IARSLCE – Campus Compact: Scholarship to Practice

This session is geared towards field members who are actively involved or interested in the iterative nature of scholarship and practice in community engagement. This could include, but is not limited to, practitioners who want to find avenues to impact the field through this mechanism of co-collaborative work, or researchers who are interested in working with community partners to advance the field with techniques and knowledge that are created by both parties.

We are ultimately looking to create a strong partnership between IARSLCE and Campus Compact, that seeks to leverage the tools, networks, and resources we need as a field to move a collective ethos and agenda forward to strengthen our collective work. Too often, scholarship and research in the field exist in journals and at conferences, separate from the implications of its implementation more broadly in our practice. Some key questions we hope to explore with participants are:

How do we support emerging research and how it is being used in the field?
How do we create a model to create and support these linkages?
What are the most pressing issues and considerations of accessibility and use of data?
How do we allow practice to inform research questions?
How do we create spaces for researchers and community partners to work together in a way that elevates community voice?
What are digestible, accessible communication channels that would improve access to the research, with a particular emphasis on getting the research to communities traditionally underserved/underrepresented?

We encourage people who are curious about these questions, and are interested in addressing what is lost when research is siloed from practice, to participate in this session and, as such, catalyze this broader conversation, movement, and collaboration in its early stages.