Important new piece by Professor Kristen Slack:
Community-engaged scholarship is increasingly viewed as a valuable strategy for strengthening the quality and impact of academic research. This approach involves partnering with relevant groups or communities—those who are the focus of a research study or who may be directly affected by its findings—over the course of a research project. It represents a departure from the traditional top-down, ivory tower approach to research, in which the community is held at arms-length and the scholar is considered the “expert.”
Read the full article at: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/rethinking-research/what-engaged-scholarship-and-how-can-it-improve-your-research