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Challenging institutional barriers to community-based research

University of Wisconsin, USA, rstoecker{at}wisc.edu

Those of us attempting to develop truly equal partnerships with communities and community organizations, using the method of community-based research, encounter many barriers. These barriers revolve around who sets the schedule, who determines the labor pool, who controls the product, and who gets the funding. In this article, a case study shows how those barriers exert themselves, and evaluates the success of strategies to challenge those barriers. It ends with a set of recommendations for changing university overhead policies, developing university quality control practices, refining the university IRB process, institutionalizing a flash seminar structure, and training community members to control the research relationship.

Key Words: community engagement • community-based research • community—university partnerships • sociology

Action Research, Vol. 6, No. 1, 49-67 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1476750307083721


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