Collaborative Research Summer Training Institute

Three-day intensive training opportunity to introduce graduate students and early career scholars to theories, methods, ethics, and democratic aspects of collaborative research. Through seminars, roundtables, and hands-on workshops, participants will develop skills and knowledge to begin engaging in equity-oriented community-based collaborative research.

TOPICS:

• Why collaborative research? Why Equity-Oriented Collaborative Community-Based Research (EOCCBR)?
• Building collaborative relationships with community members, community-based organizations, and academic faculty and researchers
• Collaborative methodologies
• Interpretation of findings in a collaborative context
• Publishing and dissemination of findings in a collaborative context
• Equity-orientation of research
• New media and collaborative research
• Public learning processes (community organizing/mobilizing)
• Ethics and epistemology
• Data and democracy
• Feedback & support on your projects/ideas (this includes the opportunity to advance your own ideas & current projects within a community of interdisciplinary colleagues, peers and experienced collaborative researchers (both academic & community-based)
• Examples of EOCCBR

For more information on the Collaborative Research Training Institute, including schedule, click here.

Facilitators will include:

• Chris Benner, Associate Professor of Community and Regional Development at the University of California, Davis
• Robin DeLugan, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Merced, and Co-Chair of Community University Research and Action for Justice
• Ronald David Glass, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and PI/Director of CCREC
• Adrián Félix, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz
• George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Board of Directors, National Fair Housing Alliance; and Chairman of Board of Directors, African American Policy Forum
• Ellen Reese, Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of Labor Studies at the University of California, Riverside

Limited to 25 participants.

There are a limited number of scholarships available based on financial need. The scholarship application period has ended. Decisions will be emailed by 5:00pm on May 1, 2014.

Full refunds can be processed for cancellations before June 1st. No refunds given for cancellations on or after June 1st.

*If you would like to pay by check, please choose the "Paying by check" ticket option, and make check payable to UC Regents, with "CCREC training institute" in the subject line. Checks must be received no later than 10 days after registration on Eventbrite. Mail checks to:

Delphine Foo-Matkin
Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California
UCSC
Mail Stop: Education Department
1156 High St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064