Wanted: CBO reactions to participatory research

Posted by on July 19, 2002

[ed note: This is regarding research-based partnerships.]

From: "T.L Hill"

Barbara Ferman and I have been offered the opportunity to write an article for the Journal of Urban Affairs about community leaders’ experience of working with universities doing community based research. We thought we could use this opportunity both to write something that might help others get involved in community based research and to step back, listen, and learn something about how we might improve the our own efforts doing this sort of work in Philadelphia.

To facilitate this, could you introduce us to one or more community partners who might be willing to talk with us about what has worked well and not so well, about the impact of the the university/college partnership on their organization, and about how that partnership might become even more productive. Once you made the introduction, we would ask your community partner whether they could take 45 minutes to have a conversation about the topics outlined in the attached proposal. We would take detailed notes and send copies to them for their correction and comment. And as always with this kind of thing, Barbara and I will keep confidential all the information your partners share confidential and do our best to protect them, their organization’s and your institution’s anonymity. We will also, of course, send ’round a draft of the article closer to publication.

Thanks in advance for helping us make these connections. We hope that these interviews and article will help strengthen all of our efforts to do community based research effectively.

TL Hill
Assistant Professor, General and Strategic Management
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute
Associate Director, Community Development
University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia
Fox School of Business
Temple University
1810 N 13 Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083
215-204-3079 p
215-204-3080 f