Community-engaged scholarship rebalances power dynamics regarding what knowledge is considered valuable through the creation of new tools for data-rich advocacy and through the building of capacity within the university and lay communities. Our contribution to that effort will be to shift the paradigm for scholars to think differently about our own role in creating and using scientific knowledge to solve social problems.
The collaborative and multi-perspective orientation of community-engaged scholarship shifts the goals of research from simply producing “new knowledge” to a focus on mutually beneficial, action-oriented research for positive change.
Community Research
Our Community Research offers a collaborative approach that emphasizes the equitable involvement of community members stakeholders and academics in the research process.
Residents for Respectful Research
Preventing research projects from exploiting low-wealth residents and ensuring that the research conducted is beneficial to the community.
Community Fellows-in-Residence Program
The Community Fellows-in-Residence program is a short-term professional development opportunity to give individuals outside of UVA access to the resources of the university, and to share their knowledge and talents with the UVA community.
Equitable Analysis
Equitable Analysis centers community-driven partnership to provide advocates as well as civic-and private-sector leaders with data and metrics, contextualized analysis, interactive maps and data visualizations, and narrative storytelling.
Support for Community-Engaged Research and Scholarship
The Equity Center re-imagines research with an intentional focus on serving societal goals of social justice.
Work With Us
We work with UVA Faculty, Staff, and Students and Charlottesville and Albemarle community members to redress historic inequities.
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