Community-Based Research Excellence (CBRET) Workshop

"The workshop exceeded my expectations. I was anticipating some theoretical expose about CBR but boy! I had the pleasure to meet both academics and practitioners from government and non government circles, all engaged and interested in CBR in their respective capacities. Further, the tool presented is thoroughly designed and hands-on. I feel like I can immediately hit the ground running with it and I actually will. I intend to use it to craft my research proposal and my first steps in my partner community this summer. Awesome!" 

“As researchers we have to admit the power in your hands when we design and carry put the community-based projects. This CBRET is a perfect tool for us to check our minds to balance the power with participants. It reminds us that as researchers there is much work for us to do even before we start designing the community-based research project because community members don’t necessarily know our language and we need to work out which language works for them. We need a process to learn from the community members and CBRET provides an excellent channel to do this.” 

"This tool helps to balance the power among people and describes how to work well with all. This is not a math formula, it is really a new mindset for designing and conducting community-based research”

“The CBRET tool is very useful for anyone, such as myself, who does not have a strong background in community-based, mixed-methods research. The structured process helps to shape the processes and questions that should be addressed in order to formulate meaningful research outcomes. I found the discussion along with tool very helpful in developing my understanding of community based research.” 

“I will use the CBRET in every community engaged learning course and every community engaged research project from now on! Specifically, I will use it as a way to encourage discussions with all partners at the entering phase of projects; as a training tool with undergraduate and graduate students to help operationalize and critically reflect on some of the indicators that fit with the principles and practices of community engaged scholarship; throughout and at the end of a community engaged project to reflect on the extent to which I and our partners are living up to our partnership goals; and finally, I will use it as a resource to help inform tenure and promotion committees about what it looks like to do community engaged scholarship. In other words, I see great benefit in this for every aspect of the work I do as a community engaged scholar! Thank you CCRB!”