**This event is free and registration is required. Please register below**
Thursday, March 28th
5:00pm-7:00pm
Forest Sciences Centre, Room 1001
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Community based research takes many forms including, but not exclusively, participatory action research. While participatory forms of research have been touted as being a counter to (neo)colonial practices, the methodology can enact power imbalances and replicate the precise inequities that it claims to address. While scholarly research can be a tool of oppression, it can also promote justice and empowerment.
With this panel, “Tension & Cohesion: Finding Balance in Community Based Research,” we are seeking to share stories about innovative ways researchers are involving communities in designing the research process, and troubling the power inequalities cemented in traditional research styles.
Whether you’re an undergraduate student reaching out, for the first time, to service- or community-oriented projects, a graduate or doctoral researcher, or an activist scholar; engaging the communities we study and creating space for their role in determining what they’re asked, and how they’re represented in reports, is a crucial element of decolonizing research practices.
