefits of community engaged research in creating place-based health interventions designed to reduce entrenched health disparities and to respond to emerging or unforeseen health crises. We also highlight the necessity of sustained community engagement in addressing entrenched health disparities most prevalent in underserved communities and in being prepared for emerging and unforeseen health crises. Method: Our study is a longitudinal study comprised of three waves: initial, six months follow-up, and twelve months follow-up. Each wave consists of a structured survey administered on an iPad and a serology test. Through community engaged research techniques, a network of community partners, including trusted community facilities serving as study sites, collaborates on study implementation, data interpretation, and informing public health messaging. Results: The community engaged approach (CEnR) proved effective in recruiting 1,086 study participants from nine underserved communities in Delaware. The research team built a strong, trusting rapport in the communities and served as a resource for accurate information about COVID-19 and vaccinations. Community partners strengthened their research capacity. Collaboratively, researchers and community partners informed public health messaging. Conclusion: The partnerships developed through CEnR allow for place-based tailored health interventions and education. Policy Implications: CEnR continues to be effective in creating mutually beneficial partnerships among researchers, community partners, and community residents. However, CEnR by nature is transactional. Without sustained partnerships with and in underserved communities, we will make little progress in impacting health disparities and will be ill-prepared to respond to emerging or unforeseen health crises. We recommend that population health strategies include sustainable research practice partnerships (RPPs) to increase their impact.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Benefits of Community Engaged Research in Creating Place-Based Responses to COVID-19

Dillard¹,

Billie²,

Bell-Rogers³

et al. 2022

Delaware Journal of Public Health

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“…RPPs are often characterized by diverse and non-traditional divisions of labor (Bang & Vossoughi, 2016; Farrell et al, 2019; Sjölund et al, 2022). Bang et al argue that rethinking of our ways of working together is necessary to support transformational change:Opening the desire, possibilities, and hope to make broad scale change in our experience requires ethical relationship building and community accountability, a kind of axiological innovation that is often far beyond the scope of what is imagined, supported, or respected in research.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Political Considerations for Establishing Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Equity: Organizations, Projects, and Relationships

Anderson

2022

Educational Policy

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If the RPP field is to bring our stated commitments to equity to life, it will require engagement with the political dimensions of RPP work, starting at the outset when a partnership is being established. In particular, prospective members must consider how the research process and products might (or might not) lead to more equitable systems. Recognizing that RPP work centering equity sits at the intersection of distinct intellectual genealogies, I argue that research and activist traditions drawing on critical and decolonial traditions—often overlooked in RPP literature—provide particularly relevant insights. Working through questions relevant to the establishment of an RPP on organizational, project-level, and relational dimensions, analyses and examples drawn from scholars, as well as journalists, organizers, educators, and young people illustrate the political considerations inherent in each. I close with implications for new and existing RPPs and directions for future research on RPPs as a methodology.

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“…From a process perspective, RPPs likely have many ways of approaching historical and ongoing imbalances in social and institutional power and how they factor into relationships, processes, and distributions of resources and labor in a partnership. RPPs may engage these power dynamics to varying degrees, including who is involved; how data will be collected, managed, and used; and who makes decisions about when and where to apply for funding (Farrell et al, 2021b; Sjölund et al, 2022). The variety of understandings at play within and across RPPs calls for a framework that presents the underlying logics of equity for RPPs.…”

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Conceptions and Practices of Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships

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This framework explores the plurality of ways that research-practice partnerships (RPPs) conceptualize issues of equity, and with what consequences for what gets studied, whose voices are included in inquiry, and what knowledge is foregrounded in partnership activity. We draw on institutional theory and the perspectives of members from diverse partnerships to create a framework on the beliefs and practices of equity in RPPs. In terms of their missions, RPPs’ conceptions of equity ranged from a focus on individualism and standardization, to advancing goals of identity, culture, and belonging and attending to power, justice, and anti-racism. Equity was reflected within processes for working together, varying across coordination, collaboration, or transformation of roles and power dynamics. For RPPs, the framework can help develop a common language and shared meanings. For future research, it can serve as an analytic lens to understand when and how RPPs work in service of educational transformation and change.

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Mapping roles in research-practice partnerships – a systematic literature review

Cited by 32 publications

References 88 publications

The Benefits of Community Engaged Research in Creating Place-Based Responses to COVID-19

The Benefits of Community Engaged Research in Creating Place-Based Responses to COVID-19

Political Considerations for Establishing Research-Practice Partnerships in Pursuit of Equity: Organizations, Projects, and Relationships

Conceptions and Practices of Equity in Research-Practice Partnerships

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