CKI Community Knowledge Initiative NUI Galway

Links and Resources

Online Resources:

Action Research and Action Learning for community and organizational change

Action Research Resources

ALARA - the Action Learning, Action Research Association

Centre for Community based research

Community Links Programme, Dublin

Living Knowledge (the umbrella group for the Science Shops)

National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (UK)

Practicing Community Engaged Research

· Resources for Community-Based Participatory Research

SPEAKS, the Society for Participation, Engagement, Action and Knowledge Sharing

The Centre for Effective Services

Participatory Action Approaches

What is Action Research? The Center for Collaborative Action Research

Guides:

A Quick-Start Guide for Researchers

A Quick-start Guide for Community based organizations

A Manual for Community-Based Participatory Research

Community-Engaged Research Guide

· Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group. Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships

Universities:

Centre for Research in Theories and Practices that overcome inequalities (CREA). University of Barcelona

Community Based Research at the University of Victoria, Canada

Community Based Research at University College Cork

Community Engaged Research at University of Brighton

Science Shops at University of Groningen

Science Shops: Queen’s University Belfast

Journals:

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement

International Journal of Action Research

Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (JHEOE)

Networks:

Collaborative Action Research Network (UK)

Community Based Research Canada; network

Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research

Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society (PERARES). Online Debate

SERN. Social Entrepreneurship Research Network

Articles:

Jennifer Shea, San Francisco State University, 2011. Sustainable Engagement? Reflections on the development of a creative community-university partnership. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement (Vol.4)

Jenny Onyx, Sidney, 2008: University-Community Engagement; What does it mean?. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement (Vol.1)

Marion Bowl, University of Birmingham with Liz Tully and Jennifer Leahy, University of Canterbury, 2010. The complexity of collaboration; opportunities and challenges in contracted research. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement (Vol.3)

Vhonani Netshandama, University of Venda, 2010. Quality partnerships; the community stakeholders’ view. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement (Vol.3)

Bibliography:

GOODSON, L. & PHILLIMORE, J. 2012. Community Research for Participation: From Theory to Method, Bristol, The Policy Press, University of Bristol.

LANTZ, P.M., ISRAEL, B.A., SCHULTZ, A.J., REYES, A. 2005. Community-based participatory research: rationale and relevance for social epidemiology”. San Francisco, Josey-Bass.

SCHNEIDER, B. 2010. Hearing (our) voices: Participatory Research in Mental Health, Toronto, University of Toronto Press (Scholarly division).

STOECKER, R. 2005. Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-based Approach, London, Sage Publications.

WILLIAM, G.E.A. 2007. Community Health and Wellbeing: Action Research on Health Inequalities, Bristol, the Policy Press, University of Bristol.