Community Engagement Studios
Overview
The Community Engagement (CE) Studio serves as a consultative session for researchers interested in getting input on their community-engaged work from a panel of stakeholders who will provide feedback to enhance the planning, design, implementation, translation, or dissemination of your research. The stakeholders (whose characteristics are defined by the researcher) can be patients, caregivers, health care providers, community members, and other non-researcher stakeholders.
Who can apply for CE Studios?
CE Studios is available for FREE across all colleges and departments at UC Riverside including:
- UCR Faculty
- UCR Post-docs
- UCR Fellows
- UCR Graduate students
Those who are interested in receiving feedback from their population of interest on the relevance and feasibility of their research ideas please submit a request for a Community Engagement Studio.
Why a CE Studio?
Many researchers interested in a Community Engagement (CE) Studio might not know how it can apply to their project and may mistake a Community Engagement Studio with a Community Advisory Board (CAB) or a Focus Group. The table below addresses the differences between a CE Studio, a CAB, and a Focus Group. The parameters outlined in the table are to be used as a guide to assist you in determining whether or not the type of engagement you are interested in and if it can be achieved through a Community Engagement Studio.
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Community Engagement Studio
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Community Advisory Board
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Focus Group
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Purpose |
Inform development, implementation, or dissemination of research |
Provides ongoing community input and assistance to the research project |
Qualitative data collection |
Approach |
Interactive discussion where the research team focuses on open listening |
Interactive discussion |
Uni-directional |
Participants |
Community experts identified and recruited based on lived experience relevant to research project themes |
Members/advisors Identified as representative of the public by the research team and community partners |
Research subjects are screened and provide consent |
Facilitator |
Neutral—could be community member not affiliated with the research project and will moderate the discussion |
Usually head of research team or project manager and will follow a meeting agenda |
Research team member uses pre-approved script |
Preparation |
Coaching from research team and orientation for community experts before the studio day |
Orientation for new members and agreement of structure, duties, and responsibilities related to advising the research project |
IRB approval and consenting of research subjects |
Compensation |
Community expert honorarium |
Member honorarium for attending CAB meetings |
Participant incentive |
Use of input |
Participant comments and recommendation summarized by the CE Studio Team may help researcher interpret and apply recommendations |
Feedback directly incorporated into research project though ongoing collaboration and check-ins between research team and CAB |
Participant comments transcribed and qualitatively analyzed |
If you have any questions, please contact Joshua Liashenko via email jlias001@ucr.edu.
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